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General Mach Discussion / Re: Auto Tool Setting with SUPER Small Bits, Help.

« on: November 29, 2018, 01:55:41 AM »

Maybe. LOL I've been doing this for decades now and as complex are the things I do and build there is SOOO much more to learn or implement.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Auto Tool Setting with SUPER Small Bits, Help.

« on: November 28, 2018, 11:38:36 PM »

Got it all setup! Made a precision ground aluminum block. Works awesome, Thanks again for your help.

As a test I did a couple tests using a Tool Setter as the touch off block to see if it moves at all when the bit hits and it the needle didn't flinch. Pretty amazing stuff.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Auto Tool Setting with SUPER Small Bits, Help.

« on: November 28, 2018, 01:02:22 AM »

HAAA!!! Sorry who said that.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Auto Tool Setting with SUPER Small Bits, Help.

« on: November 28, 2018, 12:11:58 AM »

Ah cool. Thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Auto Tool Setting with SUPER Small Bits, Help.

« on: November 27, 2018, 11:27:35 PM »

Oh, is there a script I have to add? Or where do I find the built in one, cause I assume there are values to change?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Auto Tool Setting with SUPER Small Bits, Help.

« on: November 27, 2018, 11:24:32 PM »

AHHHH, Momma always said not to touch!! Cool.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Auto Tool Setting with SUPER Small Bits, Help.

« on: November 27, 2018, 10:08:17 PM »

Ok i get hooking it up to pokeys, pretty easy I suspect. Take a pin on Pokeys and GND. One goes to the spindle and one goes to the plate I'm touching off of. Set up in Pokeys is simple just enable probe and fill in the fields. I've done that before.

What I can't find is where the script is or where the button is like in Mach 3 to Auto Tool Zero.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Auto Tool Setting with SUPER Small Bits, Help.

« on: November 27, 2018, 06:01:11 PM »

Joe, AGAIN THANKS!!

Can you recommend a post or tutorial on how to set this system up with Mach 4 and my Pokeys board?

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General Mach Discussion / Auto Tool Setting with SUPER Small Bits, Help.

« on: November 27, 2018, 05:52:15 PM »

So I've never used a touch plate to set the Z height of tooling before, but would like to set it up in Mach 4. I'm sure there's lots of posts about this, but the search function is still not working, but my question is this I use some super small bits .0156" to be exact. I mean they are tiny. If I use the auto tool set feature in Mach 4 and it brings a .0156" bit down to a touch plate is that going to break my bit. I mean once conductivity is present how quickly does Mach 4 and my Pokeys57CNC react?

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Mach4 General Discussion / How to get step .001 jog function on a button

« on: November 27, 2018, 05:48:48 PM »

I need to use one of my Pokeys 57CNC's pins to be able to step jog .001. In the Pokeys pendent screen there is a Step .001, Step .01, etc. and there is Inc. Jog, but when I enable them nothing works. The button input is working as it changes states when pressed in pokeys.

How do I accomplish this? I need to it to function like when you hit the CTRL key on the keyboard and it allows you to jog the increment you set in Mach.