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HiCON Motion Controller / Mach4 update

« on: June 22, 2022, 07:35:20 AM »

Greetings from CapeTown
decided to update Mach4....luckily kept copies and the copy still works....
But Mach4 version2 cant seem to initiate the Icon Integra card.
The visiDevice manager sees the card and everything so not sure what's happening?
I just see a black screen running in background complaining about not communicating with card
anybody that can maybe help or have overcome this?.

kind regards
Marne

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Mach4 General Discussion / Mach 4 M6 setup

« on: April 11, 2022, 09:00:48 AM »

Good morning All
I have a custom build 5axis foam sculpting machine and keep improving on machine.
Up to now I have been measuring tool length manually but its time to ad a auto tool length measure system.

I copied a a M6 macro and integrated the probe to my controller and Mach4....works perfect.....but, there is always a but.
to have the probe out of the way it sits below G54...-115mm to be exact. the math in mach4 or my macro seems to have  hard time with this negative value. I did a test and moved Probe in positive direction and then M6 works perfectly.
Can anybody shed some light on how to handle the negative value?
Gauge block Hight Maybe?

Thank you on advance
Kind regards
Marne

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Mach4 General Discussion / MACH4 4th axis Limit switch

« on: November 04, 2020, 12:46:33 AM »

Good morning All

I have done some searching on the forum but cant seem to locate anybody that needed help with Rotary Axis Limit switches.

I'm needing the limit switch to be active during homing(this works) but then during normal rotary operation the axis should be able to roll past 360degree without triggering the home sensor or at least ignore it.

How do I go about this? any help will be greatly appreciated.

thank you in advance
Kind regards
Marne

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HiCON Motion Controller / 5 axis machine build

« on: October 07, 2020, 10:48:52 AM »

Good Morning
I'm having issues with stop start movement of rotary C axis on from Mach4 when cutting continues 5 axis movement but also rotary and 3axis movement.
I have done the usual G64 ......fiddled with motor tuning(A LOT) and code from Cam.

anybody running 5axis machines that can shed some light?

kind regards
Marne

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Mach4 General Discussion / Mach4 5 Axis RTCP

« on: June 24, 2019, 02:59:45 AM »

Good Morning All
New to forum and only finding Mach3 posts about 5 axis

was wondering....how does Mach4 handle 5 axis tool specifically RTCP? (I see there is a plugin for Mach3)

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards
Marne