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General Mach Discussion / Re: Lost License When Upgrading

« on: October 29, 2008, 07:03:23 PM »

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach Workshop at Cabin Fever Expo

« on: October 29, 2008, 07:00:37 PM »

I don't know the schedule but if it's anything like Galesburg, you will want to be there every day. Lots of good seminars filled with good people and impossible to cover it all. The until part is hard to nail down too. Some days in Galesburg teaching was happening past 9 PM.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Outputs for Status Lights

« on: October 29, 2008, 12:36:58 PM »

What are the lights? Beacon lights? Physical lights attached to Mach? Could you not use a relay? The output from Mach will be on unless in e-stop. It will be holding a relay in. When power is removed or mach is in reset it will drop the output and relax the relay fireing the red light (the other set of contacts on the relay).

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Outputs for Status Lights

« on: October 29, 2008, 12:22:10 PM »

Could you not have Mach holding it in what it thinks is an on state when reset is inactive?

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Lost License When Upgrading

« on: October 29, 2008, 12:14:20 PM »

 

Brett

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Mach Screens / Re: Rapid move

« on: October 29, 2008, 10:33:20 AM »

That is the right OEM number for a jog button but for it to work right you have to assign it an OEM code in screen designer. It can't call the oem code in VB. Calling an oem jog code in VB will not stop on release of the button.  I think your problem is that you don't have your jog mode set to continious though. I have attached a pic. to help I hope.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 4th Axis

« on: October 29, 2008, 09:32:12 AM »

Welcome, your free to post in other boards now.

Brett

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Members Docs / OEM Code list

« on: October 28, 2008, 04:10:28 PM »

The xls contains a list of OEM codes for buttons, LEDs and DRO's. If any more are known that are not in the list please let me know and I will alter and re attach it for all to use.
Hood

Thanks Hood
Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: G4 PX & output signal

« on: October 27, 2008, 01:27:45 PM »

You may want to give a little more detail.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: setup tutorial

« on: October 27, 2008, 01:17:25 PM »

Mike, here is a little info I copied from another thread to help you some I hope.

Stick your left hand in front of you, point your thumb up, first finger ahead and second to the right. That is the +ve direction of the three axis (Thumb is z, first is y and second is X). Also remember that it is the tool direction and not the workpiece/table. so  on a mill, quill going up is Z+ve, table towards you is Y+ve and table to left is x +ve.

Not sure about the figures, haven't looked.

Reversed changes the direction the motors will go in for a command. If you tell your x to - and it moves +, you can fix that here.

That makes sense to me. Z home is usually as far away from the work as possible. Any time it gets closer it is going - and a - number is less than 0.

Negative IMO, but you can set it up to suit you.

It should be on at all times if that's what you want. If it is all set up right, you can leave softlimits on all the time and when referencing the axis Mach will know it can override that to ref. 

Brett