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Mach4 General Discussion / Prevent spindle rotation for certaint tools

« on: November 07, 2021, 02:09:19 PM »

Today I had my Haimer 3D taster in the spindle (tool Nr. 2) and I wanted to load tool Nr. 6. I wrongfully typed M3 T6 instead of M6 T3 into the MDI. Luckily the spindle speed was set to only 1000 rpm, so no damage was done, but it could have been much worse.

Is there a way in Mach4 to disable the spindle for specific tools?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Corrupted Machine.ini file

« on: March 26, 2020, 04:18:25 PM »

I wasn't there when it happened so I couldn't tell but I will ask the customer how they shut down the computer.

Thank you for helping.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Corrupted Machine.ini file

« on: March 26, 2020, 05:02:46 AM »

Does anybody know why Machine.ini file gets corrupted every once in a while (at least once a month) and that causes Mach4 not to load? After I replace the Machine.ini file with a backup everything works fine again. I have build 4419.

https://youtu.be/-gUpz5PhVyU

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: How to disable any movement before the machine is homed?

« on: March 03, 2020, 05:09:42 AM »

Yeah...  the PMC rules for this kind of stuff.  It is a one rung'er.   

Unfortunately, I broke the PMC editor in builds 4394 to 4410.  A new dev build will be there soon.  But you can try it out just dropping the .pmc and .lua files in your Pmc directory and then telling the screen set to use them.  Like I said, only the PMC Editor was broken.  I tried to get fancy and had an epic failure.  LOL

Both the scripts above and this pmc file raise ISIG_MOTION_INHIBIT (Gode/MDI) and ISIG_JOG_INHIBIT (jogging). 

Steve

Awesome! It worked with both methods but the one with PMC is much simpler.

I did not know before what PMC was but just after watching the following video from the support I was able to install your script
successfully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhH9qyjjf0

The script is basically fine and does it's job - prevents a crash.

There is one thing that I would like to fix though. When Cycle Start is pressed Mach4 will still run a first few lines of code. I assume that is because of cycle time being minimum 1 ms.

Is there a way to just grey out the Cycle start button until the machine is homed?

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General Mach Discussion / Cutter compensation not working (Fusion 360 and Mach3)

« on: February 27, 2020, 12:12:58 PM »

I have tried to implement cutter compensation for a while but never had any luck.

Whatever I do I always get some errors in Mach3.

I made a short recording that goes trough programming a part and importing it into Mach3. I would appreaciate any tips and suggestions.

https://youtu.be/3ZeYL-pW3V8

I attached the g-code and the fusion archive file.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 "Tool Path Progress" message

« on: February 24, 2020, 03:46:01 AM »

I've upgraded to build 4419 as @smurph suggested and now everything works flawlessly.

Thank you Steve!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 "Tool Path Progress" message

« on: February 24, 2020, 03:01:55 AM »

I am running build 4300. Should I try build 4419?

I downloaded the current version here just a few days ago: https://www.machsupport.com/shop/mach4-hobby/

How come that the version that I downloaded there is not the most recent one?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 "Tool Path Progress" message

« on: February 24, 2020, 02:29:28 AM »

Execute this code in MDI and see if that doesn't fix your issue. 

Code: [Select]

G10 L50
N8110 R998
N8111 R999
G11

After executing that code, shut down and restart Mach.

Steve

That didn't solve the problem.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 "Tool Path Progress" message

« on: February 23, 2020, 06:20:09 PM »

I figured out what is causing the code not to load.

This is the code:

Code: [Select]

(08_009_100)
(T1  D=6. CR=0. - ZMIN=-45. - FLAT END MILL)
G90 G94 G91.1 G40 G49 G17
G21

(BORE1 8)
M5
M9
T1 M6
S12000 M3
G54
M8
G0 X-70. Y-42.
G43 Z20. H1
Z2.
G1 Z0. F2000.
G2 Y-108. Z-18. I0. J-33.
Y-42. Z-36. I0. J33.
X-37. Y-75. Z-45. I0. J-33.
X-103. I-33. J0.
X-37. I33. J0.
G0 Z10.
X-195. Y-63.
Z2.
G1 Z0. F2000.
G2 Y-87. Z-18. I0. J-12.
Y-63. Z-36. I0. J12.
X-183. Y-75. Z-45. I0. J-12.
X-207. I-12. J0.
X-183. I12. J0.
G0 Z10.
X-470. Y-42.
Z2.
G1 Z0. F2000.
G2 Y-108. Z-18. I0. J-33.
Y-42. Z-36. I0. J33.
X-437. Y-75. Z-45. I0. J-33.
X-503. I-33. J0.
X-437. I33. J0.
G0 Z10.
X-570. Y-63.
Z2.
G1 Z0. F2000.
G2 Y-87. Z-18. I0. J-12.
Y-63. Z-36. I0. J12.
X-558. Y-75. Z-45. I0. J-12.
X-582. I-12. J0.
X-558. I12. J0.
G0 Z20.
M5
G53 G0 X0 Y0
M1
M3

(BORE1 9)
M8
G0 X-70. Y-42.
Z20.
Z2.
G1 Z0. F2000.
G2 Y-108. Z-18. I0. J-33.
Y-42. Z-36. I0. J33.
X-37. Y-75. Z-45. I0. J-33.
X-103. I-33. J0.
X-37. I33. J0.
G0 Z10.
X-570. Y-42.
Z2.
G1 Z0. F2000.
G2 Y-108. Z-18. I0. J-33.
Y-42. Z-36. I0. J33.
X-537. Y-75. Z-45. I0. J-33.
X-603. I-33. J0.
X-537. I33. J0.
G0 Z20.
M5
G53 G0 X0 Y0

M9
M30

This is the line 52 of the code:

Code: [Select]

M0

If I remove the line 52 (M0) from the code then It will load properly.

Can somebody please explain why Mach4 is acting that way? In Mach3 this same code works just fine.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 "Tool Path Progress" message

« on: February 23, 2020, 05:10:30 AM »

A CORRECTION:

I was under a false impression that the sample files in the "GcodeFiles" folder were also at fault. The problem appears once I load one of my files to Mach4 and it won't go away until I restart a computer.

I attached one of the files that is causing me the problem. The file was generated in Fusion360 with Mach3Mill postprocessor.