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Mach4 General Discussion / Mach4 - Spindle location when manually walking through gcode

« on: July 30, 2019, 10:46:29 AM »

Hi All!

I have a quick question - in Mach3, I used to be able to manually scroll through gcode line by line and see exactly where my spindle would be cutting when each line was executed.  So if we did have something go wrong (bit break, whatever) we could stop it, walk the gcode back line by line (and visually see what was being executed) to get to the correct spot to resume our file.

In Mach4, for the life of me I can't figure out how to see the same thing visually in the tool path viewer.  I see the entire file to cut but as we step forward and backwards in the gcode, I see no indication on the toolpath view of what would be executed if we were on that specific line.  Is is just a setting I'm missing?

Thanks!
Travis

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Random "External EStop Requested" interrupting large jobs

« on: July 20, 2018, 02:59:26 AM »

Yeah - that's why I'm confused as well.....

The first time it happened I thought I might have accidentally bumped the EStop switch just not paying close enough attention.  But then it happened again and again and again....you get the idea.
The last 3 or 4 times it happened I immediately checked the Diagnostics tab and nothing.

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General Mach Discussion / Random "External EStop Requested" interrupting large jobs

« on: July 20, 2018, 02:26:27 AM »

The last couple of days I've being running some large jobs (all being generated via VCarve Pro2D) and randomly during the job Mach3 will stop with the error "External EStop Requested".  Looking at the diagnostics tab none of the inputs are triggered (limit switches are fine and emergency stop isn't triggered). 

It's not a huge deal because I just start the file back up where it left off but if I'm running around doing other things it's little frustring coming back expecting the job to be done and having the job stalled.

Anyway, if anyone has any guesses where it might be coming from that I could dig into I appreciate it.

Running:
Mach3 (it's not the latest version - its the version recommended for use by Warp9 for the Smoothstepper)
Ethernet Smoothstepper
Win 8

Thanks!