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General Mach Discussion / Slow into hard corner?

« on: August 03, 2010, 12:44:34 PM »

I think I may be needing to configure my CV settings, but I am not entirely sure.  Basically, I have a square drawn that I want to cut out with sharp corners.  At present I am achieving the sharp corners but the machine seems to feed into the corner, hardstop, move off perpendicularly.  This seems unnecessarily abrupt and I was thinking it might be nice if I could get mach to decelerate into the corner gradually before moving off perpendicular. 

Is this possible?  or simply a foolhardy idea?

Thanks much
Brian

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: New Version 2.3.3 XBox360 Controller plugin available

« on: July 24, 2010, 11:00:35 PM »

Ah excellent, that works if I change the slow jog speed.  Thank you very much.

As one last question that is kind of an aside, how do I reverse direction in mach3?  By this I mean that at the moment mach3 is having z+ be moving down into the workpiece and I would like to switch it so z+ is up and out so that I have a normal right handed coordinate system.

Thanks
B

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: New Version 2.3.3 XBox360 Controller plugin available

« on: July 24, 2010, 09:48:09 PM »

Where would I find the jog settings you speak of in mach?  I am having a tough time locating them

Thanks much
Brian

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: New Version 2.3.3 XBox360 Controller plugin available

« on: July 24, 2010, 08:20:08 PM »

Ah thank you.  The calibration seems to have helped dramatically.  I can now get my z up to the full 100 ipm.  The triggers continue to do nothing however?

B

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: New Version 2.3.3 XBox360 Controller plugin available

« on: July 24, 2010, 07:22:31 PM »

Indeed I meant the triggers.  For some reason I get no response when I use the triggers.  Initially when I installed the xbox plugin the up down axis of my right stick did not work.  It took a restart of MACH3 to get the up down right stick to work in mach. 

I am wondering if I should just reinstall the plugin and perhaps the issue I am having with the triggers is similar to the original left stick up down issue?

Brian

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: New Version 2.3.3 XBox360 Controller plugin available

« on: July 24, 2010, 07:14:02 PM »

I am a new user and have a question about using the xbox controller.  I have the controller connected to mach3 and working well with my gecko g540.  My issue is that I cannot get the controller to move the axis at full speed.  On my Z axis, jogging on the keyboard I can get the slide to move at 100ipm but when using the xbox controller I can only get it to move at 30.  I know the shoulder buttons are supposed to be able increase jog speed but I cant get them to work?

I am wondering if I have some settings incorrect ie perhaps the cont jog mode or what not but I cannot seem to understand.  Does anyone have any suggestions as to things I could check?

Thanks much
Brian