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General Mach Discussion / Re: last used screen not reloading at startup

« on: February 08, 2020, 10:11:58 AM »

Hi Fred,

It works that way for me so maybe something has happened to your Mach3 installation.

The only other thing I can suggest is to re-load Mach3 over the top of your existing installation and see if that corrects the problem (make a secure backup of your existing Mach3 folder first).

Tweakie.

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Tangent Corner / Re: It's a Dog thing.

« on: February 08, 2020, 04:22:12 AM »

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Feed rate accelerating/decelerating question.

« on: February 08, 2020, 01:28:05 AM »

Unfortunately using the F### command to alter the feed-rate breaks the constant velocity chain so the motion will be jerky if you string a number of linear moves with different feed-rates together.

What exactly do you want to achieve with a varying feed-rate ?

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: last used screen not reloading at startup

« on: February 08, 2020, 01:21:35 AM »

Hi Fred,

Within Mach3 select View / Load Screens then select the screen .set of your choice.
Close Mach3.
Next time Mach3 is run it will show the screen you have chosen.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 problems with axis

« on: February 07, 2020, 09:55:30 AM »

Quote

however with this configuration, any curve will translate on the software moving the spindle in a complete circle.

Change the IJ Mode in Config / General Config to eliminate the 'crop circles'.

Tweakie.

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Mach4 Plugins / Re: XHC WB04 plugin

« on: February 07, 2020, 01:12:50 AM »

Quote from: B34R on February 06, 2020, 03:52:22 PM

The theory I am starting out on is kinda simple... If I can write a small driver (windows/app) that takes inputs from the WHB04B and interprets them as keystrokes (like from a wireless keybord) we could then simply assign keyboard "hotkeys" using MACH's built in functions...

Sounds like an excellent project.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 problems with axis

« on: February 06, 2020, 02:01:34 AM »

Mach3 saves your previous settings (contained in the xmlbackups folder).

Within Mach3 select Operator / Restore Settings... and choose a backup from a date before you altered your settings and caused the problem.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 lathe teach

« on: February 06, 2020, 01:47:27 AM »

Hi Fred,

There is a lot of learning to do but it is not complicated stuff and can be fun.

Download the document; https://www.machsupport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Mach2_6.11_Custom.pdf
Section 3 explains how to use a Screen Designer.

Load your lathe screen and add the 2 buttons (Teach ON / Teach OFF - both would be Execute VB Script buttons). The VB Script for the buttons would be as follows;

For the ON button;

OpenTeachFile”MDITeach.tap”

For the OFF button;

CloseTeachFile

Save your changes and that’s about it.

Hope this helps,

Tweakie.

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