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General Mach Discussion / Re: FEED HOLD

« on: January 11, 2016, 02:28:18 AM »

This product is best left in someones garage or basement as a 'toy'....it does not belong in any industrial environment regardless of anyones personal opinion to the contrary.

I think this implies that anyone else’s personal opinion is inferior to your personal opinion which is, of course, quite untrue.
The whole process of forum dwelling is all about sharing knowledge although (as demonstrated in this thread) we certainly don’t all share the same opinion.
As for “toy” software, well I think that if we had a poll you would be out-voted on that one.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: FEED HOLD

« on: January 11, 2016, 02:26:54 AM »

I've been out in the garage and I've used Feedhold, then Cycle Start 4 or 5 times. I've never had a problem doing it that way. That's generally the way it's intended to work. Once you hit Stop, you usually need to use Run From Here to continue.

That is the way it was intended to work and indeed the way it used to work until a later revision changed it’s behaviour.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: FEED HOLD

« on: January 10, 2016, 12:19:07 PM »

If you hit Stop then you will loose exact position.
If you are using version .066 then problems are to be expected - version .062 seems to be the favorite of most.
Feed-Hold and when motion stops then Stop is the way to go. 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: over my head in 4th axis

« on: January 10, 2016, 06:55:44 AM »

Not much help but an A axis is usually set to angular, in that way any Gcode commands represent degrees of rotation (assuming you have the steps per unit set correctly).

The Mach3 manual explains in more detail about the steps per unit setup   http://www.machsupport.com/help-learning/product-manuals/

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: parameters

« on: January 10, 2016, 05:49:32 AM »

As Roger has said but it’s tricky to find - this may help...

http://www.machsupport.com/software/downloads-updates/

FTP Downloads / FTP Server -  Main Menu  / Docs / Mach3Mill_1.84.pdf

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: FEED HOLD

« on: January 10, 2016, 03:36:04 AM »

To pause motion the correct sequence (as you have discovered) is Feed Hold then Stop.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: code for a repeat single axis driller

« on: January 09, 2016, 11:15:27 AM »

Please correct me if I am wrong but I suspect that the .xml file posted has been taken from the CNC Router Parts installation disk rather than from Jim's Mach3 folder ??

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach 3 axis not running as DROs

« on: January 09, 2016, 10:22:19 AM »

I look forward to seeing your pictures and video 

Tweakie.

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

« on: January 09, 2016, 02:22:08 AM »

Hi Dave & Mark,

Welcome to the forum.

Mach3 runs just fine under Windows 10.
You will need to use an external motion controller (ESS, etc.) as the LPT parallel port cannot be used from Win8 and onwards or with 64bit OS's.

Tweakie.

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Brains Development / Re: About Using Formulas

« on: January 08, 2016, 11:08:21 AM »

how to write plugin

Any sample plugin guide

I think my first port of call would be;  FTP Downloads / Docs / Plugin Bible.pdf  http://www.machsupport.com/software/downloads-updates/

Tweakie.