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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: By all means, I want you to improve Mac4!

« on: September 02, 2021, 07:26:31 AM »

Mach3's Feed Hold does not need to be stopped.

With Mach3 Feed Hold always needs to be followed by Stop. 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / MOVED: Mach4 lathe macros

« on: September 02, 2021, 06:22:32 AM »

This topic has been moved to Mach4 General Discussion.

https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=45232.0

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: By all means, I want you to improve Mac4!

« on: September 02, 2021, 06:20:52 AM »

For Mach3 you need;

1, Feed Hold
2, Stop
3, designation of arbitrary line
4, Rotate Spindle
5, Cycle Start

Tweakie.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: GCODE crashes

« on: September 02, 2021, 12:58:14 AM »

I have sent you a PM.

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: MACH 3 TURN has circles instead of lines

« on: September 01, 2021, 12:29:38 AM »

In Config. / General Config. change the IJ Mode state then regen. the toolpath.
In your Gcode, line 204 'G0T0303' is incorrect.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: DRO Fluctuating after REF ALL HOME

« on: August 30, 2021, 07:55:58 AM »

Hi Karlos73,

Unfortunately this forum does not support Novusun / Digital Dream products due to their continued Mach3 license violation. This thread refers; https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=24331.0

You need to contact the supplier of your Digital Dream UC300 equipment and seek their advice on the appropriate Mach3 settings.

In general, the Chinese motion controllers (which have no manufacturers support) seldom work well and you may find that changing to an EU or USA manufactured motion controller (which do have manufacturers support) is the best way forward.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: May need to change computer that runs my mach 3 mill

« on: August 29, 2021, 01:24:10 AM »

If you have to get another PC then you could perhaps also get an adapter which will let you read the files from your existing HDD (or SSD) via USB. Then you can transfer your existing .xml file to your new PC.

Just a thought.

Tweakie.

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Mach4 Plugins / Re: Mach4 and Addons

« on: August 25, 2021, 12:22:21 AM »

Unfortunately the Mach4 Parallel Port addon is only designed to drive a 'Parallel Port' built into the PC not an external USB to Parallel Port adapter. The PCMI type Parallel Port adapters may be OK but the best option is to use an EU or USA manufactured external motion controller (avoid the Chinese products) such as one of the following;

CNC Drive  -  http://cncdrive.com/
Warp9TD -  https://warp9td.com/
Pokeys -  https://www.poscope.com/product/pokeys57cnc/#tab_downloads
PMDX -  http://www.pmdx.com/
Vital Systems -  https://www.vitalsystem.com/portal/motion/hicon/hicon_integra/hicon_integra.php
CS Lab -  https://en.cs-lab.eu/product/csmioip-s-6-axis-ethernet-motion-controller-stepdir-with-connectors/

Hope this helps,

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Down load Gcode fail

« on: August 24, 2021, 01:50:14 AM »

Its a little quirk in so far as the load file type is stored in your <profile> .xml file which is only updated when Mach3 is shut down.

Set 'File of type' to (*.txt) then load your .txt file. Shutdown then re-open Mach3. It should now be set for loading *.txt files.

(there are probably other ways of doing this but one method is as good as the other)

Tweakie.

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One on one phone support. / Re: mach 3 setup?

« on: August 22, 2021, 05:17:43 AM »