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General Mach Discussion / Re: Lathe arcs G2 G3

« on: May 09, 2019, 10:12:01 AM »

That is the best write up I have seen anywhere for arcs on a lathe, thank you!  That along with one of those three points on a circle calculators and I think I have my answer.

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General Mach Discussion / Lathe arcs G2 G3

« on: May 08, 2019, 11:18:48 AM »

Need a little help understanding G2/G3 on a lathe.

What I would like to do is create a series of ribs along some .75" stock.
.125 in length(Z) and .010 in height(X).

Suggestions as to how to calculate the radius or center of the arc?

TIA

RT

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Loop Counter

« on: May 01, 2019, 11:01:16 AM »

 Soooo....you're saying there may be hope?   

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Mach4 General Discussion / Loop Counter

« on: April 29, 2019, 01:43:32 PM »

When you run a subprogram (i.e. m98 p1234 L10) is there a register or other accessible variable that can be accessed to display the current loop number, the number of loops left and number of loops requested?

TIA

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: 3 position toggle button

« on: April 13, 2019, 12:15:19 PM »

My initial approach would be to use a regular button and on the LeftUp script I would check the label:
If scr.getProperty("MyBtnName","Label")=="ON" then
  scr.setProperty("MyBtnName","Label","OFF")
  set a register or send a signal and or change the background color or call a function
else If scr.getProperty("MyBtnName","Label")=="OFF" then
  scr.setProperty("MyBtnName","Label","AUTO")
  set a register or send a signal and or change the background color or call a function
else If scr.getProperty("MyBtnName","Label")=="AUTO" then
   scr.setProperty("MyBtnName","Label","ON")
  set a register or send a signal and or change the background color or call a function
end

Haven't done any LUA programming lately so you would have to check the above syntax for errors.

HTH

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3: Expose APIs from Mach4.Document

« on: April 10, 2019, 12:29:39 PM »

It's been many years since I developed my Mach3 COM wrapper.  I was using Delphi which is object pascal.

https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=32144.0

 I have attached another pascal file (renamed .txt for upload).  I think you could rewrite it to C++ fairly easily.


HTH

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Turn Cycles - Taper

« on: March 14, 2019, 10:04:44 AM »

Seriously!!?? I looked at that graphic over and over and over and yet missed the Xi and Xf placement.  Sorry for being so dense.  thanks

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Mach4 General Discussion / Turn Cycles - Taper

« on: March 13, 2019, 04:04:23 PM »

Trying to turn a morse 2 taper using the turn Cycles Taper Cycle.  I thought I could just enter .375 for Xi, .5 for Xf and  1.4307 for the angle and it would determine the z Distance.  I an't find any combination of buttons, purple square looks right but I get the "IDOD dimensions for X don't match" message.

Anyone know how this is supposed to be done using taper cycles?

Can't find any documentation.

TIA

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: pmdx411 cannot communicate with device

« on: March 13, 2019, 03:34:52 PM »

Just wanted to update.  Got the ferrite cores and installed per Steve's direction and that solved the problem.

Thank you!!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: First Successful LUA script, Power Drawbar with a timer

« on: March 08, 2019, 11:27:05 AM »

Thanks for sharing.  It is always nice to have a piece of working code that others can adapt or extend.

RT