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General Mach Discussion / Re: Using a gamepad, it seems great, then it will continue movement in one direction

« on: September 03, 2007, 06:40:11 PM »

I think the problem is more your gamepad. I have had them stick before with similar results. Some of them are so very sensative. Something that may help, in the axis settings, change it from linear to expot. 2.

Brett

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Is it possible to create a button that will change the feedrate to 50%?

« on: September 03, 2007, 06:36:19 PM »

Your welcome, glad that did it for you.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 won't jog with keyboard

« on: August 31, 2007, 08:18:07 PM »

Watch the welcome tutor, top of general Mach board.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3

« on: August 31, 2007, 07:59:02 PM »

You shouldn't have to if your installing to the same location as the old version. If it is very old, might not hurt to delete the old first, but shouldn't have to.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 won't jog with keyboard

« on: August 31, 2007, 07:55:56 PM »

You might have turned of the Jog button, or have it in another mode, such as MPG. Hit your tab key, this brings up the MPG pendant. Check to see if you are in cont.  jog mode there. Tab will close the MPG screen as well.

Brett

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Mach3 and G-Rex / Re: Feed Rate Overide on G100

« on: August 30, 2007, 09:05:43 AM »

Hey John,
     I got to play around with the G100 yesterday.  Only because my phase convertor for the spindle had to vent some smoke.    I have the analog inputs and outputs working here now.  You are right, Analog input 4 is the top one in the monitor, 1 is 2nd, 2 is 3rd and 3 is 4th. Also in config. screen for the G100, spindle control, the analog output 1 is pin 4, 2 is pin 1, 3 is pin 2, and 4 is pin 3. Hopefully, all of this will change. The 4 inputs you see in the config, ports and pins, input signals has nothing to do with these as far as I can tell. Also, if you need to know for a macro pump, analog input pin 4 is input 124, 1 is input 125, 2 is input 126, and 3 is input 127. You should be able to, on the spindle setup tab in ports&pins, enable modbus spindle speed, at register 64, wire your spindle control (VFD or similar) to analog output 4 and cotrol it with Mach. Go to the MDI page, give it a m3 s ?*********, raise and lower the speed with the controls on scren while watching the G100 monitor. You won't see the monitor vary if you don't have the spindle runnig. You can also use an analog input to control an analog output, but you will need to do some work with VB. You need to have a macro pump or if you allready have one, you will need to add the code to do this.
     I can control my feedrate with an analog input but there is a problem. I have code in the macropump (Thanks to Poppabear and Art) that will allow me to turn a pot and the feed rate slider goes up and down as it should. The problem is, the actual speed of the machine does not change. This is being looked at by the Grandpoobah allready.

Hope this helps,
Brett

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Homebuilt CNC

« on: August 29, 2007, 07:19:43 PM »

Nice, very nice. Good looking machine and parts. Thanks for shareing.

Brett

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Is it possible to create a button that will change the feedrate to 50%?

« on: August 29, 2007, 07:13:31 PM »

Yup, I think so. Try this, add a button to your screen and make it a VB Script button. Go to operator, edit button script, click on the button you added and paste this in. Let me know if it works for you.

Brett

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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Re: OEM Code

« on: August 28, 2007, 08:47:39 PM »

Not sure if this is what you are asking? OEM stands for original equipment manufacturer I think. You assign these codes to buttons, code, inputs, outputs etc. They perform the task assigned to that code then. I hope this is what you are asking.

Brett

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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Re: OEM Code

« on: August 28, 2007, 08:07:40 PM »

Look at the top of this page, forums tab, Wiki-Customize Mach, section 9 I think.

Brett