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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Message Box with Cancel?

« on: February 08, 2018, 02:52:29 PM »

Correct me if i'm wrong but wx.wxGetNumberFromUser() only works with integers. 

hth

rt

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach Motion Lathe Wizards Bug? Help.

« on: February 06, 2018, 10:51:27 AM »

I can only think of wo things to try.

Cycle through the button right of the 'E2' button unitl it allows you to check the 'No finish pass' checkbox. Check and uncheck the 'No roughing' checkbox, run again.

Each canned cycle that is saved has an ini file with the settings used.  The groove cycle has a setting called 'RoughingCheck=false' on my machine.  It would seem to me that it should be set to true with the type of groove you are doing since the 'No finish pass' is grayed out.  It appears to be using the finish pass settings, so get to where you can change those to what you have set in the roughing settings.  This doesn't address shy your tool settings don't change. 

Neither I nor Craig can replicate your problem so I am out of ideas.

RT

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: G91 - Lathe

« on: February 05, 2018, 05:32:10 PM »

Lathe does not support incremental/relative moves for the A or B axis. 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach Motion Lathe Wizards Bug? Help.

« on: February 03, 2018, 01:53:56 PM »

Took a look at your pictures of the code and the settings.  First thing that I notice is that the spindle speed and the feed rate in the code are the rates that you have for the finishing pass settings.  Yet your screen shot of the settings has the finishing pass grayed out which is correct for the type of groove you have selected.  So this code was not generated from these settings.

The file name of the code is not what you get from Post directly from the canned cycles or from View Toolpath.  This file is from some other time you have ran the grooving widget.

Try this, go back into the grooving widget and put your tool and offset to 3 and 14 and then select view toolpath.  Line N0080 should read T0314 (Tool Change).  If it does then we know that you are not using the canned cycle widget correctly.  If it doesn't you need to open a ticket with NFS.

I'm sure you have the widget settings set to 'Load Last Cycles' instead of 'Use Defaults'.  I don't think that the settings are saved unless you 'Add to Job' and save the job.

RT

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach Motion Lathe Wizards Bug? Help.

« on: February 02, 2018, 05:46:22 PM »

Just ran the parting wizard here with the pocket and offset set to 3 and 14 and hit the view toolpath and here is part of the result:

...
N0065 %
N0070 G00 G40 G18 G54 G64 G80 G90.1 G99 G20 (Safe Start Block)
N0075 %

N0080 T0314 (Tool Change)
N0085 G98 (Feed per Minute)
N0090 G97 S2000 (Constant Speed)
N0095 M03 (Spindle Forward)
...

so I can't replicate your  results.  Does the date and time of the gcode coincide with the time you ran the wizard?

RT

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Trouble with M3 and spindle speed

« on: February 01, 2018, 10:49:55 AM »

Not unless you have a need to change the default behavior.  Your code shouldn't be causing this behavior on your physical machine since it runs on the simulator.  It is more likely your motion controller doesn't like one of the codes and stops.  Have you tried eliminating the P7 from the code?

RT

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Trouble with M3 and spindle speed

« on: February 01, 2018, 10:39:11 AM »

No it is not.  It is how you can change the behavior of a M3 command.  Just wanted to make sure that you hadn't put one in and forgot or if you had that the code was okay.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach Motion Lathe Wizards Bug? Help.

« on: February 01, 2018, 10:36:23 AM »

Peck drilling is a canned cycle that remains in effect until a G80 is issued.  Every time you make a move it will issue another peck cycle.  Check the code to see if a g80 is issued after each peck cycle.

HTH

RT

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach Motion Lathe Wizards Bug? Help.

« on: January 31, 2018, 11:22:46 PM »

Could you post the offending code generated by the wizard along with the settings you entered?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Trouble with M3 and spindle speed

« on: January 31, 2018, 04:26:34 PM »

Runs fine in the simulator.

Do you have a spindleSpeed.mcs in your macros directory?  if so post a copy.

What is the p7