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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: which motion controllers have a plug in that supports threading In Mach4

« on: January 22, 2019, 10:24:35 AM »

pmdx

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbies getting started

« on: December 31, 2018, 12:10:05 PM »

I use Mach4 now for 2 years.

Mach3 Licensed version has unlimited lines. 

When you load a .tap or .txt gcode file are there any error messages in the Status/History window?  such as 'bad Character on line...' or 'unsupported gcode'

Did you use the Mach3 post processor from fusion360?

Does the roadrunner.tap file load and display?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbies getting started

« on: December 31, 2018, 11:35:08 AM »

Beverly30,

Mach3 does have a 500 gCode line limit in the demo mode.

Perhaps it is just terminology but Mach3 does not display dxf files, only gcode.  If in fact you were trying to display a dxf you will first have to run it through some CAM program to generate gcode.

HTH

RT

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Non Linear Spindle Speed?

« on: December 17, 2018, 12:09:47 PM »

If your HiCon can't be configured you might want to take a look at this hack:

http://forum.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,36020.msg246708.html#msg246708

HTH

RT

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4, Modbus and HuanYang VFDs

« on: November 24, 2018, 02:58:19 PM »

For YaNvrNo,

Couldn't find the diagram or the chip but I was able to find the posts on the subject:

+  Machsupport Forum
|-+  Mach Discussion
| |-+  Mach SDK plugin questions and answers.
| | |-+  Finished Plugins for Download
| | | |-+  Huanyang VFD controller plugin

page 24, response 230


Which has a pic of the board as it should be and I took a pic of my VFD today which shows the missing u4 chip.

HTH

RT

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4, Modbus and HuanYang VFDs

« on: November 23, 2018, 12:06:59 PM »

No snark taken.  If you have ever seen me post anything related to electronics you would have seen that I admit I am electronically challenged!
I don't recall the sequence but after trying to get modbus to work I got a translated copy of the hy manual and the diagram.  I asked for the missing modbus chip and they sent it along with a diagram as to where to solder.  I never did since I didn't have the right solder tools and feared that I would screw up the board.  By then I had it running without modbus checked using step and direction for the spindle from the smooth stepper board.

Again, I am electronically challenged and I guess this doesn't prove that I am not using modbus but I wouldn't know how to check that is working/available,

RT

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4, Modbus and HuanYang VFDs

« on: November 21, 2018, 10:57:34 AM »

That was 10+ years ago.  I think I found a user manual that had a drawing with the modbus chip depicted.  Don't have it now.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4, Modbus and HuanYang VFDs

« on: November 20, 2018, 11:46:54 AM »

don't have an answer for the question at hand but make sure that your hy vfd actually came with the modbus chip, mine didn't.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Add or edit Mach4 Lathe screen

« on: November 09, 2018, 02:20:42 PM »

local snd=wx.wxSound('c:\\Windows\\Media\\chord.wav',0)
snd:Play()

HTH

RT

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Lathe error on start up

« on: October 30, 2018, 10:54:59 AM »

It appears that there is more to the message.  Drag the message box right side to widen it and see if there is more information.  The message tells you where the offending code is.  Line 768 of the screen script.  To view it, Operator->View Screen Script, scroll down to line 768. 

I searched my screen load script and there is no call to mcToolSetData so either you have written a function that does use it or it is being called by some other function.

HTH

RT