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Mach4 General Discussion / Pause loaded cycle after certain amount of time

« on: September 27, 2018, 05:53:50 AM »

Hi,
Is there a setting in Mach4 that could pause the cycle after a certain time from the start of the cycle, I have build a plasma table and in the plasma cutters specs there is a 40% duty cycle per 10min, at around 5-6mins the thermal relay on the transformer trips and the torch turns off, so I would like to pause the cycle at the 5min mark. I know it would be possible to add a pause in the g-code but the feedrates change depending on the thickness of the plates cut so that isn't a viable option. Also the cutter is old enough that there are no output signals to use as a trigger of a pause, but if there is no time option in Mach4 I could wire a signal output using the thermal trip LED the cutter has.

Thanks
Oscar

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Mach4 General Discussion / Toolpath not showing on custom profile

« on: August 03, 2018, 04:51:51 PM »

I am building my first cnc plasma cutter and installed Mach4 and the CSMIO/IP plugin, if it matters, and made a custom profile according to its instructions, the settings were mostly for the hardware setup and units. The problem is when I load a G-code on that profile I can't see the toolpath but if I open the default Router profile and load the g-code the toolpath is visible, am I missing something?

Thanks
Oscar