Messages

1

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mouse MPG question

« on: June 07, 2021, 11:31:42 AM »

Bump. Anyone know where to get the script now? The link doesn't work anymore.

2

Mach4 General Discussion / Any reason not to use Joytokey for Xbox controller?

« on: January 26, 2021, 09:14:19 PM »

Only found a couple threads where JoytoKey was mentioned as a way to use an Xbox controller. I installed it and it works great but is there a concern? Figure $7 is a deal to a quick and easy way to use a controller.

It's on my plasma table. Any way to get functions like starting the torch as a keyboard function? All I have are moves.

3

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Screen Load Error: Screen\wxMach.set does not exist

« on: January 24, 2021, 05:09:24 PM »

I was able to get into Mach now by reinstalling it but Mach still says it doesn't see the ESS but the SCU does.

4

Mach4 General Discussion / Screen Load Error: Screen\wxMach.set does not exist

« on: January 24, 2021, 04:48:09 PM »

Finally was about to finish my plasma cabinet, went to boot up Mach4 and suddenly I'm getting this error. Retried many times an even the ESS will lose connection so I run the SCU to detect it again. Everything was doing well then this. Was running fine earlier today so not sure what suddenly cause this problem?

Found the profiles machine.ini instruction but no luck.

5

PoKeys / PoBlocks (Pokeys 57U) - Stepper movement based on value

« on: January 03, 2018, 10:35:19 AM »

I've had this Pokeys for a little while and had it running Mach3 on the bench.

I have a project that I'd like to do use the PoBlocks feature but I'm not entirely sure how to go about it. I understand the jist of the block-programming but am stumped on a situation.

I want to input numerical values (position values) through a HMI of some sort to move two steppers to those positions. That's basically it. I also wanted to use some I/O's to set conditions to lockout movement if some inputs are triggered.

I found another thread stating that PoBlocks can control steppers so I'm just wondering how I can manually enter values into PoBlocks.

Can the PoKeys/PoBlocks also run without being connected to a PC? I see you can set PoBlocks to run continuously so I assume you can power the board without a PC and have it run alone?