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General Mach Discussion / Re: homing slave axis problem (...and more)

« on: November 10, 2015, 11:06:21 AM »

The X and A home switches MUST be on different pins.
And you must go to General Config, and uncheck "Home Slave with Master".

Greg my problem was that i set my A axis with 20% of speed in homing and limits and my X axis with 10%... i can't believe i struggled for days and didn't see it
Thank you!!!!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: how to start from the previous line after pushing a button

« on: November 09, 2015, 05:23:16 PM »

just for the record...
i just solved my problem using inputs to stop and start the program in case of a missing bolt... so every time there is a missing bolt i press a button that runs a macro with a g-code that makes my Z axis go down and up, screws and it continuous with the rest of the program after that

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General Mach Discussion / Re: homing slave axis problem (...and more)

« on: November 09, 2015, 04:58:31 PM »

can anybody help me please??
my program loads when i press the reset button but i need it to load when i start mach3 without pressing reset .... how can i make my macro run from the start??
please?? i'm trying really hard since english is not my native language

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General Mach Discussion / Re: homing slave axis problem (...and more)

« on: November 06, 2015, 05:58:25 PM »

The X and A home switches MUST be on different pins.

i'm gonna try it again,
thanks!

Now i have this problem with the macro, i made a macro that allowed me to load my program without clicking in the reset button but i just can't remember how i did it!!!! it's so frustrating that i can't find the solution...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: homing slave axis problem (...and more)

« on: November 06, 2015, 03:09:48 PM »

The X and A home switches MUST be on different pins.
And you must go to General Config, and uncheck "Home Slave with Master".

thank you!!
i tried that way this morning but my A axis seems to not detect the limit switch and keeps moving until i push the e-stop!
the ''4 Zero'' button remains in red and dont let me do anything else

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General Mach Discussion / homing slave axis problem (...and more)

« on: November 06, 2015, 12:15:26 PM »

Hi everybody!
i'm having a homing problem with my Slave Axis(A)...
( i have one home switch for each axis) when i hit the all-ref button X & A axis moves toward  home position, A axis hits first the home switch and starts moving away even if the X axis never touched the home switch... and the X axis never moves to the switch....

i need both axis to find the switches and i tried almost everything in the forum but i still can't make it work.
all My switches are in series to the same pin (i tried wiring the A axis in paralel but nothing happened)

i don't know what i am doing wrong...  

i also want to know if it is possible to run a macro that send the reset signal everytime i open mach3
i want to load my programs and push the reset button with the same macro in the initialization string, this is what i got but didn't work (still have to click on the reset button to autolad)
 
Const ResetButton = 1021
 DOButton (ResetButton)
 Loadfile("C:\mach3\Gcode\drilling4scr.txt")
End




thanks !

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General Mach Discussion / how to start from the previous line after pushing a button

« on: October 30, 2015, 01:38:03 PM »

i am having so many problems since i can't find too much information about the IF conditions topic (and i'm just too dumb to understand what i have read before) .

I need to find a way to set a condition that IF i pause my code it can return to a determined line (GOTO) when i start it again

Let's say i am trying to screwing 3 allen bolts with a pneumatic screwer. This screwer sends a fault to a PLC when it doesn't found a bolt, i set the PLC to send a signal to MACH3 to pause the program when the screwer didn't screw the bolt (to let me or the user verify if there is a bolt missing) . But When i push the start button, the program will run  from the next line and i need to repeat the previous line to screw the bolt i just set up
 
thank you and sorry for my bad english haha

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!

« on: October 30, 2015, 12:42:48 PM »

hi im das from mexico!
just found a lot of helpfull threads in here thanks to everyone!