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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Is Mach4 really Hobby Material?

« on: January 18, 2018, 06:51:41 PM »

Dude1

This thread was probably not the best one to post your question 

If I understand you correctly you're talking about using Mach4 to run different operations (mill, turn) on one machine.  You can using different profiles.

Mach4 has different subdirectories for each 'Profile' you create and each profile has a 'macros' subdirectory that only its profile accesses.  Your m4Lathe profile will only use the macros within the m4Lathe\macros directory, etc.

If your trying to do combine mill and lathe operations using the same profile then there can only be on m2000 macro.

HTH

RT

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Mach4 Videos / Re: Lathe Canned Cycles

« on: January 18, 2018, 04:12:10 PM »

Yes but it will save others hours of time learning the nuances of creating job files, renaming, posting only certain parts of the job when developing.  It's a beginning!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Switches for Home position

« on: January 18, 2018, 04:08:11 PM »

Craig,

What speed do you home at to get your switch to have that accuracy.  I just ordered one so any info would be helpful.

RT

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Mach4 Videos / Lathe Canned Cycles

« on: January 18, 2018, 03:36:19 PM »

Here is a video made by MachMotion that explain the lathe canned cycles usage.  From there you can go to other videos of specific canned cycles

https://youtu.be/mIPQJgzdX_I

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

« on: January 18, 2018, 03:33:36 PM »

Thanks Bryanna!  I will post the link in the videos section of Mach4.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: crash on starting edit mode

« on: January 18, 2018, 03:29:59 PM »

Reinhard,  please let us know what the people at NFS come back with after you send them your package.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Feature Request

« on: January 18, 2018, 02:42:10 PM »

Fix the canned cycle custom G code so that when you save and reload or quit Mach4 and restart any empty/blank lines don't get read back in with this result:

...
g0 x1
g0 z1

m3

g0x5
m5

....

comes back as

g0 x1
g0 z1
(------------------------------------)
((((((((((ERROR READING LINE))))))))))
(------------------------------------)
m3
(------------------------------------)
((((((((((ERROR READING LINE))))))))))
(------------------------------------)
g0x5
m5
(------------------------------------)
((((((((((ERROR READING LINE))))))))))
(------------------------------------)
(------------------------------------)
((((((((((ERROR READING LINE))))))))))
(------------------------------------)

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

« on: January 18, 2018, 12:30:58 PM »

unfortunately I am not aware of any manual, papers or other write-ups for the turn wizards.  Would be nice wouldn't it?

here is a link that I found useful in interpreting the output from the wizard: http://www.helmancnc.com/cnc-fanuc-g76-threading-cycle/

I have only used the threading wizard a couple of times so I am unsure of all of the possibilities.  I believe the clearance values are the retract distance from the start values. 

regarding the retract value: http://www.cnc1.com/newsItem/fanuc-tool-retract-recover-retrace

HTH

RT

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Feature Request

« on: January 18, 2018, 11:01:36 AM »

Add checkbox control to screen editor.

MTCW

RT

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Feature Request

« on: January 18, 2018, 10:59:19 AM »

Default screen set for lathe should include the diagnostics page.

MTCW

RT