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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Mach3 Turn-ATC M6 Error "M6Start unexpected ERROR TRAP!"

« on: August 18, 2020, 06:35:49 PM »

Check out the screen shot.
- The Title on it is:   "Control RESET, Tool change Aborted"   
- It's in the form of a MsgBox... with an OK.. wonder where this can be being called?   Mach?

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VB and the development of wizards / Mach3 Turn-ATC M6 Error "M6Start unexpected ERROR TRAP!"

« on: August 18, 2020, 03:31:36 PM »

Group,

I am getting the following error:  Mach3 Turn-ATC M6 Error "M6Start unexpected ERROR TRAP!"

Any ideas on what might be causing this?

The ATC works most of the time.. then it gets this error.... then it stops working  via M6 command.
I can move the turret with a  G1 A120 F6000 (For example) from the MDI....

Any ideas are appreciated.

Joe

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VB and the development of wizards / Mach3 Turn - Has Mach3-MILL Wizards installed? How to change ?

« on: August 16, 2020, 08:10:29 AM »

Hi Group,

- Well, in getting my DM-3000 running, I re-installed Mach3-TURN.
- However, the wizards are from Mach3-MILL.

- How do I get the Mach3-TURN Wizards Back into Mach3-TURN?

Thanks for any help.

Joe
Romeo, Michigan, USA

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Mach3 Lathe Automatic Tool Turret Help needed.--- SUCCESS !!!!

« on: August 15, 2020, 09:38:56 PM »

SUCCESS!!!
- I finally wrestled this down and got it sorted out.
- Thank Goodness for the true genius of Art Fennerty when he programmed Mach3!!!!
- I have the DynaMechtronics DynaMyte DM-3000 lathe turret working in a uni-directional mode.
- The machine has a solenoid that pulls the locking pawl out of the way for bi-directional mode... but it was operating in an always active mode-  which kept the turret from locking into place.    I just removed power from the solenoid for now - and let the spring activated pawl lever lock the turret into place on its reverse movement.
- I even figured out how to reset the DRO for the angular position.  As the turret has to back up / turn in the opposite direction (CCW) - when the pawl locks there is a "hard stop".. and you lose a few steps (no encoder on this baby)... this loss results in error that is accumulated with every tool change.
- So - its working in a uni-directional fashion - which is good enough for now.
- Now to get Fusion 360 CAM/Manufacture to ouput code..and get the machine running (after setting up the Mac3 tool table with the correct offsets, of course).

Joe
Romeo, Michigan, USA

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Mach3 Lathe Automatic Tool Turret Help needed.

« on: August 09, 2020, 11:12:06 PM »

Thank You, Dale.
- I forgot to mention that the lathe came with a screenset made by Calypso.. It don't think that its has that DRO feature... at least not that I've found.  I will check!
- I think I'm going to get Mach3 Turn running... on this machine... I think its better than Calypso screens.  Maybe not as artsy..but I'm not sure what that Calypso gives me that I really need.

Thank You for your help!
Joe
Romeo, Michigan, USA

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VB and the development of wizards / Mach3 Lathe Automatic Tool Turret Help needed.

« on: August 09, 2020, 08:06:06 PM »

Hi Group,
- I've looked through the thread and haven't found anything exactly like what I need.
- I purchased a lathe that was already converted to Mach3 CNC.
- The seller is not very helpful, but he did do the conversion.

- The Tool Turret does not have a home switch.  I only use it in a one-direction of rotation mode.
- There are times when Mach3 forgets what position the turret is in (I know-I need to sort that out, and add a home switch..)

- The M6 macro looks pretty standard compared to other M6 ATC Rotating Tool Turret macro's (from what I can tell, anyhow).

- Is there a way that I can tell it what tool position it is on- or set it?

- For instance it "thinks" it is in tool position #1 -- when in reality it is in tool position #4.   
- Is there a way to reset it to thinking it is in Tool position #4 ?
    - Somewhere other than in writing it into the M6 macro, and taking it out:      SetCurrentTool( 4 )

Thanks for any help.   I am new to Mach3 programming - but have done a good bit of VB a longggg time ago.

Joe

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LazyTurn / How to find the latest version of "Lazy Turn" ?

« on: July 08, 2020, 06:44:36 PM »

Hi,
- I am getting back into CNC after a long period away.
- I want to try to mess around with Lazy Turn on my Mach3 powered Lathe

- Can anyone tell me where to find the latest version?
- What else is needed?

Thank you for your help,
Joe

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Video P*r*o*b*i*n*g / Re: Video Edge Finder

« on: November 15, 2011, 05:26:04 PM »

Hey - can you post your camera mount and modifications?
Maybe a picture or something.

I have both a web cam and a USB Microscope that I'm going to try to create a mount for.

Thanks for any help,

Joe

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn Question: How do I set the "Stock Diameter" ?

« on: October 02, 2011, 04:44:03 PM »

Will Do, Rich.

BTW - Changing Stock Diameter - P31 of 50 in main manual.

Still trying to figure out how to do the rough section of the shank (or just how to better control the cut path...)  but I'll check into your example next

Thanks again

Joe

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn Question: How do I set the "Stock Diameter" ?

« on: October 02, 2011, 10:03:54 AM »

Hey Rich,

Actually I have printed the manual out and skimmed/read through it a couple of times....
(excellent job on the manual by the way...)
I just have to become more familiar with software and manual

I'm reading through all the forum postings right now

Still haven't found out how to control the toolpath down the rough

Joe