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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Gecko 540 and a CNC with a mind of it's own

« on: March 13, 2013, 05:42:28 PM »

Hey Hallettoil, if you do not have the home switches enabled (which they shouldnt be since you dont have any) when you the refrence all button the green leds around the axis dro zero buttons will light up and set your machine coord. to 0 at that point.  You will want to be sure your axis are going in the right direction and that they are moveing the proper amounts.  These links will help you with that.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,10308.0.html#new

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,12512.0.html

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,12513.0.html#new

Lots of other meat and potatoes post there in the members docs board.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool change location problem

« on: March 13, 2013, 04:22:00 PM »

I just looked and the 1024 set has those as user defined dros. 1200, 1201 and 1202.  The m6end code you posted is telling the machine to return to the position that the M6 was called  (The default script here moves the tool back to m6start if any movement has occured during the tool change)  .  You can download Machscreen and watch some tutors on it here.  http://www.kd-dietz.com/klausphp/pages/eng/machscreen/description/ms_description.html

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool change location problem

« on: March 13, 2013, 03:40:49 PM »

Are the tool change position DROs in machine coordinates and your looking for moves in work coordiantes or vise versa?  If changeing those dros changes the tool change position, you just need to figure out what coordinates the dros are relative to I think.  Could open the screen in Machscreen and find out what the dros really are.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: CV feedrate question

« on: March 13, 2013, 01:49:00 PM »

Not that I know of but tuning CV takes a little practice and can change with different jobs.  What is acceptable on a 4 foot piece may not be on a 4 inch piece.  This link may help.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,7923.msg50240.html#msg50240

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool change location problem

« on: March 13, 2013, 01:03:17 PM »

On your settings page, you have a set of tool change position DROS.  If you change the value in those does it go to a different location when a tool change is called?

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plea for help!!

« on: March 13, 2013, 10:07:13 AM »

Sent you  PM Bill


Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plea for help!!

« on: March 13, 2013, 09:02:29 AM »

How are you comeing along Bill?

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool change location problem

« on: March 13, 2013, 08:48:28 AM »

Hey Glenn, I'm sorry, I also meant to tell you how to post pictures.  When your typeing a reply or new topic you will see additional options below where you type.  Click on it and it will let you browse for an attachment.  Make sure it has a unique name and isnt too large.

I'm almost in the same boat with you on being able to write macros.  Anything I do in programming is a struggle for me but some of the other guys could write it in their sleep I think.  You need to figure out exactly what you want it to do first.  Lots to consider really.  I'm assuming you will want the tool data updated.  If so, where does this data come from?  Are your tools preset?  If not, how do you set them?  Do you need anything else to happen, turn off coolant, vaccum, etc. then turn it back on when you press cycle start again or when it returns to a specific location?  Get all this figured out and post it and maybe some of the guys who already know how to make the magic happen will help.

Brett

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Test Speak

« on: March 12, 2013, 03:05:05 PM »

  

I did a sarcastic screen set once.............. it was pretty mean but had a lot of fun with it. LOL

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MACH TOOL BOX / Re: Button Script to search through active Gcode File for NEXT Tool change

« on: March 12, 2013, 10:33:11 AM »

You got me Ian................... 

I just had to clcik it........  I did so with a stretched out arm and a jump back though.................... just in case. 

Brett