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General Mach Discussion / Re: how to disable the toolpath display
« on: October 15, 2009, 05:55:55 PM »
Hood sorry i did not put the file in the actual macro/profile folder i just put it in the root of the mach3 folder where i was running the xml from. it worked great thanks for your help...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: how to disable the toolpath display
« on: October 15, 2009, 05:24:49 PM »
Hood i just tried it and i see that the status called the initialization macro but nothing happens. if i look at the "toolpath on/off" button it is still on.

in my initialization string i have "G80 m111" in the general config screen. i tried just the m111 but that did not work.

thanks
James


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General Mach Discussion / Re: how to disable the toolpath display
« on: October 15, 2009, 04:18:10 PM »
Open notepad and put the following in it

If GetOemLED(27) Then
DoOemButton (132)
Else
End
End If

Name it m111.m1s or similar and save it in your profiles macro folder. Next put m111 in the initialisation line on the general config page.
Each time you start Mach the macro will look at the LED for the toolpath and if its on it will press the button to disable it, if its not on then it will do nothing. When you initially start Mach it will probably be on but as soon as you press Reset it should shut off.

Hood


great i will try this tonight when i get home, thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / how to disable the toolpath display
« on: October 15, 2009, 03:32:31 PM »
this weekend i tried cutting a high res lithopane and after i generated the g-code the file was about 80mb and had roughly 3.3 million lines. i found the option on the settings screen to turn off the toolpath but this keeps getting reactivated everytime i start mach3 back up again. when trying to load this file it also takes about 5 min to load and if i don't have the toolpath disabled the cnc looses steps all over the place...

how can i disable this so it does not get activated everytime i start mach3 since i really don't use it anyway..

thanks
James

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General Mach Discussion / Re: PC Lockup with Mach3
« on: July 21, 2009, 02:26:10 AM »
well after running the current setup with xp and the router off i ran my 116K line job twice and both times it locked up. so i just took a quick image of the machine and reformatted and installed vista business x86. after installing i ran the same job 2 more times and this time no lockups so far, i will probably run a few more just to be safe.. not sure what the problem in xp was but vista seems to be working fine but only time will tell...

thanks
James

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General Mach Discussion / Re: PC Lockup with Mach3
« on: July 20, 2009, 03:15:03 PM »
it is an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe board with crucial memory sticks..


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General Mach Discussion / Re: PC Lockup with Mach3
« on: July 20, 2009, 12:42:30 PM »
Jeff never thought it might be the router i am using (pc 7815) i will try it without it turned on to see if there is a noise problem.. i will have to try it tonight when i get home..

thanks
James

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General Mach Discussion / Re: PC Lockup with Mach3
« on: July 20, 2009, 10:39:51 AM »
jimpinder the entire pc locks up, no CTRL+ALT+DEL, keyboard or mouse functionality and only a hard power cycle will bring it back.  i think teh G-code is ok, even the demo roadrunner locked it up. the other g-code was generated from aspire. simple test v-carve sign and others.

Jeff_Birt all my cables are shielded and as for the computer i have it isolated to a APC UPS to help in the isolation and interruption of power. the BOB i am using is the PDMX-132.

thanks
James

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General Mach Discussion / PC Lockup with Mach3
« on: July 19, 2009, 10:31:24 PM »
this week after trying to actually cut something on my newly built machine i found that while in mach3 and running the g-code the computer would randomly lock and only a hard power cycle would bring it back. i started doing some research and seen the xp optimization doc, so i reformatted the computer and installed xp pro as a standard pc. once i reinstalled the pc and all the basic drivers to function i installed mach3 and tried cutting again, well it locked up 2 different times. if i have mach3 closed and just in the os i have left it on overnight and no lockups.

can someone point me to any fix or suggestions? or should i reinstall vista 32bit and try that?

the pc was my workstation that i just upgraded from so i know it is known good, it is a p4 3.4mhz with 4gig memory.


thanks
James

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Gantry Squaring Setup/Help
« on: July 01, 2009, 12:06:51 AM »
greg not sure, i just made all the changes that were recommended except the angular setting and it worked.  i probably should have tested one at at time  :-[

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