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Tangent Corner / Re: Super Kitten.

« on: December 06, 2017, 09:09:56 AM »

Lol, nice!

Looks like Tweakie has a new member of the family.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Teknic Clearpath Servo setting for Mach3

« on: December 05, 2017, 05:08:49 PM »

The steps per rev should be in the documentation..............

Just guessing it will be 12,000 per rev / 5 = 2,400

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Reference all home help.

« on: December 04, 2017, 09:07:25 PM »

Chaoticone and Joeaverage hello! Thanks for all the feed back and assistance =)  Doing some searching and playing around with the co-routine in the screen load. placing GoCenter() in the ref all causes like you said for the reference complete message to pop up before the x,y move is complete... Im sure its something very obvious    but unlike Craig my ignorance is less blissful    Is it a simple matter of placing the code correctly in the ref all.

- Nick

Just add another coroutine.yield

function RefAllHome()
    mc.mcAxisDerefAll(inst)  --Just to turn off all ref leds
    mc.mcAxisHomeAll(inst)
    coroutine.yield() --yield coroutine so we can do the following after motion stops
    ----See ref all home button and plc script for coroutine.create and coroutine.resume
    --Do your moves here
     coroutine.yield()
--
    wx.wxMessageBox('Referencing is complete')
end

Hi Chaoticone,
I've always avoided the investment in thinking to allow me to make any real sense of co-routines...looks like
that particular 'blissful ignorance' is under assault!

Craig

 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Reference all home help.

« on: December 04, 2017, 06:49:38 PM »

Not sure how the coroutine part would affect it

You will want to add it after the coroutine so it goes to center after homing is complete.

The coroutine and message box was added to the ref all home to be an example of how coroutines can work. They are nice to hold things up until a certain point is reached then continue from there. Without the coroutine the message box would pop up immediately when the RefAllHome function was called (instead of after motion stops after all referencing is complete).

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Tangent Corner / Re: Optical Illusion.

« on: November 24, 2017, 06:19:02 AM »

That's great Tweakie! What did you use to generate the Gcode for the laser? Did he actually do the laser etching too?  If so, is he running your Gcode or generating his own?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Advice on how to store RRO between sessions?

« on: November 21, 2017, 06:50:16 AM »

The only thing you should have to do is create a register and link the DRO to it in the DRO properties. Set Reg to persistent when you create it. When DRO changes, register changes. When Register changes, DRO will change. Persistent will remember what it was last and start Mach with it set to same value. No scripting required....

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Alright fellow campers...a frankenstein moment!!

« on: November 19, 2017, 10:53:09 PM »

Well said Craig. Most would never see the potential effects as a negative but in the right conditions it would not be an option.

Is your main concern pulse freq. Vs charge time? Its the first one I think of but never done the math to know for sure one way or the other if that is a possible shortcoming. I know in theory it is.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: m3 gets special treatment?

« on: November 19, 2017, 09:32:19 PM »

Close Mach and delete any mcc or backup files in your C:\Mach4\Profiles\ProfileName\Macros folder and retest. This will force the lua chunk to be recompiled and your edits should take effect then.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Alright fellow campers...a frankenstein moment!!

« on: November 19, 2017, 09:22:24 PM »

Yup Bob, spot on and I do agree. I would be willing to bet many members do to.

Glad your making progress. Hopefully the caps will have you sorted. They are acting like shock absorbers on those input signals of the drive.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Alright fellow campers...a frankenstein moment!!

« on: November 19, 2017, 09:38:26 AM »

Actually, I thought it used to have an Edit button - but not now. Odd. Someone has done something ...

Cheers
Roger

This changed years ago. Now you have a set time that you can modify your post. After that time a mod or admin would have to modify it for you.

Funny this comes up now. One reason this was changed is we actually had some....
Posting questions.
Getting the correct answer.
Not liking (or not understanding) the answer.
Realizing later (usually much later, after lots of post just to clear up their misconception) they got the right answer to their question right off.
After volunteers educating them enough that they now know the question to ask editing their post to be the question they thought they were asking to begin with.

The chain of post went a lot like this.....
Question asked
Answer given
Lots more questions and answers
Finally get it fixed
Well, why didn't you ask "x" instead of "y'
I did ask "x"
No, you asked "y"
Post modified
Did not, go read it again
Hmmmm, that's odd. Could have sworn you asked "y"
Nope, never did. How dare you insult my intelligence. Thank you for wasting so much of my time on my hobby, my problem and my machine.
(Take special note of the me, me, me on previous line)
Hey, wait a minute...... Screenshot shows you did ask "y"
Silence...........  

This would be flat out funny if not so sad.