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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Conditional programming

« on: March 20, 2018, 11:02:51 AM »

What Craig said is true.  You can do what you said though.

#1=.050 ; starting z value
M98 P1234 L10  call subprogram 10 times
M30

o1234
;do your moves
#1=[#1-.003] ;decrement Z
M99
%



Otherwise you need to use VB scripts.

HTH

RT

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: 7x10 CNC Lathe

« on: March 20, 2018, 10:51:32 AM »

Converted my 7x14 Microlux last year, same condition as yours (15 years old) and it looks like we're both using the same control box. I am using pmdx-411 and Mach4.  You will love the results using CSS.

Enjoy,

RT

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: How to setup Auto Zero button in latest version of Mach4

« on: March 20, 2018, 10:31:10 AM »

When you debug this in the editor using F5, then stepping through each line by using successive  f11's, what line does it fail on?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Debugging Lua code...

« on: March 13, 2018, 12:47:49 PM »

from modules directory mcErrorCheck.lua

• = 'MERROR_NOERROR',

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Debugging Lua code...

« on: March 13, 2018, 12:34:39 PM »

from modules directory mcErrorCheck.lua

[-17] = 'MERROR_API_INIT',

I have no idea what that means or how to fix it.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: scr.getProperty – Macro Parameters – Registers

« on: February 25, 2018, 07:08:25 PM »

Steve,

Thanks for that.  I posted a suggestion for this in mach4 feature request on January 18th.

It would seem that as a 'best practices' policy that the feature request post be monitored weekly and have your group respond with:

Not going to happen
Will be in the next revision
Already exists
Here is a solution

MTCW

RT

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Home Signal

« on: February 22, 2018, 10:48:58 AM »

Steve, I think that I have one input left and that could work.  When the stepper is not engaged it is parked and I could put a NC switch that would open when parked against it.  Thanks for the idea.

RT

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Home Signal

« on: February 21, 2018, 09:12:43 AM »

But if I did that then I would have no spindle speed feedback and wouldn't be able to do threading.

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PoKeys / PoKeys57CNC, support for g31.1,g31.2,g31.3

« on: February 20, 2018, 07:17:50 PM »

Does PoKeys57CNC have support for Mach4 Probe1,Probe2,Probe3 for g31.1,g31.2,g31.3?

TIA

RT

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Probe1, Probe2,Probe3, PMDX411

« on: February 20, 2018, 06:52:01 PM »

Thanks Steve, not the answer I was hoping for but it sure was answered quickly!