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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Slave Axis problems.

« on: August 19, 2013, 09:00:49 AM »

Hello,

Have you made a special script to test prox switches on both drives to square the gantry when homing ?

Kind Regards,
DAniel

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: More dual axis homing issues

« on: August 19, 2013, 08:55:55 AM »

Hello, I have the same problem. Did you get a solution ?
Maybe a custom script has to be made ? Just to drive separately each drive ?

Kind Regards,
Daniel

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Getting up and running in Vista

« on: December 08, 2009, 08:02:11 AM »

Hi,
I have a customer that runs Vista.
We have followed the procedure to run MAch3 on Vista but unfortunately doesn't receive the message "Driver Successfully Initialized".

I have adviced to stop print spooler service (once was working for me) but this didn't help.
I suspect that it's somewhere a service that gets the handle of parallel port and because of that MAch's pulse engine doesn't manage to start.

Any advices ?
I have seen a fellow that said that he has unistalled / disabled unneeded features under Vista. What would be ?

Regards,
Daniel

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: What FPGA uses SmoothStepper ?

« on: October 24, 2009, 02:21:39 AM »

Obviously I'm learning CPLD and FPGA.
Until now I have played with a CPLD based stepper driver, dro with quadrature input it's next.

I'm interested to find out what of fpga it's used to find out how many macrocells are needed for this application, how it's implemented ? It's just a fifo ? Or it's implementing some interpolation algorithm ?

Daniel

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SmoothStepper USB / What FPGA uses SmoothStepper ?

« on: October 23, 2009, 08:10:11 AM »

Hi,
I have understood that it's a Xilinx but exactly which one ?
Could anyone tell me ?
10X
Daniel

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General Mach Discussion / mesanet anything i/o HostMot2 usb 2 parallel in Mach3 ?

« on: March 11, 2009, 04:51:07 AM »

Hi,
It seems that on linux it's supported a more cost effective board :

http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?EMC2_Supported_Hardware

http://www.mesanet.com/

Does anybody has an ideea if it was any intention to implement a driver for this board in Mach3 ?

REgards,
Daniel

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Finished Plugins for Download / Modified Video plugin

« on: August 09, 2008, 05:49:40 AM »

Slightly modified Video plugin. The web cam is mounted next to Z axis and takes care of distance between cam and spindle.

Hole application has been done to drill on a CNC pcb made using toner transfer.
Explanatory article can be found at http://www.dioda.ro/News/article/sid=21.html

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Mach3 Plugin Tutorial Document and Prototype File Set

« on: July 23, 2008, 07:23:56 AM »

@jemmyell - first of all thank you for continuous support.
Following your tutorial I was able to develop more my plugin and I hope that I will post it soon.
(it's about cnc drilling for toner transfer built pcb's)

I had a problem and found that scripter.loadfile cannot be called in body of a procedure wich is overriding the WndProc method (to trap the window messages).
On WndProc I save the string received and on form timer I will call scripter.LoadFile.

Daniel

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General Mach Discussion / height scan map - engraving, pcb routing

« on: July 14, 2008, 10:19:50 AM »

I have seen this height probe sensor  :

http://www.boenigk-electronics.com/web/en/tools.html

and their cnc controller has also the capability to load a height scan map and compensate the Z axis.
Sometimes I do some pcb engraved and I have few friends which are engraving workpieces with irregular surface .

Such option would be very useful. Anyone has any ideea if this exist or how could be done ?

REgards,
Daniel

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Mach3 Plugin Tutorial Document and Prototype File Set

« on: May 03, 2008, 04:29:40 AM »

Unfortunately I wasn't able to run the gcolde calling the scripter object. I have tryed all kind of declaration.
At the end I have added :

#include "Mach3ObjectModel.h"
and
Instead of :
   //scripter.LoadFile((LPCSTR)"C:\\Mach3\\GCode\\roadrunner.tap");
I have wrote :
   Mach3ObjectModelStartup();
   LoadGcodeFile("C:\\Mach3\\GCode\\roadrunner.tap");
   Mach3ObjectModelShutdown();


Daniel