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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help setting up a Mach3 machine

« on: May 09, 2022, 03:13:33 AM »

Have you added the plugin to Mach3?  It should be in Mach3\Plugins.  Then open Mach3 and configure it in the contig/config plugins menu.

that seems to be a problem. I do have plugins in Mach3\plugins, including the smoothstepper one.
But when I open Mach3, I only get to choose the profile (where I can see my XMLs profiles), then I get smoothstepper error "no USB devices found".
Which seems logical to me given that the Smoothstpper driver isn't properly installed.
After this error the software fails to load correctly, so I can't access any config menu to configure plugins.

Am I missing something? I have zero experience with this software and I am working pretty much blindly here... I apologize if I miss something very obvious.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help setting up a Mach3 machine

« on: May 06, 2022, 10:33:53 AM »

ok, so.
Attached you find a picture of the USB-connected board (smoothstepper is written upside down but it's there) and a picture of the Device Management window. I highlighted the relevant parts.

I already copied the XML and I can correctly select them at launch.

Can you please elaborate on the plugin?

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General Mach Discussion / Help setting up a Mach3 machine

« on: May 05, 2022, 09:59:19 AM »

Hello everyone,

hope this is the right spot for this request for help.
I work in IT, I "inherited" the infrastructure of a company with little to no documentation.
The plant manager is now asking me to set up a backup PC for our USB-controlled resin-treatment machine. This is the first time I see the software.

The current machine runs Mach 3.043.022 on Windows 7 pro 64 bit.
I found the setup on their file-server and tried installing it on a Windows 10 machine.
The main issue I'm having so far is with the SmoothStepper drivers, I tried downloading, them, copying the .dll from the current machine.

Can you please let me know if Win 10 just sn't doable, or if I'm missing something else?

thank you