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General Mach Discussion / Re: lumps & bumps

« on: May 30, 2013, 06:02:25 PM »

If its tabs is it raising in those positions?  Have you trammed your spindle by chance?

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Auto Setting Steps on new machine, then trouble with old code

« on: May 30, 2013, 05:41:30 PM »

Do you have your native units set to mm when it should be inches?

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: SERIOUS jog problem!

« on: May 29, 2013, 08:53:09 PM »

I think I know whats going on.

I think it is going to be a step mode hot key assignment.  Here is the way to get it to repeat.

Open the MPG fly out so you can see it.
Set your slow jog rate low to start with for safety.
In cont. mode.
Start jogging with an arrow key and hold it down
Press the Ctrl (control) key and hold it down.  You will see step and cont. mode are both now active.
Let off the arrow key
Let of the Ctrl Key, the axis should continue to jog.
Pressing either direction arrow key for that axis will stop it.

My set up uses a pendant that selects velocity only or multi step for the mpg and my (Hoods) screen does not have the MPG fly out.  I never use con't mode and can't even activate it using my (Hoods) screen. So I would have never found it in normal use.


Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: SERIOUS jog problem!

« on: May 29, 2013, 07:10:20 PM »

Hood tried a few more things and can't get it to show up for him so I'm going to try to do some test in the morning.  If you don't here from me by noon, remind me.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: SERIOUS jog problem!

« on: May 29, 2013, 03:51:15 PM »

Also, what screen sets are we all running?  I think I tested with the standard 1024 set but will double check.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: SERIOUS jog problem!

« on: May 29, 2013, 03:46:41 PM »

I can repeat it here Sam.  I spoke to Greg about this a while back and was supposed to talk to Brain and see if he had any ideas and forgot to..    If Hood can't repeat it though I think it may be something in our setups.  No idea if this will make any difference or not but what kind of keyboards are we all running?

USB here.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: M3 Relay output from output 1

« on: May 28, 2013, 09:32:42 PM »

No problem.  It would be hard going wrong following Tweakies advise.  I imagined you had already tried it both ways but thought it would be worth mentioning.  Let us know how you get on.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: M3 Relay output from output 1

« on: May 28, 2013, 06:06:44 PM »

Have you tried setting the port 1 pin 1 output to active high?

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Spindle Delay?

« on: May 28, 2013, 05:49:57 PM »

Just to add a little here.  Spin up, down time is often affected by tool weight as well.  For instance a 3 inch face mill weighs a lot more than a 1/8 ball nose and could easily affect things.   I would set the delays keeping this in mind. Hoods machines are just so amazing he never notices that any more. 

Welcome to the forum BTW!

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: My retrofit nightmare

« on: May 28, 2013, 01:23:55 PM »

Mike, I'm only guessing but it could be that you have an estop or limit switch active.  You might be able to go into ports and pins and change their active state to get to the point you can reset.  You should probably make a note of how they are set before the changes you make in case you have to revert.  Looking on the diagnostics screen to see if any limits of estops are active should help you narrow it down a little before you adjust your switches active state.

Brett