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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 going into non-responsive state.

« on: November 09, 2017, 05:12:36 PM »

I was not able to resolve the issue. I ended up giving up on trying to use Mach4 and went back to Mach3. Mach4 was so buggy and unstable that it was not something I could rely on to run any piece of machinery.

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General Mach Discussion / X Axis hesitation

« on: October 02, 2017, 11:44:19 AM »

I have been working with several customers that are using the Bend-Tech Dragon tube plasma cutter and running Mach3 to control the machine. We are discovering an issue where on the last cut of square tubing, the x-axis (length of tubing) is having a delay in movement when changing directions. This is causing the end cut of the tubing to not line up with itself anymore. This issue can be corrected occasionally by changing the Lead-in/Lead-out location for that cut. We have compared the g-code files for the two cuts, and the values are all identical. Are there any known bugs within Mach3 when working with 4 axis or using Inverse Time Feedrate that would cause a delay in any of the given axis commands?

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General Mach Discussion / Unexpected ESS error

« on: March 10, 2017, 05:28:13 PM »

I have a customer that has been using his machine for some time now and recently started getting an error message. The error reads "Incorrect data read in ATR from CM: 5 times. The plugin will not function." I have never seen this error before and have tried my extend of knowledge to diagnose and troubleshoot for this customer. We have had them try reinstalling Mach 3 ver3.043.066, reinstalling the ESS plugin (latest version). Disabling Windows defender and uninstalling anti-virus. If anyone has any other ideas to try, please let me know. I can try to get the xml and other files if requested.

Thanks,
KK

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Homing

« on: October 26, 2015, 09:18:46 AM »

I never found or was supplied a solution to my homing issue. I was in contact with the Tech9 support and they are also aware of the issue. The only thing that solved my problem was to use Mach3 and not Mach4.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 going into non-responsive state.

« on: October 01, 2015, 05:16:15 PM »

After a bit of mild testing, it may be my M-Codes that are causing the non-responsive state...I am using various user defined M-Codes throughout the G-Code file. Although it doesn't freeze in the same location every time.

I have removed all of the user defined M-Codes from my G-Code file and the program will run on loop using M99 for some time, then just stop processing the G-Code. I looked at the log file and it appears to be waiting for motors to stop moving....there are no motors moving, but the last line is "Waiting on SetStill..." As soon as I click STOP, I am able to click Start Cycle again and run from where it hung up.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 going into non-responsive state.

« on: September 30, 2015, 05:42:27 PM »

yes. otherwise it would say "Unlicensed" on the top bar of my Mach4 Screen.....

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Mach4 General Discussion / Mach4 going into non-responsive state.

« on: September 30, 2015, 01:14:01 PM »

Hello all. I have a new issue that has arisen. I am running a very minimal component setup (ESS, BOB, Motors, 1 button, 1 LED). I have been running DazTheGas's logging script. I have attached a screen shot of the log file, my task manager and Mach4 in the background during the non-responsive state. The issue occurs after running a part continuously/repeatedly. Sometimes 5 hours of running, sometimes 15 minutes. Its almost as if the program gets stuck in a processing loop/stack overflow state, However there is no exception being thrown. Just not responding. The PC is Windows 10 64-bit, Intel Pentium G2030 @ 3.00GHz, 8GB RAM.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Screen Set Ideas

« on: September 29, 2015, 04:15:15 PM »

The wxWidget screen will come up with just CTRL+ALT+ middle mouse click.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Homing

« on: September 08, 2015, 03:15:25 PM »

Also Daz,
If you read farther up in the topic, Motor 3 is set to the Y axis, which is set to Home-in-place. The A axis is motor 1.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Homing

« on: September 08, 2015, 10:07:54 AM »

I am using a custom built screen that doesn't have the same diagnostics page. And the homing order will never matter because I am calling each axis to home individually and not using mc.mcAxisHomeAll().