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General Mach Discussion / Version R3.043.066 bug

« on: June 25, 2013, 07:39:39 PM »

I use the ShuttleRU pendant.  It has an outer ring that when rotated, will cause an axis to jog.  the more the ring is rotated, the faster the axis jogs.  When the ring is allowed to return to center, the table jog stops.
I installed a new motherboard, and after installing mach, started having trouble with the outer wheel functionality.  The axis would not stop when the ring returned to center.  I thought perhaps the encoder has a dead spot.  I went through a debugging effort on the plugin, and made sure that when the ring goes back to center the code:
      Engine->Axis[CurrentAxis].Dec = true;
      Code("ENDJOG");
Is called. 
Then it dawned on me that I had downloaded and installed the latest version of Mach3.  Going back to version 3.043.022 fixed the issue. 
Eric

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Motor Tuning Problem

« on: June 20, 2013, 02:18:16 PM »

The problem is that the NTGRAPH.OCX file that the motor tuning window uses is a registered ocx file.  If you rename or move the installation, then Windows can't find it.  You can manually reregister it by clicking the Windows start button, then Run and enter:
regsvr32 {full install path}\ntgraph.ocx
For example for a standard install it would be
regsvr32 c:\mach3\ntgraph.ocx

Eric

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Is there a list of permitted names of plugins?

« on: January 14, 2013, 10:44:11 PM »

Thanks Ger.
Andrey, I was in contact with Brian.  I have sent him the plugin so he can run it with Mach in debug mode to see why Mach crashes when it is enabled.
Eric

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Is there a list of permitted names of plugins?

« on: January 14, 2013, 09:56:10 AM »

Hi Andrey,
I posted the same question but haven't gotten an answer yet.  I also posted on the yahoo group, but no one has answer there either.
Eric

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Any naming requirements for plugins? Plugin is disabled if renamed.

« on: January 11, 2013, 08:00:54 AM »

I have written enhanced plugins for the Russian pendent, (ShuttleRU).  Why is it that if I rename the plugin from shuttleru.dll to TinyMPG.dll it is not enabled in the plugin configuration menu?  If I rename it shuttleMPG.dll, it comes up enabled.
I also changed my compile and link to create the plugin with the new name and still have the same problem.
Eric

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General Mach Discussion / Re: arc/circle move with R code

« on: September 25, 2012, 01:18:30 PM »

In Visual Mill, you need to select the Advanced Cut Parameters tab, in there you select the Perform Arc Fitting.  That will convert all curves into arcs that fall withing the fitting tolerance you entered in.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cutting Fluid for Aluminum

« on: September 25, 2012, 01:10:29 PM »

I have been using WD40.  I give a quick shot and it works well. Home depot has it by the gallon for around $17.  Kerosene has also been used effectively and is much cheaper.  I cut parts out of 1/4" 6061 plate and do three passes with a 1/8" end mill..  If you are using 4000 series aluminum, then you REALLY need to keep on top of the cutting fluid or the cutter will gum up.

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: VS2010 Failed to Create Project

« on: September 25, 2012, 09:33:34 AM »

Disregard, I suspect you were talking about the wizard created to produce plugin code for VS2008.

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: VS2010 Failed to Create Project

« on: September 24, 2012, 11:07:21 AM »

Keep in mind that the VS plugin wizard creates plugins for the VS IDE, not Mach3 plugins.

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Another ShuttleRU pendant plugin available with great new button function.

« on: December 05, 2011, 07:46:56 PM »

I've released an important update for the ShuttleRU pendant, both the LCD and non LCD versions.
Download

The several changes are detailed on Andrey's website, but the one I want to tell you about is a Momentary Shift-Red option.  Now you can safely keep setup functions, like homing and zeroing out the DRO's in "Red" mode, and you won't accidentally use one of these functions because you forgot you are in the "Red" mode rather than "Green" mode.
If you assign one of the 15 buttons to this new function, then the normal mode button will be ignored, and you will need to hold down the assigned shift button while pressing the button whose Red function you want to execute. 
I've come up with an optimal layout for the buttons, and would be happy to share it, (in the form of a Corel Draw file).

Regards,
Eric Sanders
SoarSoft Software