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Newfangled Mill Wizard / Polyline

« on: February 03, 2018, 04:09:31 PM »

This "feature" was first mentioned way back in 2015 or so. It is now in 2.0.4 but it is still "in the test phase".

How is this supposed to work? There is no help available and the user interface is confusing to say the least.

I was hoping for a simple path generator to get code to cut a simple rebate on the edge of the material.

i.e. io want to cut a 6 mm wide 4mm deep rebate with a 12 mm end mill. I am surprised that this Wizard does not support such simple operation. After all it has a slot facility that will cut a wide slot with a small cutter but not a simple slot just using the cutter. (This was first mentioned years ago).

You are probably aware that the help file list of contents does not agree with the actual implementation? Why is this?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Glad |I asked first

« on: February 01, 2018, 08:58:38 AM »

I had settled on Mach4 and PMDX-416 motiion controller.

However PMDX told me that this combo doesn't support backlask correction "YET"!!

So what USB controllers support backlash compensation with M4?

 bit baffling when you consider that Mach3 supported backlash correction all those years ago

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General Mach Discussion / Mill Wizard 2.0.4x

« on: January 31, 2018, 07:06:43 AM »

As a precursor to buying Mach4/PMDX setup decided to purchase the little MillWizzard package.

Anyone else using this as I failed to find any hits with the search engine.

I just wanted something simple to generate g-code (without the complexity of Fusion 360 generated code!!)

I have noticed a few quirks shall we say!

Will, Malahide.ie

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Mach4 General Discussion / mcLua reference

« on: January 28, 2018, 05:59:53 AM »

Reading about macros and scripts and the like. What I can't find is the reference to the mcLua classes, objects and data.

Surely people must go to a source document to find names like

mc.mcAxisSetPos(inst, AxisID, doubleVal)

and

mc.mcSignalGetHandle(inst, mc.ISIG_MOTOR01_HOME)

Will

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Mach4 Plugins / Plugin File extensions

« on: January 26, 2018, 05:40:15 PM »

Hi just starting out with the Demo version of Mach4:  4.2.0.3481

Decided to try to load the PMDX-416 driver. Not the easiest but I got the driver loaded into the correct directory: Mach4Hobby\Plugins.

Then tried to add the plugin. Mach4 says the directory does not contain plugins!! What??

Reason simple:

The open dialog box is looking for files *.m4plugw

The actual files are *.M4PW

Spot the bug cn ye?