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Feature Requests / Re: Online Tool Height control

« on: December 30, 2015, 03:18:32 AM »

Just a couple of things to think about...

Engineering wise it was a bit complex but I had a similar issue where I needed to adjust the position of a Y axis during a Gcode run. I cant give you full details because it was a commercial venture but the Y axis was driven by two stepper motors acting through a differential gear - one motor did all the work (following the Gcode instructions) whilst the other stepper motor provided the + / - adjustment and was driven (controlled) by a separate PLC which took sensor information as it's input.

For a Z axis it may be possible to make a circular mounting for the stepper motor which is rotationally adjustable (by hand perhaps) for say 45 degrees in each direction and easily locked in position. This would provide 1/4 the leadscrew pitch in vertical adjustment of the axis. Greater rotational adjustment (within the limitation of the wiring) = greater vertical adjustment of the axis.

Tweakie.

3702

General Mach Discussion / Re: keyboard control

« on: December 30, 2015, 02:53:19 AM »

Hi Tom,

Welcome to the forum.

If reassigning the hotkeys does not work for you then there could be an issue with your Mach3 installation. A re-install of Mach3 may cure the problem.

Before uninstalling the existing version and installing new...

 Backup the following to the desktop, or even better, a USB drive:

XML(Profile) – This stores you’re settings for Mach3, if you lose it you will need to re-setup you’re ports and pins, motor tuning, etc.
Screensets
Macros/Brains



Tweakie.

3703

General Mach Discussion / Re: Charge Pump Issues (Blade Runner II & Mach 3)

« on: December 30, 2015, 02:29:58 AM »

The weird part is the images I posted have a different name than those I was trying to post, I had to save them from my Google account.

The particular image name may have been used by someone else in the past (stranger things have happened  )

Tweakie.

3704

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 V2 Windows 10

« on: December 29, 2015, 02:18:02 PM »

Thanks for posting the information Don.

Tweakie.

3705

General Mach Discussion / Re: Charge Pump Issues (Blade Runner II & Mach 3)

« on: December 29, 2015, 02:14:48 PM »

Its saying I have already posted the first 4 images

Each image has to have a unique name (an image with a particular name cannot be posted more than once).

do image posts have to be checked by a mod?!?!

No. But as I said it is best to use the Additional Options tab to post the image.

This is the most confusing forum setup ive ever used...

Give it time you will soon master it. 

Ended up being a failed parallel port driver, Re-ran the install and it works great now.  I have no idea how it failed the first time.

I am pleased that you have it sorted.

Tweakie.

3706

General Mach Discussion / Re: Has to be a record (way too funny)

« on: December 29, 2015, 02:00:27 AM »

I think 21 posts a day does hold the record (unfortunately most of them were rants about cars, brakes, brick walls etc. and nothing to do with the actual problem which incidentally Gerry identified in reply #2).

Tweakie.

3707

General Mach Discussion / Re: Limit switch issues

« on: December 28, 2015, 12:59:14 PM »

Just a heads-up...

Until such time as Mike's license situation has been satisfactorily resolved with NFS he has been excluded from the forum.

Tweakie.

3708

General Mach Discussion / Re: Limit switch issues

« on: December 28, 2015, 12:38:37 PM »

Mike,

I think you have a major attitude problem - I take exception to you calling members of this forum Trolls. Perhaps an apology from you would be in order.

Have you actually purchased a Mach3 license in you own name or are you continuing to use somebody else's license file. ??

Tweakie.

3709

General Mach Discussion / Re: Limit switch issues

« on: December 28, 2015, 11:55:47 AM »

Enabled the limits, after I asked and he told me that they were, even though they were not.

Thanks Gerry,

That is exactly what you asked him in reply #2 (he could have saved 14 pages of other peoples time).

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Limit switch issues

« on: December 28, 2015, 10:50:37 AM »

Hi Mike,

So what exactly is it that you have done to cure the problem ??

Tweakie.