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General Mach Discussion / Avid CNC tripping breakers?

« on: November 23, 2020, 06:26:09 PM »

I know there is a good amount of avid cnc guys here so here goes the long shot... Plug and Play nema 34 electronics on a 4'x2' table cut out on me today (loss of power). Every plug I plugged into tripped the breaker. A short somewhere? I wish I new more about electronics but thats all I know so far! Thanks in advance.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Settings not saving?

« on: January 24, 2020, 04:09:24 PM »

I can only find some mach 3 info on this which did not seem to work. After closing mach4 the changes I made are not saved. Mainly the x axis reverses and any keypad mapping I added disappears.

What I have tried so far is to right click on mach4 then made my way into the security tab and unchecked "write" under the permission section... nothing changed.

Thanks guys!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Router running off the table immediately after starting a cut?

« on: January 22, 2020, 08:32:47 PM »

I did switch it over to metric after downloading it/ reconfiguring. Maybe I missed something. When I go to configure,  control, the machine setup units are metric, and units mode is metric. What is this "native units" you speak of?

Thanks in advance Craig, you have helped me a ton in the past!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Router running off the table immediately after starting a cut?

« on: January 22, 2020, 06:19:26 PM »

Unfortunately I have been sorting through some pc issues that disrupted mach 4. I have seemingly taken care of them, reinstalled mach 4.

Strangely none of the keyboard jogging worked but I mapped them in with no issues. All seems normal except when I start a cut the router flies off and trips limits.

I recall having this happen before. Also in the current positions indicator something seems off. In mach it says I moved the tool 4 mm but in reality it has moved half way across the table. This may be the problem here? 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 randomly disappearing from desktop?

« on: January 21, 2020, 08:45:50 PM »

hmmm...  just confused as I am running windows ten and recall disabling all of that antivirus when installing the first time around.

If you happen to familiar with windows any tips?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Mach 4 randomly disappearing from desktop?

« on: January 21, 2020, 07:57:06 PM »

Anybody ever have this happen? It seems every couple of months mach just disappears from my desktop after closing. I usually have to completely reinstall it.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MACH 4 bugs when cutting?

« on: January 20, 2020, 03:02:33 PM »

Thank for directing where this post is better opted for. When I run the simulation in fusion it all looks good and same on the toolpath indicator in mach. I guess it is during the transfer... just a pain as it is making programming new parts take twice as long.... seems about 25% of the time is happens.

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Mach4 General Discussion / MACH 4 bugs when cutting?

« on: January 20, 2020, 02:34:11 PM »

Hi all, I have been cutting fairly successfully with mach 4 for a half a year now. Every now and again after getting halfway through a cut the router just flies off randomly and ruins the part. It seems this usually happens on a new CAD file. I export from fusion and use a USB drive to get it on my cutting computer.

This used to happen when a "notification" popped up on the computer but I have since turned those off to avoid this issue.

What goes wrong here? I suspect it is just the new Gcode being corrupted when transferring over. I never have this problem running usual parts hundreds of times over.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: X axis is reversed?

« on: January 11, 2020, 03:49:41 AM »

Ah Ok! You are correct! Configure, plugins, ESS then ports and pins. Seems I have to be hooked up to the machine so I will try when I am back.

Thanks a lot Craig!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: X axis is reversed?

« on: January 10, 2020, 08:32:26 PM »

reversing a winding? What exactly do you mean? I would hate to have to cut up my nice cables, but it seems that might be the only way here