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Machscreen Screen Designer / V1.51 bugs

« on: July 09, 2011, 07:57:31 AM »

Klaus,

A few issues I wanted to report in V1.51. The hotkey option for the buttons is not accepting the ` character any more. It's the hotkey for Reset button. The lock for mouse option is not functioning as it did with the previous versions. After enabling it, I can't move the object but it get selected when I click on it.

Zafar

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Machscreen Screen Designer / Re: can't see lathe toolpath in mach

« on: July 09, 2011, 01:00:48 AM »

I used swap layers and that salved the problem.

Zafar

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Machscreen Screen Designer / can't see lathe toolpath in mach

« on: July 08, 2011, 08:51:11 AM »

Hi,

This is the first time I am designing a lathe screen. Seem to have stuck at a point which never gave me trouble with Mill screens. I add a toolpath, assign it's direction X-Z for lathe, save the file and when I open the screen in Mach3 then the toolpath is not there. Am I missing something? I have used V1.44 and V1.51 with the same results.

Zafar

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PoKeys / Re: Multiple information per line on LCD?

« on: July 08, 2011, 12:47:58 AM »

BriBis,

Here's a line from my macropump

setuserlabel(201,"X"& Format(getdro(0)," 0000.000;-0000.000")&" F"&Format(getoemdro(818)," ####00"))

The key is to make the first entry a fixed width. That's why I use the Format function. Hope it helps.

Zafar

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PoKeys / Re: Pokeys Pendant - My first try!

« on: July 08, 2011, 12:20:41 AM »

Benny,

I had no idea Mach3 behaves like this after 36 hours of operation. Maximum duration I've run it so far is 10 hours for milling machines. Also I didn't know reverse run doesn't operate with G2 and G3. That's an excellent job you've done there and the types of parts made on it are wonderful. How much cutting speed do you get on 25mm thick steel? The max. I get is 1 mm/min.

I see you are using brass wire there. The machines I have use Molybdenum wire which is recycled till it becomes thin and breaks up. The Molybdenum wire also runs through the job at higher speeds (6 to 12 meters/s).

Zafar

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PoKeys / Re: Pokeys Pendant - My first try!

« on: July 07, 2011, 02:23:02 PM »

Hello Zafar

I have buy more as 4 pokeys and till now I use them as a mormal pedrant en from one I ise the anolog input to control the speed of my EDM wire machine.
But now I gone use the LCD display on it but I gone use 4 axis X Y V and U as later maybe a C axis.
But I like to use my LCD better and not the first 10 charaters of the display, so I like to put also other information on the display example speed and from the jog the step 0.1 0.001 are 0.001 I was look of expamles how it is writen in the Marcopump till now I have found not match how to do it what words to use and when to use ; . , and it is always about the details.
Did you find some examples?
Are how did you write you marcopump
greetings Benny

Benny,

Here is my macropump. I am sure you'll get some idea from it for your LCD display.

If getoemled(800) Then
  setuserlabel(201, "EStop Button Pressed")
  setuserlabel(202, "Emergency Mode Activ")
  setuserlabel(203, "....Press Reset....")
  setuserlabel(204, "  www.karacnc.com   ")
Else
  setdro(21,getoemdro(2202)/1023*250)
  setoemdro(74,getoemdro(2203)/1023*250)

  setuserlabel(201,"X"& Format(getdro(0)," 0000.000;-0000.000")&" F"&Format(getoemdro(818)," ####00"))
  setuserlabel(202,"Y"& Format(getdro(1)," 0000.000;-0000.000")&" FRO"&Format(getdro(21)," #00.0"))
  setuserlabel(203,"Z"& Format(getdro(2)," 0000.000;-0000.000")&" SOv"&Format(getoemdro(74)," #00.0"))   
  setuserlabel(204, getuserlabel(101))
End If
                   

I am interested in Wire EDM setup of yours. Are you using Mach for it? How are you handling the wire reversing routine? I have a couple of Chinese Wire EDM's which have given me excellent performance over the years (one of them is 16 years old). If some day their control acts up on me then I'd like to give it a retrofit with Mach.

Zafar

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PoKeys / Re: Pokeys Pendant - My first try!

« on: July 06, 2011, 08:57:04 PM »

Hello Zafar intesting what you have made how did you have solve to get the 2 variabels on 1 line can you give me a example of it I like to do somehing the same but whit other as and other dro
Benny

Benny,

It's the power of Pokeys which enables me to use upto 5 analog inputs into Mach3. With the help of Macropump in Mach3, you can assign them to any DRO. Get Pokeys from www.poscope.com and experiment. You'll love it's functionality.

Zafar

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PoKeys / Re: Pokeys Pendant - My first try!

« on: July 01, 2011, 03:17:29 PM »

Nice work!  Good to see someone using MAD for custom stuff as well!!


I did a plugin for Peter's MP-03 pendant kit, that does all kinds of crazy stuff with mach3. Check out the thread under MP-03 (modbus),
and on the CNCzone.

Let me know if you want to move all those brains, macros etc., into a single plugin package......

Scott

Scott,

I've seen that thread on cnczone. I was always fascinated by that project. That's why when I got my first Pokeys, the first thing I tried with that was to build a pendant like that one.

About your offer to write a plugin for it, I'll give it a go once I am satisfied with the configurations with different setting on a variety of hardware combinations I normally use on retrofit machines. I am using MAD for triggering inputs from the soft switches in the top row and assigning macros to those key presses.

Thanks for the compliments.

Zafar

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PoKeys / Pokeys Pendant - My first try!

« on: July 01, 2011, 10:21:19 AM »

Here is a photo of the Pokeys pendant I am making. It's still under construction. I have to coat the front plate or perhaps paste a printed screen onto it. I have yet to decide on the casing too. I am planning to machine one from Polypropylene block and then paint it. Anyways, it uses a Pokeys55, one 20x4 LCD module, 7 momentary switches, one MPG, 2 wire wound pots and nine LED's. I am using Pokeys plugin 10.4 and the firmware 2.1.19. Mach3 v3.43.37 with MachMAD. A bunch of macros are used with it along with a macropump and a brain. I have yet to test it on my machine.

The green LED next to the MPG shows the MPG On/Off state. The middle button on bottom row switches the MPG on or off. The left button on bottom row is for selecting MPG jog axes. The LED's on top of that indicate the axis selected. The right button on bottom row is for switching between MPG jog modes. The LED's on top of that indicate the selected mode. The pots are for FRO and Spindle override. The four buttons on top row are soft selected depending on the Mach3 screen selected. Their description appears in the bottom row of the LCD.

Zafar

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Mach3 ShutDown

« on: July 01, 2011, 07:02:48 AM »

wow!! i'm so sorry...

i did this request a long time ago.. but i forgot to publish.

I dont have the files now, but tomorrow i will post the files. I make a tutorial too. ^^

i see that you are on line now... xD

its good

please publish the tutorial to do that, thanks

I use this Autohotkey script to hide the title bar in Mach. You'll have to install Autohotkey from www.autohotkey.com first.

Run, c:\mach3\mach3.exe /p mach3mill , c:\mach3
Loop
   sleep, 20
   Until winexist("Mach3 CNC")
WinActivate
WinSet, Style, -0x800000
WinMove, , , -4, -4, 1034, 771