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General Mach Discussion / Re: M3 not working

« on: October 18, 2014, 02:44:14 PM »

Thanks I will review what I have done again as I have done what we have discuss. Thanks for confirming

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General Mach Discussion / Re: M3 not working

« on: October 18, 2014, 02:38:28 PM »

Ah I think I am understand mach3 will create the folder based on what it is thinking and I need to determine which one it is using it may not be what I was expecting it to be of buzz8x4

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General Mach Discussion / Re: M3 not working

« on: October 18, 2014, 02:36:02 PM »

Thanks that is what I thought so I manually created a directory call macros\buzz4x8 and copied all of the contents for 540b into it.  I thought this would make things right.  Am I doing it right?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: M3 not working

« on: October 18, 2014, 12:39:11 PM »

When u say copy m3 540b to my new profile what is my new profile? Where do I find if. This sounds like what I am looking for as my problem

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General Mach Discussion / Re: M3 not working

« on: October 17, 2014, 05:05:30 PM »

When I copy the files I do a fc (file compare against the two files) and it returns they are the same.   IMO it has something to do with renaming the file to Buzz4x8.xml.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: M3 not working

« on: October 16, 2014, 09:51:30 PM »

They are identical files, I copied one file to the other file... was I supposed to be looking for something in the file.

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General Mach Discussion / M3 not working

« on: October 16, 2014, 08:02:27 AM »

I need to copy an configuration xml file to a new name for example 540b.xml to Buzz4x8.xml.  Only when i do this everything seems to work but the M3 function (I suspect more but this is all I see for now).  I copied the macro\540b to macro\buzz4x8 but it does not seem to get it working either.  Any idea what I need to do to get the new xml working?

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: M3 not working

« on: October 15, 2014, 05:47:48 PM »

OK so I found out how to fix it but am slightly confused.  If I use the original file 540b.xml it works fine but when I copy that file to buzz4x8.xml and start using it stops working..  Thought it might have something to do with the 540b macros directory so I made a copy of it under the name of buzz4x8 but still not working.   So its back to 540b.xml, which with a new machine coming on line was hoping to have separate names for each machine.  IS there something I need to do to get the new XML file to work (Buzz4x8.xml)?

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: M3 not working

« on: October 15, 2014, 03:39:00 PM »

Also if I hit the Spindle CW F5 button on the Program Run page the router fires up.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / M3 not working

« on: October 15, 2014, 03:37:58 PM »

Ported an existing install of Mach 3 from one machine to another... EVERYThing works fantastically except M3

I can use the spindle and mist button on the diagnostics page to start the spindle with either Mist toggle and Spindle toggle which are both set to use the port, #1 pin 17.
I can use M7 and M9 which use the exact same port configuration and M3... but nothing happens when I use M3.  Very strange, actually rather confused...

Its almost like something is mapping M3 to do something different than the setup of it under  Spindle Setup  Where I have M3, M4 and M7 setup at Output #1, and then under output signals I have Output 1 setup a port 1, ping 17.  Again m7 works but m3 does not.

If I change it up so m3 uses port 2 and setup port 2 as pin 17 same problem.

So how can something take away access to M3 and maybe M5?