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Machscreen Screen Designer / Re: how do i control the red/green LED?
« on: March 18, 2014, 12:47:16 PM »
I haven't messed with it more.  someone wrote that I could make it a user defined LED and write some script to run it.  it still makes no sense to me that this isn't just a flipflop type of switch variable..  I seem to remember the system returns 0 or -1 to make it red/green.  you'd think that there would be a definition of red/green and another as green/red, but I can't seem to make that happen.

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Machscreen Screen Designer / Re: how do i make VB script changes stay?
« on: February 19, 2014, 10:25:39 PM »
thank you.  it is very confusing when "save as" asks if you want to replace existing code, but save doesn't.  then the whole "hidden" thing adds to WTF?

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Machscreen Screen Designer / how do i make VB script changes stay?
« on: February 19, 2014, 03:47:30 PM »
my script is in a separate file.  under operator/edit button script I open it, make changes.  I save it, I save as hidden script, I save as back to my file.  next time I open mach3 the old version is back.  I tried rebooting and that didn't seem to make a difference.  I've made it work before, but now can't repeat the process.

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Machscreen Screen Designer / how do i control the red/green LED?
« on: February 05, 2014, 02:02:04 PM »

I wanted to change the SOFT LIMITS button to light red when the limits weren't in effect. I got it to become a red/green LED but it lit red when I wanted it to be green. so I went back and switched it to a red LED, but that didn't make a difference, off is still green and on is red, the opposite of what I wanted. what controls the way the red/green works?

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IT WORKS!  it was zeroing out the home coordinates that did it.  when I added them back in the non-zero stuff returned, but I don't need the home def. anyways.
why isn't this mentioned in your documentation?  also add that axis limit units are that used for motor calibration, not current part.

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now that I've cut a few parts I want to use the entire table size and protect myself with soft limits.  my router has no limit switches.  it seems to me that I need to move the spindle to the lower left corner and somehow set the machine coordinates to zero.  for the life of me I can't do this.  currently it shows x=918, y=214, z=25 while sitting in the far corner [want it to read x=0, y=0].  my soft limits won't run because they are off the scales.
one set of instructions said to REF ALL, toggle RDO to machine coord [red box], then zero each axis.  this DOESN'T work!  neither does anything else I've tried, and tried, and tried.
I don't know at this point where the machine coordinates I have came from.  at one point I had soft limits working when I carefully defined my table as just 12" x 12" [just playing it safe].
am I doing something wrong?  am I on the wrong path?  ahren from CRP told me he sets his machine up like this [no limits, just soft limits], so that's not the problem.

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