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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 reinstallation
« on: December 27, 2015, 06:12:44 AM »
Thanks for that, I have already taken a backup of the folder so that will be a nice little job for me between Christmas and new year while the shop is closed.

Colin

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General Mach Discussion / Mach3 reinstallation
« on: December 26, 2015, 08:18:31 AM »
The PC on my CNC plasma cutter is becoming more and more unreliable, stopping when it feels like and just getting very slow. I would like to purchase an SSD hard drive to speed things up and reinstall mach 3. The profile was designed by the company I bought the system from but the warrantee has run out and support is quite expensive so I would like to reinstall everything myself. I have the licence file and believe all I need to do is transfer that to the new mach3 folder. Im aware I need to copy the old .set file and .xml file. Is there anything else I need to transfer ? I can take screen shots of the configuration to ensure they are OK. but not sure what else is needed.   

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General Mach Discussion / Re: External RESET buton, HOME button
« on: December 06, 2015, 12:09:55 PM »
I have written a small progam which will add shift key after ten ups, downs, lefts or rights.  I also have keys for page up and page down with the same shift key addittion.

Colin

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General Mach Discussion / Re: External RESET buton, HOME button
« on: December 06, 2015, 12:06:49 PM »
Thanks for the Reply Rob,  I am away this weekend but will get all the details to you soonest.  The only thing ive done is connect several switches to leonardo and have been using, keyboard.print, keyboard.line and mouse etc. usng extended keys for control keys.  I havent changed anything in Mach3 as I really didnt know what to change. I was going to implement the XBOX add on to see what that would do.

Colin

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General Mach Discussion / Re: External RESET buton, HOME button
« on: December 04, 2015, 11:48:36 AM »
Hi Robert, I have built a keyboard emulator using the Arduino Leonardo. I thought it would be simple to just plug it in and away I go, but no... I can get it to work on ever graphics program I have except Mach3. I am trying to use a joystick to jog and also would like to zero DRO at a specific point and then run.  stop would also be useful. Could you point me to a step by step guide, if the is one on how to do this.  Thanks in advance

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