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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 rotary axis w/rollover shortest path

« on: August 04, 2022, 07:50:49 PM »

Ah, now thats useful, thanks Chad!!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 rotary axis w/rollover shortest path

« on: August 04, 2022, 03:55:02 PM »

You can do more than one circle "without stop" already by simply disabling roll over on 360. This is not the problem. The problem is that we WANT normal rollover on 360 functionality!! That is, mach takes the shortest path and doesnt "unwind" 10 times if code goes from A3600 to A0, and displays always only 0-360. G54 distinction is not relevant to the issue.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 rotary axis w/rollover shortest path

« on: August 03, 2022, 07:34:00 AM »

first fast option its not use as rotary axiss just use as normal axiss and make one round as 360mm or inches....

I do not understand what you are saying. How does this equate to roll over on 360? How it is different to using a rotary axis without rollover, except that now you have the additional problem of limits to the axis movement? Can a non-rotary axis take the shortest path from e.g. A350 to A10? I do not see it...
Your second option isnt a solution, it's a workaround outside of mach to behaviour that should not be happening, and this level of programming is outside the reach of most people.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 rotary axis w/rollover shortest path

« on: August 02, 2022, 05:48:26 AM »

I made progress, I guess - I decided not to use Mach4!! This issue makes the software completely unusable for me...

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 rotary axis w/rollover shortest path

« on: June 15, 2022, 06:02:04 AM »

I'm in the process of testing whether Mach4 would be suitable for a new build, thinking of coming back from UCCNC, but having a similar problem when I test long G93 rotary carving files. Without rollover, A just ticks continuously upwards, but with rollover, every time it reaches around A359 it pauses to return to A0 the long way, not ideal! So I would also appreciate knowing if it's possible to stop this behaviour.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: *** FORUM SEARCH FACILITY BROKEN ***

« on: December 22, 2018, 07:38:57 AM »

+1 please fix this asap! I'm trying to troubleshoot and its kinda tricky without the knowledge base of these forums