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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Version 2 has no tenths jog increment

« on: January 19, 2017, 06:50:23 PM »

If you have 10,000 steps per you should be able to move in .0001 increments with no problem.

I can repeat the problem here too so I think there is something to it. Will let you know what we find.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Lua

« on: January 18, 2017, 11:16:18 PM »

Something like this?

local percent = analog/1*250 ‐‐Calculate percentage from 0% to 250%

if (percent < 50) then
(percent = 50)
end

That wont take care of offset so you can take advantage of the the full sweep of the pot though.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: anyone know how to add extra dros to mach4?

« on: January 18, 2017, 08:55:26 PM »

Think I would start by using the 6 axis mill profile and screen since they already have everything for 6 axis. Then if you want you can delete the 6th axis stuff.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Version 2 has no tenths jog increment

« on: January 18, 2017, 08:52:47 PM »

What are your jog increments set to in configuration, general?

Don't think anything changed in versions of Mach that would affect jog increment. Likely a difference in the profile because you are using/playing in a default profile and it would have been overwritten when you updated or if you have 2 installs, it is using the other profile. If you created a custom profile this would not happen. If you really want to learn about Mach read the manuals then play as you read them again.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Touch ui screen load size

« on: January 18, 2017, 08:32:22 PM »

Glad you got it sorted.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Touch ui screen load size

« on: January 18, 2017, 04:39:20 PM »

Are you using any size modifiers in Windows? If so, that can mess up the sizing. A low resolution screen could too I suppose. But, the size is set to 900 X 530 on lines 555 and 556 in the module itself. Feel free to modify the size to suite your setup. Just save a copy somewhere if you do because if you update it will get overwritten.

There is no fast find or tip travel compensation. When using an actual tool as the probe neither of these are a good idea for obvious reasons. But if you do tune the settings fast find really isn't needed. It's not like it will do 3D probing for hours making thousand of touches nor is it meant to.

It gets the probe position at the time the state of the input changes, not when motion stops so decent probes should give very good results. However,if your using a probe it really doesn't matter if it travels a 1/2 inch after contact before the switch changes state, you could compensate for this by adding the overrun distance x 2 to the tool/probe diameter. As long as the probe works consistently and you do your touches at the same rate you can dial it right in. If the overrun distance of the probe is not the same and consistent in all directions this does not hold up............ but neither does tip travel comp. or calibration.

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