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General Mach Discussion / Re: Another RUN FROM HERE bug with smooth stepper

« on: November 16, 2011, 11:11:28 AM »

Screen shots

showing DRO`s  and Prep move
the forum is pitching a fit wwith uploading pics

they are out of order in the list but should go from
feed hold
jog move
prep move

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General Mach Discussion / Another RUN FROM HERE bug with smooth stepper

« on: November 16, 2011, 10:59:23 AM »

I did try a search...
Smooth stepper with latest driver
look ahead I have tried 20 to 200 lines
Here is what I am seeing on 3 different machines with the latest .40 mach ver registered
Create a g code with the pocket wizard.
Zero out machine and dry run g code. 
press  FEED HOLD
Jog all axis`s to different location
Press the run from here button
Cycle start and I get the preparation move box

I notice that Y axis prep always has 0 in it.

on .020 with a printer port  I cannot run from here at all it puts me in the Cycle start / prep move/cycle start loop

Any ideas?

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Has ANYONE gotten a MaxNC15 CL to work?

« on: July 18, 2011, 02:59:43 PM »

you cant go wrong with putting the G540 on the maxnc, it will be a world of difference.  I myself have a very long history with the JUNK maxnc puts into their controllers.  it is just that.... JUNK.  They dont last, mine blew out twice within the first year.  You cannot get support, and if you do, it takes months on turn around.  But, if you want to spend money, they will answer the phone and emails!

I think i was the first one to put a G540 on a maxnc 15.  MAN OHHH MAN!!!!!!  Its a different machine when you do that!
I wonder if my conversion thread is still active on the cnczone.  If so, go look at what I was able to to.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Is there a Code to put into a program to have mach probe

« on: March 30, 2011, 01:10:19 PM »

i appreciate the reply,

can you elaborate on how to write the macro?  I have never done it before....... just pretend like Im an idiot..... better yet, dont pretend LOLOL

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General Mach Discussion / Is there a Code to put into a program to have mach probe

« on: March 30, 2011, 09:20:58 AM »

Is there a Code lto put into a program to have mach probe?
I want to be able to add a line of code in my program to have mach probe the tool and then start running the program.

Any such animal?

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General Mach Discussion / Setting Spindle motor control problem

« on: March 17, 2011, 10:14:29 AM »

I am trying to setup a cnc4pc c6 spindle speed controller.  But this piece of hardware is not the problem.  I am setting up mach 3 for step and dir motor.
If I setup only the relay in the outputs and leave the spindle disabled in motor outputs and click the spindle button in mach it will light up and if I click the spindle button again it will go the led will go off.  As soon as I enable the spindle motor with step 14 dir 16 and tune the motor to steps per 1000 vel all the way up and accell mid way across the slider bar.  Now when I click the spindle button I can hear the relay click on the spindle controller, and the spindle LED comes on.  If I click the spindle button again to turn it off, the relay clicks again, but the LED stays lit and will not respond to further commands.  Hit reset and use the m03 s ********* relay clicks led comes on, m04 relay clicks led stays lit and it wont respond.

Funny thing is, I installed mach on my office machine, tried setting up a new xml with all the settings that I know "SHOULD WORK" and the new install does the same thing.  Not connected to any hardware.

Dug out my old laptop tried it on there.  Same thing, updated to the latest lock down, still does it.  after messing with just the relay settings, and spindle motor settings I was finally able to make it work.  Or better yet, it finally decided to work.  Go threw all the settings, come set my "TEST" install up in my office the exact same way, and it refuses to turn off the spindle led.  On the laptop, I did note that if the acceleration setting for the spindle is very low it takes a bit of time before mach will release the spindle and turn off the led.  For the life of me, I cannot figure out why its so having trouble.  I have set these up before in the past and every time I have had to fight with the spindle settings for a long period of time before mach 3 "Decided" to work.


Anyone have any ideas?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 5 axis mill with trunion, view port issues

« on: March 10, 2011, 12:21:43 PM »

that has been done already

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General Mach Discussion / 5 axis mill with trunion, view port issues

« on: March 10, 2011, 11:54:36 AM »

loading up g code of a 5 axis toolpath, I cannot get the view port to display the code correctly.

I get the cross hairs and an arc, but that is it.

Anything I should know about getting the viewport to display 5 axis code correctly?

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: 1987 Bridgeport Production Center Interact 412 to Mach3 Conversion

« on: February 10, 2011, 04:47:38 PM »

Well, I seem to be making headway on this project.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbFvSJTBnDg

now, if I convert the numbers over to metric that are in the beginning of the script, I should be able to run in metric mode, is that a good assumption?

That and I need to find a better, higher precision probe.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: 1987 Bridgeport Production Center Interact 412 to Mach3 Conversion

« on: February 09, 2011, 09:09:36 AM »

i tried setting it up on my testing pc, with no machine attached.  To do all the button mapping ect.  I mapped the probe to a key on the keyboard and start one of the macros and press the button on the keyboard.  The probe LED lights up but the macro doesnt change.........  I see that this is setup in inches, so I changed my native units to inches as well.  Still no dice.  Does it need a hardware probe on pin 15 or should what Im doing trigger the macros functions?  Like I said, Im trying to "PROOF" it right now before implementing it on a machine.