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General Mach Discussion / Mach 3 Screen Lockout Buttons/Customize

« on: November 12, 2020, 10:41:55 AM »

Hi,

Is there any way I can customize or lockout certain buttons on the Mach 3 screen? For example, I would need full access to all of the buttons/menu items when troubleshooting/debugging. However an operator running the machine in production would only need access to the cycle start/stop, pause, load g-code buttons. Since there are so many buttons and menu items, the operator could easily press something by accident and cause a mess. I would like to prevent this from happening.

Thanks in advance!

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General Mach Discussion / Mach 3 Programming Question

« on: October 21, 2020, 04:03:07 PM »

Hi,

I have 2 programs that are nearly identical to each other (mirror images). The designs were made in Cut2D and then the coding was transferred over to Mach 3.

Program 1 does what it's supposed to at the end. Air turns off, tooling stops and goes back to the home position.

Program 2 for some reason does not stop at all. Instead it goes back to the start point (not even the home position) and starts over. It's like it's stuck on repeat.

Any idea why this would be happening? Is it a bug in the code? A setting in Mach 3 that would make the program start over automatically? I'm sure you can tell by now that I'm new to this software so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!