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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Help with Mach 4 controlling a PLC for tool changes.

« on: January 30, 2018, 10:04:42 PM »

Who's lovin' Modbus??? Me. Thanks a bunch all of you. Lathe is a treat.

Assigning modus and getting it work with buttons in Mach 4 is actually rather easy. Took me all of like 5 minutes. Most of that was cut and paste of the script. Ran my first g-code with multiple tool changes just now. Pretty cool!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Lathe Tool Table Setting Tools Help

« on: January 30, 2018, 12:45:23 PM »

LOl I was just doing that.

So for others information, yes the tool table is the tool offsets. T01 is just for the tool position, the second 2 numbers are for the tool offsets and refer to the tool table.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Lathe Tool Table Setting Tools Help

« on: January 30, 2018, 10:51:59 AM »

In Mach 4 Lathe Tool Table are the numbers referring to the tool offsets? I've always wondered about that. I need to know because sometimes I put different tools in the 8th position of my tool changer.

So when running a program would T0808 refer to tool 8 (position in the tool changer) with a tool I call 8? Then T0809 would be a tool in position 8 in my tool changer but reads the offsets I set in the tool table under #9, and so on?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Help with Mach 4 controlling a PLC for tool changes.

« on: January 29, 2018, 09:53:12 PM »

If I'm running Gcode I can't use the gui anyway, right?

I'll look at the modules thing.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Help with Mach 4 controlling a PLC for tool changes.

« on: January 29, 2018, 09:25:30 PM »

Ah, I didn't notice.

Does that make a difference if it's locks up the GUI? I mean I'm running code and have to let it complete first anyway.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Help with Mach 4 controlling a PLC for tool changes.

« on: January 29, 2018, 06:59:09 PM »

Yes the DROs update. Why do you ask, you seemed surprised?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Help with Mach 4 controlling a PLC for tool changes.

« on: January 29, 2018, 02:03:18 PM »

Don't know. I'll check and let you know.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting More Inputs, How do you?

« on: January 29, 2018, 02:02:38 PM »

Interesting.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting More Inputs, How do you?

« on: January 28, 2018, 09:02:32 PM »

Chaoticone? If you read my other post for the tool changer you'll see I made a stupid mistake. Well I almost made another one. I was going to wire to my Pokeys more inputs and assign some code so I press a button and have mach do tool changes when I'm manually machining without Gcode. Then it hit me what you said above. I already have the tool changer buttons wired up to my PLC, that's how I did tool changes before you guys helped me with the programming.

All I have to do it change my ladder a little and program the modbus in mach!!!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Help with Mach 4 controlling a PLC for tool changes.

« on: January 28, 2018, 08:46:01 PM »

DERP!!! AHHHHH Well I feel stupid. I did program a button to make the carriage go to the tool change position and I knew it then, but forgot....My Mach Coord is 0,0, so it would be negative!!! I was trying to go positive! I feel stupid.

I put in the code above but, mc.mcCntlGcodeExecuteWait(inst,"G53 G00 X-0.25 Z-0.25") and it works perfectly.