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Steve is spot on. Otherwise it makes a potentially dangerous situation. Imagine if you suffered a power outage while the spindle was turning 25,000 RPM ............... YIKES! But this is for most machines, not necessarily all of them. I try to make all things default to the safest state but that is subjective too. One thing that might help is keeping in mind that lock out tag out is usually required before maintenance or any type work is done to a machine which means the main disconnect will be turned off. Also, you can typically insure how and when the power is turned on. You can't always control how or when it is turned off.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to create a plugin for Mach3
« on: November 12, 2015, 12:49:50 PM »
Very cool Peta!

To the untrained eye the boards and wires may not look like a lot of fun but I know what they are! Looks like your having a blast! Good on you!  :)

Will be watching how you advance.

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Why would a tool be dropped if Mach is closed? Sounds like maybe the problem is the default state of whatever is holding the tool.

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Tangent Corner / Re: It just stopped working !
« on: November 07, 2015, 12:15:50 PM »
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Easy enough to de-solder and fit another but it highlights the reject rate we must accept when buying cheap from China.

So true Tweakie. Some expect the cheap bits to require extra effort. Its the ones that buy cheap and expect to get quality that simply do not realize what it is they are getting into.

Good job Tweakie! If I had to give you a forum name it would be universal soldier. You battle lots of different issues and fix them all. :)

Or maybe Mr.Talent.

Brett

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re:
« on: October 30, 2015, 01:51:26 AM »
Have a look at the offsets tab (page). There are more changes coming soon too. And Operator, auto calc........ give it a try. / 2 enter

Brett

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This is exactly what I envisioned 4.5 meters of awesome would look like!

Way to go, thanks for sharing!

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Backlash when enabled, kills everything.
« on: October 26, 2015, 10:39:21 AM »
Pete, what are your step and direction pulse durations set to in motor tuning? Might want to have a look at those and/or sherline 1/2 pulse mode.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Lua GcodeExecute
« on: October 18, 2015, 06:29:57 PM »
 :)

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Lua GcodeExecute
« on: October 07, 2015, 12:56:36 PM »
See if this example helps.

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local inst = mc.mcGetInstance() -- Get the instance of Mach4
local xval = mc.mcProfileGetString(inst, "RememberPos", "X", "NotFound") -- Get the register Value
local yval = mc.mcProfileGetString(inst, "RememberPos", "Y", "NotFound") -- Get the register Value
local zval = mc.mcProfileGetString(inst, "RememberPos", "Z", "NotFound") -- Get the register Value

if(xval == "NotFound")then -- check to see if the register is found
wx.wxMessageBox('Register xval does not exist.\nYou must remember a postion before you can return to it.'); -- If the register does not exist tell us in a message box
elseif (yval == "NotFound")then -- check to see if the register is found
wx.wxMessageBox('Register yval does not exist.\nYou must remember a postion before you can return to it.'); -- If the register does not exist tell us in a message box
elseif (zval == "NotFound")then -- check to see if the register is found
wx.wxMessageBox('Register zval does not exist.\nYou must remember a postion before you can return to it.'); -- If the register does not exist tell us in a message box
else
mc.mcCntlMdiExecute(inst, "G00 G53 Z0.0000 \n G00 G53 X" .. xval .. "\n G00 G53 Y" .. yval .. "\n G00 G53 Z" .. zval)
end

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Mach4 Toolbox / Re: Load GCode NO TOOLPATH
« on: September 28, 2015, 06:21:43 PM »
Nice!

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