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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: What happened to the MPG flyout in Mach4?

« on: October 13, 2018, 12:57:55 AM »

Hi,

Does that feature still exist in Mach4? If so I I see there's a Jog tab with the same functionality but a different interface

The flyout has gone the way of the dinosaur. The jog tab has all the same functionality.

You may not yet be in a position to use it but when you are check out the jogging APIs, you'll be able to use those to define
and make your own jogging commands/macros/buttons.

Craig

Hi Craig,

Thanks for the info and the incredibly fast reply!

Sorry to hear that your best friend still hasn't come back... ;-)

Jay

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Mach4 General Discussion / What happened to the MPG flyout in Mach4?

« on: October 13, 2018, 12:27:45 AM »

Greetings All,

I'm a member of the Rochester Makerspace (NY).

We just installed a new ESS Smoothstepper and Mach4 on our router and fired it up last night. We have been running Mach3 until now.

One of the first things I noticed was that the on-screen MPG no longer pops up when you hit the Tab key. Does that feature still exist in Mach4? If so I I see there's a Jog tab with the same functionality but a different interface. Is that the recommended replacement for the on-screen virtual device?

Thanks!

Jay Perez

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Can't jog more than 1 axis at the same time.

« on: July 06, 2018, 07:22:53 PM »

Hey Craig,

As the others have said we're able to jog all the axies at the same using the keyboard.

I hope your best friend comes back  !  ;-)

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Can't jog more than 1 axis at the same time.

« on: July 05, 2018, 10:38:15 PM »

Thanks Gerry,

Are you aware of any settings that have to be configured to enable this ?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Can't jog more than 1 axis at the same time.

« on: July 05, 2018, 09:36:36 PM »

Thanks for the reply Craig,

I use two CNC routers at our local Makerspace running on Mach3 and can jog all axis simultaneously on both of them. I haven't found the settings that allow that behavior and can't get the one I'm working on to job more than one axis at a time.

The biggest difference in the three routers is that the two at the Makerspace are using parallel port BOBs and this one is a USB interface board.

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General Mach Discussion / Can't jog more than 1 axis at the same time.

« on: July 04, 2018, 11:09:32 PM »

Hi everyone,

I'm helping a friend set up his 6040 gantry CNC. It's been challenging to find all the information but we've managed to get the machine calibrated pretty close with good motion, limit switches, homing, soft limits all working properly.

Controlling the spindle via g-code is next.

However, I can't figure out how to get the Mach3 software to allow me to jog 2 or more axis at the same time. I know it's possible as I've used other CNC routers with Mach3 and can jog X, Y, & Z all simultaneously.

I've searched the forums and the Internet but can't find anything on this topic.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Jay