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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!

« on: September 25, 2021, 12:33:09 AM »

Welcome to the forum John.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / MOVED: Cutting thin air

« on: September 25, 2021, 12:31:07 AM »

This topic has been moved to Mach4 General Discussion.

https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=45324.0

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General Mach Discussion / Re: HELP!!! stepper motor running rough in one direction only

« on: September 23, 2021, 01:16:05 AM »

I am pleased that you found the issue and have it sorted 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Running two machines from one pc

« on: September 20, 2021, 08:47:21 PM »

When I was running Mach3 I had two machines which were run from the same PC - a milling machine hooked up to the PC Parallel Port and a router hooked up through an Ethernet smooth stepper. There was no need for me to swap any cables, I just had to select the appropriate Mach3 Profile and switch on the corresponding machine.
Everything changes and nowadays the Parallel Port has gone, everything is connected Ethernet but because they have become so much smaller I now use multiple PC’s.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: HELP!!! stepper motor running rough in one direction only

« on: September 20, 2021, 08:31:11 PM »

I don’t think that checking the pulses will be of any help to you. Mach3 will output exactly the same number of pulses and type / quality of pulses for a +100mm move as it will for a -100mm move the only thing that changes is the active state (logic) of the Direction signal.

If Mach3 drives a stepper in one direction then (within the limits of my knowledge) it will drive it in the other direction unless…
The motor is incorrectly wired or otherwise bad.
The stepper driver is bad.
Mach3 has the step pulse width set incorrectly and or the Step Low Active state set incorrectly (both of these settings are to match the requirements of the stepper driver).
The Mach3 Motor Tuning Velocity and Acceleration settings are set far too high.

If Mach3 had a corrupt installation or other factors were set incorrectly then the stepper motor would not turn correctly in the one direction.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Running two machines from one pc

« on: September 20, 2021, 12:09:10 PM »

Would it be possible to download a second copy of Mach3 on the same pc, run the same plug in and then set up the router.

There is no need to do that just create a new Profile. Then you could create 2 new desktop shortcuts (possibly one called Mill and one called Router). The Mach3 manual gives details on creating different Profiles.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: HELP!!! stepper motor running rough in one direction only

« on: September 20, 2021, 05:57:49 AM »

just a thought, you do have the stepper motor bolted down rigid and not just sitting loose on the bench ?

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: HELP!!! stepper motor running rough in one direction only

« on: September 20, 2021, 05:18:35 AM »

Not good news but as you have thoroughly checked everything else, all that remains is a fault with your gecko g251x

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Circles

« on: September 16, 2021, 08:03:06 AM »

In Config. / General Config.  change the IJ Mode then regen. the toolpath window.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: HELP!!! stepper motor running rough in one direction only

« on: September 16, 2021, 02:42:55 AM »

Perhaps try replacing the stepper motor and/or check that the phase connections are correct (A,+A / B,+B) - check with multimeter rather than rely on wire colours.

Tweakie.