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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 driver didn't load

« on: December 01, 2013, 12:50:23 AM »

Have you read the Mach3 Mill Install and Config. Guide? Not trying to put you off but if your new to Mach and have not read the manual reading it would probably help a lot.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 driver didn't load

« on: November 30, 2013, 08:26:48 PM »

Have you tried right clicking the installer and running as admin? Same with driver test and Mach its self. Do you have any Anti-virus running on your PCs?

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 driver didn't load

« on: November 30, 2013, 06:38:55 PM »

You may have gotten a bad or incomplete download.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 driver didn't load

« on: November 30, 2013, 06:03:12 PM »

The parallel port driver is not supported in any 64 bit OS or any version of Windows 8.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: DB9 Connectors for Limits / Motors

« on: November 30, 2013, 03:25:38 PM »

I doubt the DB 9 connectors will be rated for the current the motors will pull. Might want to look at these.

http://www.pmdx.com/ConnectorsMisc

As mmoe said, any added connector is an added point for failure/problems.

May want to cut a big hole in your cabinet and maxke up a couple if wire tie strips. Put 2 pieces of foam in the middle and run the wires between the 2 pieces of foam. Something like the attached picture. Bend oin the red line, bolt to the cabinet in the large slots. Can use zip ties in the small slots........

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: inhibit all axis

« on: November 27, 2013, 06:10:35 AM »

To disable on screen jog buttons change your jog mode to MPG. Disable Jog buttons 250-255 only disable keyboard jog buttons (possibly external buttons as well, haven't tested yet).

Brett

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Tangent Corner / Re: E-Stopping a PLC

« on: November 21, 2013, 12:47:09 PM »

Hey RC, It all depends. Best to kill everything you can mechanically and in the ladder and make provisions in the PLC and Mach to recover from this. Most PLCs have something similar to a Master Control Relay you can use in the logic. Depending on what its doing you may want to build a flip-flop in the PLC and Macro pump so that if one isn't talking to the other each can throw an error and stop. You can use this and let one stop the other mechanically too. Lots of ways to do all of this. Best to just figure out exactly what needs to happen in all possible states and go from there.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / MOVED: Brett LOOK here

« on: November 21, 2013, 12:04:17 PM »

This topic has been moved to Mach4 Alpha.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=25915.0

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Add functions to STOP and RESET (E-stop) button?

« on: November 19, 2013, 02:49:58 PM »

Hey all, it's been a while!

I need to add a sendserial command to the stop and reset buttons to turn off some external devices. They already come on and off as needed in the m6start and m6end files, but I'd like them to shut down in emergencies, and that requires the sendserial command.

In screen4 or machscreen, I can see the STOP and RESET buttons are referencing the system function STOP FILE and RESET. Is there a way in a script that I can call these functions manually? I know it can be done with buttons and such, but can't seem to find how to call these system functions directly.

Thanks

Reset is DoOEMButton(1021) ........ I think thats what you want. You would make your reset button a VB button in MachScreen and add the code to it. Make sure you do what ever else you need to do before sending the reset because it will stop sending the serial bits once reset is activated if i'm not mistaken. If you want a serial connected device to request Reset you could add the code to your MacroPump.m1s to do that.

SendSerial("Hello World")
SendSerial("Goodbye')
Sleep(100)
DoOEMButton(1021) 'Reset.....I do not like a delay at all on a reset button so you would have to weigh it out and see if it will work for you.

If GetInBit(*********) Then
DoOEMButton(1021)
End if

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Official Announcement: Mach4

« on: November 16, 2013, 12:40:15 AM »

Hey everybody, I thought you all may be interested in knowing that as of about 5 hours ago I have Mach4 controlling motion on my 3 axis mill. We still have a lot of work to do but you can be looking for updates at a much faster pace now. We have topped the hill and were looking forward to the downhill slide and will be gaining momentum as we go. I can't tell you what the release date will be yet so please don't ask. I can tell you it will be soon though and encourage you to watch the videos at the following links.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egSSJ6_JwOA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH944Qq86kc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH944Qq86kc

Brett