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General Mach Discussion / Strange X Axis Moves and Hot Keys in Mach3
« on: January 16, 2009, 11:31:58 PM »
I used Mach2 before and getting my feet wet with Mach3. I have a new setup and have a couple very weird problems that I cannot understand. Maybe someone can point me in the right direction?
1. The X axis on my system is not smooth when I use the up / down keys for moving in the Motor Tuning setup menu. It's always the X axis and if I have confirmed it's nothing to do with the stepper motor as I have moved them around to different X, Y, Z outputs and even (believe it or not) changed out the main Xylotex board because I thought it was bad. Nope, it wasn't bad. I reinstalled the latest version of Mach 3 and still the same thing. Also, I changed out the printer / LPT1 cord.
What happens in motor tuning is the X axis runs erratically and sounds like something is terribly wrong. However when I run a G-Code program it then sounds normal. This is driving me bonkers and curious if anyone has seen this before? Or has any good suggestions?
2. This is probably a dumb question but I cannot get the Hot Keys to work. I went into the Config and set them up, i.e. you push X and it gives it a number such as 88 or whatever. When I go into the regular screen and then push X nothing happens. What am I missing here? I'm guessing there is some magical button or check mark here? Could someone please point me to the right direction. I could set this up (almost) in my sleep in Mach 2 but not getting Mach 3 just yet..
Thanks for your help and suggestions which hopefully don't include that I'm a stupid user!!
1. The X axis on my system is not smooth when I use the up / down keys for moving in the Motor Tuning setup menu. It's always the X axis and if I have confirmed it's nothing to do with the stepper motor as I have moved them around to different X, Y, Z outputs and even (believe it or not) changed out the main Xylotex board because I thought it was bad. Nope, it wasn't bad. I reinstalled the latest version of Mach 3 and still the same thing. Also, I changed out the printer / LPT1 cord.
What happens in motor tuning is the X axis runs erratically and sounds like something is terribly wrong. However when I run a G-Code program it then sounds normal. This is driving me bonkers and curious if anyone has seen this before? Or has any good suggestions?
2. This is probably a dumb question but I cannot get the Hot Keys to work. I went into the Config and set them up, i.e. you push X and it gives it a number such as 88 or whatever. When I go into the regular screen and then push X nothing happens. What am I missing here? I'm guessing there is some magical button or check mark here? Could someone please point me to the right direction. I could set this up (almost) in my sleep in Mach 2 but not getting Mach 3 just yet..
Thanks for your help and suggestions which hopefully don't include that I'm a stupid user!!