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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Pokeys 57cnc touch probe issue

« on: October 30, 2017, 04:18:18 PM »

Much appreciated Daz. Thanks for the hints on what to look for.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Pokeys 57cnc touch probe issue

« on: October 27, 2017, 11:56:39 PM »

Hello all,
I have a pokeys57cnc that I have on a 3axis mill with a collet spindle. I use DazTheGaz's tool change script to change tools accurately in programs. It works good most of the time. Every once in a while though it will ignore the probe input and try to drive through the touch plate. I have broken two pcb drill bits with this issue. It can do a whole program full of tool changes with no issues, then the next time running the same program, it will try to drive through on a tool change. It seems to not only be the M6 script though. Sometimes when using the touch sensor button on the main page, it will also try to drive through the touch plate. The input indicator is on when it is driving through so it is not like it has a bad connection.
Has anyone else experienced this issue? What more information do you need from me to try and figure this out? Is there anything that I need to check before running a sensor probe program?
Thanks,
PottieMouth

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Mach4 Toolbox / Re: MACH4 tool change

« on: August 28, 2017, 01:43:49 PM »

Yeah! I helped someone! I feel special now!

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Mach4 Toolbox / Re: MACH4 tool change

« on: August 28, 2017, 09:07:12 AM »

To my knowledge, no you should not have to change anything but the tool number.
The only thing that that message is looking for is that your current tool and the requested tool (M6). If the current tool is different than the requested tool, the message appears.
Can you click 'OK' on that message and press cycle start again, like the message says? Does your GCode start running then?
On my machine I always look at the first M6 tool before I begin. I place that tool in the spindle, zero Z, then change the tool number in the dialog box and press cycle start to avoid doing a tool change routine at the beginning of the cycle. You don't have a spindle so you should never have to change it once it is setup.

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Mach4 Toolbox / Re: MACH4 tool change

« on: August 24, 2017, 03:13:41 PM »

Since you should never change tools, you should just be able to put tool number three into Mach and go.
On the main screen in the bottom right hand side is tool info. There is a tool number box. Replace that number with three and press enter. Now you should be able to cycle start without that message appearing.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Script not updating. Please help.

« on: August 19, 2017, 11:37:53 AM »

Post the code and I will look at it. The message box is in the master module if I'm not mistaken.

Here is a pic of the script.
I might be able to just comment out Daz's message box and leave this one alone, but it still would be nice to know where this is located.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Script not updating. Please help.

« on: August 19, 2017, 06:26:19 AM »

OK. So it turns out that I wasn't following DazTheGaz's code to a T. I tried deleting and forcing to compile with no success either. What actually made it function was changing the name from 'm6' to 'M6' and subsequently changing the function name to the same to match. That actually got the code working.

While searching for solutions, I came across a piece of code for m6 in the lua script compilation. Around line 70 or so there is the code to display the tool change dialog box. In that display it is not editable though. Where can I find that piece of code so I can comment it out? I am using message boxes like in Daz's tutorial so I do not need that piece of script running.

I can post pics of this code later if need be.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Script not updating. Please help.

« on: August 17, 2017, 11:39:08 PM »

Hi,
where are you saving the m6 script? Sounds to me like you're saving it in a different profile.

Craig

It is being saved in the same folder as the same name as the original. The location and the name has not changed.

I thought that it might have been a different profile too, so I put the new script into both of the only two profiles that I have on there. It still ran the old script.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Script not updating. Please help.

« on: August 17, 2017, 11:02:43 PM »

So someone is probably going to point out the obvious to me, but I can not figure it out.

I am trying to setup the tool changer M6 like @DazTheGas has in one of his videos. I am following it to the T.  The script works fine in debug and displays what it should. When I save, shutdown and re-open mach and try to MDI an M6 command, it still displays what the old script had in it.

How do I get mach to load the new M6 script?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Probing after a manual tool change issue

« on: August 14, 2017, 02:35:20 PM »

Thank you Gary. That is simple enough to do.
But I would have thought there would be a way to re-probe after a program has been stopped.