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VB and the development of wizards / Re: reference X and Y axis then move X and Y to center of table

« on: March 29, 2013, 01:16:00 PM »

Thanks, that did the trick

I loaded some metric Gcode and it worked perfectly
This saves me several steps having one button that does it all

I appreciate the help guys

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: reference X and Y axis then move X and Y to center of table

« on: March 29, 2013, 01:03:59 PM »

I spoke too soon
It worked fine before I had loaded some metric G code

I work mostly in inches on Mach3

After running your code I loaded some G-code that was metric and instead of moving X and Y 4 inches it moved 4 millimeters

Not sure how I can do this with imperial and metric
Is there a way to figure this out before the machine proceeds with the first lines of code?

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: reference X and Y axis then move X and Y to center of table

« on: March 29, 2013, 12:55:23 PM »

Excellent, it works perfectly

thank you so much!

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VB and the development of wizards / reference X and Y axis then move X and Y to center of table

« on: March 29, 2013, 11:00:13 AM »

My 3D printer has an 8 x 8 inch bed
Before each printing session I reference the X and Y axis and then jog to the center of the bed at X4 and Y4 then zero out the X and Y axis dro's

I would like to add a button that does all this automatically but I am not sure how to use Function refX and function refY in a VB script

The basics of the operation would be

refX
set X dro to zero
refY
set Y dro to zero
G0 X4 Y4
set X and Y dro to zero

Thanks for any help on this

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Screen designer tips and tutorials / screen design problem

« on: August 23, 2007, 10:43:14 PM »

I designed a mach3 screen with screen4.exe on one PC and it displays fine on that PC in mach3

I copied the background.jpg image used in that screen and the customscreen.set file to the actual machine I use mach3 on, over my network.
The .set file is in the mach3 folder and the background.jpg is in a folder under the mach3/bitmap folder.

I open the custom screen on the mach3 pc and it's all messed up.
Hard to describe but it looks like the screen is split in the middle and there are two sets of buttons on the screen.
Nothing is in the proper location.

It looks fine on the design PC but not right on the actual machine PC.

What should I look for to correct this. Not sure where to go from here.
Thanks