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General Mach Discussion / Selecting pulley under Vb or Brains

« on: February 21, 2016, 05:16:18 PM »

is it possible to select pulley1 or pulley2 in Brains or VB?
i have a lathe with a gearbox and i can switch between two gears. I need to tell mach in what gear is the gearbox so it can apply a proper PWM pulse on the output.

Thank you!

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General Mach Discussion / Spindle or index

« on: February 08, 2016, 06:27:54 PM »

Hello!

i'm working on a lathe. For threading i need to time the spindle and i came caross two inputs. Timing and Index.
Can anyone please explain to me what is the difference?

Thank you!

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Brains Development / Zooming on brains

« on: February 06, 2016, 05:39:23 PM »

Hello!
I have run into a problem. I'm writing some brain functions for my lathe. And the brains became big and now i can't see what values i'm vriting into my blocks. Is there a way to zoom into some parts of the brain blocks?
And also does anyone experience problems with the - button? i can't seem to delete blocks?
Thank you!

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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Screen4 strange behaviour

« on: February 04, 2016, 09:01:25 AM »

Hello im trying to edit some screens in Screen4. When i open a lset file i san select buttons and images in the screen, but as soon as i move a button i can't select it anymore.
Does anyone else experience this strange behaviour?
im using Win 8 and the latest Screen4

Thank you!

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VB and the development of wizards / VB scripts and Brains

« on: January 29, 2016, 05:43:41 PM »

Hello everybody!

This is my first post on the forum.

My friend has a lathe with a 12 position toolchanger. The machine is quite old and has a an outdated control computer. He asked me if we could upgrade it.
For the past few weeks i have been writing VB scripts and brain logic and changed the screen. everything was working perfectly when bench testing.
Now i got a Smoothstepper and when i configured it i get alot of errors.

The thing is im using OEMTriggers as internal variables to send bits from VB scripts to Brains. i don't use them as inputs to the outside world. But smoothstepper's plugin does not like that.
If i dong configure the OEMTriggers i get errors from the smoothstepper plugin.

My question is how can i send bits from VBscpripts to Brains and vice versa without using OEMTriggers?

This is a section from my M6start.m1s

DeActivateSignal(OUTPUT3) 'tool found
   While Not IsActive(OEMTRIG2)
     Message ("Waiting for confirmation - tool lock ")
     Sleep(100)
   Wend
   Message ("Tool ready")
   End If

The OEMTRIG2 is set high by the Brain and the Brain gets the signal from modbus.

What can i use instead of OEMTRIG or INPUT or OUTPUT. so i can link Brains to VB scripts?

Thank you.