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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!
« on: October 02, 2014, 01:56:38 PM »
Ello everybody!
Im entirely new to mach3 and this forum.
It seems like this is the place I need to be to learn how it works.
I bought my software pre-installed on a little msi netbook from a fellow who upgraded and no longer needed it.
About a year has passed since then and I have done little more with it than power up the machine and use it as my diagnostic computer for automotive troubleshooting. I ran the mach3 software to ensure it would at least come up but thats about as far as i went.
Fast forward to this week...
I was able to successfully get the software transferred to a newer, beefier machine... and read through the help/manual pdf...
Here is where I am stuck.
I cant seem to get it to do anyting...
In the pdf, there is an explanation(albeit clear as mud) to set the software up to "pretend".... but no dice.
I witnessed the fellow I bough the netbook from actually use it to control one of his machines... but I cant seem to get it to do anything either..
I can load a program and see it populate in the data box... but when i hit cycle start it does not even try to run the program.
Im certain im just missing something stoopid... but im bald enough already.
The procedure i followed...
Installed mach3
Restarted machine...
Followed instructions to install mach1/2 .inf but... there was no mach1/2.inf file
Instead there was just mach3.inf, and mach.inf...
Tried both with no change...
What am I doing wrong?
I do not yet have my mill ready to plug in and go... so while that is in waiting I figured it best to learn the control in "pretend" mode...
Im entirely new to mach3 and this forum.
It seems like this is the place I need to be to learn how it works.
I bought my software pre-installed on a little msi netbook from a fellow who upgraded and no longer needed it.
About a year has passed since then and I have done little more with it than power up the machine and use it as my diagnostic computer for automotive troubleshooting. I ran the mach3 software to ensure it would at least come up but thats about as far as i went.
Fast forward to this week...
I was able to successfully get the software transferred to a newer, beefier machine... and read through the help/manual pdf...
Here is where I am stuck.
I cant seem to get it to do anyting...
In the pdf, there is an explanation(albeit clear as mud) to set the software up to "pretend".... but no dice.
I witnessed the fellow I bough the netbook from actually use it to control one of his machines... but I cant seem to get it to do anything either..
I can load a program and see it populate in the data box... but when i hit cycle start it does not even try to run the program.
Im certain im just missing something stoopid... but im bald enough already.
The procedure i followed...
Installed mach3
Restarted machine...
Followed instructions to install mach1/2 .inf but... there was no mach1/2.inf file
Instead there was just mach3.inf, and mach.inf...
Tried both with no change...
What am I doing wrong?
I do not yet have my mill ready to plug in and go... so while that is in waiting I figured it best to learn the control in "pretend" mode...