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General Mach Discussion / Re: Homing double touch the home switch

« on: May 27, 2020, 10:54:04 AM »

The button editor says DoButton (24)  DoButton (23) DoButton (22) 
This is what i get when I do that.

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General Mach Discussion / Homing double touch the home switch

« on: May 26, 2020, 11:38:13 PM »

So, I have been using mach3 for a LONNNGGGGG time.
Now I am trying to get the homing routine a little more accurate.
What I have now is I click home all or home+probe on my screenset
The button editor says DoButton (24)  DoButton (23) DoButton (22) 
when I click home all it goes and touches the home switch, then reverses and stops.

What I would like to happen is it bounces off the switch, then move the axis 1mm away and repeats the process at 20mm per minute.

I cannot find the DoButton script.  Or How do I edit the button?

I appriciate the help, I do not know much about VB editing, but I am learning more and more.

Thanks

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Mach4 General Discussion / Need the answer to this question "Is Mach4 a "MACHINE CONTROLLER"

« on: June 14, 2018, 01:36:29 PM »

I have been going around and around with a guy in a facebook group who is insistent that mach4 is not a Machine controller because it does not control the motion of the machine like Mach3 did with a parallel port.   He is basing his argument on the fact that mach4 needs an external motion controller.

I dont know how else to explain to him that Mach is the "Machine controller"  just as UCCNC, LinuxCNC, TurboCNC (yes I even used it back in the day before mach1 came around) are all "MACHINE CONTROLLERS"

I even provided him with the first line on the Mach4 page

Mach4 Information: Mach4 is our newest version of CNC motion control software.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Windows 10 update -- don't do it

« on: May 08, 2018, 05:18:01 PM »

does anyone know of a work around or patch by chance?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Windows 10 update -- don't do it

« on: May 07, 2018, 06:31:59 PM »

do we know if Mach3 uses Visual C++?  I am dreading this bomb as the company I tech for has hundreds of mach3 installs on windows 10

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 w/smoothstepper and EStop issue...

« on: April 18, 2018, 09:27:41 AM »

Oscar, go into the SS plug in and set the watchdog timer to 3.1

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Windows 10 update causes erratic movements

« on: March 16, 2018, 07:30:40 AM »

knowing that an update has caused the erratic motion, that tells me that something is running in the background.  Start looking for resource hogs and killing processes.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 issues with new computer

« on: December 04, 2017, 01:14:14 PM »

My best suggestion would be to get a motion controller that is well known.  I would recommend a UC100 motion controller.  I have setup several of them and I personally own and use 2 ESS and 3 UC products.  I prefer the UC line.
I would then go with a new cheap windows 7, 8 10 computer and a clean fresh install and setup the machine again from scratch.  As Ger21 said, the .062 version seems to be the best one.
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,36095.0.html
That is how I would approach what you are dealing with right now. 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach 3, motors will not run

« on: September 29, 2017, 02:18:03 PM »

the the printer port on the computer an add in PCI card or built into the mother board?
If its onboard, you need to check in the bios that it is in EPP or ECP mode.

If it is a add in card, then the recourse address is going to be different then the address in Mach3.

You need to check in device manager what the recourse values are (normally 4 different hexadecimals)
You will need to put each one into the mach3 address field for port 1 and see which set of addresses runs the machine the best.

Also, if its a xylotex controller based off of what he was putting out years ago, you will have to deal with the  resonance issues that I delt with until going to a G450 drive.

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General Mach Discussion / UC300ETH and M45 board connection error message

« on: September 29, 2017, 02:06:35 PM »

I just got done working on a controller that has the UC300ETH on a M45 hooked to a C62R5 (but that is irrelevant)
After setting up the network, firewall ect I could ping the UC300, the UC Utility found the UC300 and everything checked out perfectly. 

Using both the manual plug in installer and the automatic installer upon starting mach3 and choosing the UC300 plug in I got an error message.  UC300 not found check connection
I tried reinstalling mach3 using the .062 (my favorite) and the .066.
Tried different network cables.  Direct connection to the PC

I have found that the current plug in at the time of this writing will not work with the M45 board.
UC300ETH V1_013

Talked with Arturo for a few and he remembered that the plug in would not work and sent me the UC300ETH V1_015 plug in and has also emailed them about updating the plug in on the download page.
Just FYI in case anyone else runs into this.