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General Mach Discussion / Re: Optical Registration Mark Reading With Mach3

« on: January 29, 2014, 11:31:43 AM »

You could certainly do it without the laser pointer and just by using the tool point if you wish.

Only linear distortion (scale) is easily catered for at run-time.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Optical Registration Mark Reading With Mach3

« on: January 29, 2014, 07:25:18 AM »

Here is a thread relating to the laser cross hair pointer http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,10841.0.html

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Optical Registration Mark Reading With Mach3

« on: January 29, 2014, 06:07:11 AM »

A visual location method and local system rotate was discussed in a earlier thread http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,22932.0.html
It is not difficult nor expensive to implement.

Tweakie.

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

« on: January 29, 2014, 05:47:18 AM »

Hi Andy, welcome to the forum.

If you post your question as a new topic in the General Mach Discussion section it is more likely to get a response offering suggestions which will resolve your problem.

Tweakie.

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Tangent Corner / Re: Mist coolant

« on: January 29, 2014, 04:03:44 AM »

I don't need a large volume of coolant mist spray so I use one of the simple inline oilers that are used with air tools.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: keyboard loss functionality

« on: January 29, 2014, 03:55:54 AM »

Sounds as though you may have turned off the Jog ON/OFF button on the main screen (It should have a green border to enable keyboard jogging).

Tweakie.

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Galil / Re: Problems with losing position

« on: January 28, 2014, 03:02:05 AM »

Is there a way to check if the license is legit?  I have upgraded Mach3 and Galil plugin both without issue,seems that would catch an illegal license?

Check with licensing http://www.machsupport.com/contact-us/

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: January 27, 2014, 03:24:08 AM »

 

Tweakie.

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One on one phone support. / Re: Need Help. Motors not responding.

« on: January 27, 2014, 02:59:40 AM »

As the steppers are not 'locked' when power is applied, in my opinion, this indicates that you are missing an 'enable' signal on one, or more, pins.

Because of the poor documentation supplied with you machine you will have to find the pin by 'trial and error'.
In Ports & Pins : Output Signals - enable Enable#1 and set it to Port#1 then try each of the pin numbers 1,8,9,14,16,17 in turn both Active Hi and Active Low until you find the right one (lets hope it is pin 1).

Tweakie.

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One on one phone support. / Re: Need Help. Motors not responding.

« on: January 26, 2014, 04:14:59 AM »

Try changing your step signals state to Dir Low Active checked (in Motor Outputs) and see if that makes any difference.

As you are aware Max NC mode allocates and drives the pins in a different way to your controller requirements so stay clear of that.

Try selecting Sherline 1/2 Pulse Mode and see if that makes any difference.

It could be that your allocation of pin# is totally incorrect in motor tuning but I would still expect some response with the setting you currently have.
Whilst the machine is connected and has no response are the motors locked (unable to easily rotate by hand) ??

Tweakie.