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General Mach Discussion / Re: Machine pausing randomly
« on: September 11, 2010, 11:32:08 PM »
It is on the diagnostics page (not settings, sorry)

Just above the reset button.

Greg

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Machine pausing randomly
« on: September 11, 2010, 06:57:00 PM »
What Tweakie said is correct,

however before doing all that, try turning off the toolpath view (settings page)

See if that makes a difference.

Greg

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NC Pod / Re: shark cnc-mach3
« on: August 29, 2010, 11:19:33 PM »
As far as I understand it is either one or the other. 

Mach3 or the Shark Control panel.  They use different NCpod firmware.

For me it would be a no brainer. 

I could not imagine trying to run a CNC router with a control as limited as the Shark one.

But then I am familiar with Mach.  Been using it for some years.  You may have a different viewpoint.  :)

Greg

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 4-th Axis running bad
« on: August 28, 2010, 05:57:05 PM »
I don't expect it will have any effect when jogging,

Rather try entering G1 A360 Fxx via the MDI.

You should then see the compensation adjust according to a combination of the value in the "Rotation Radius" DRO and the Z axis DRO

Always within the constraints of the motor tuning settings.

You referred to "Rotation Diameter", do you run an older Mach version?  This was fixed last year.

Note if you have a value of zero in the "Rotation Radius" DRO it will turn this feature off. 

This is a bug.  Brian is aware of it but we are still waiting for it to be fixed.

Greg

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 4-th Axis running bad
« on: August 28, 2010, 12:58:19 AM »
Acceleration,not velocity.
 
You may not be able to set it close to what the other axis are, but that is what is needed to get CV to actually work.

As far as velocity and feedrate are concerned, have you set up "Use Radius for Feedrate" to compensate the rotary axis velocity?

Greg

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 4-th Axis running bad
« on: August 27, 2010, 08:20:33 PM »
There is not much info on this but,

Mach has problems with CV and a 4th axis, if the acceleration settings are wildly different to the other axis.

I have mine set to much the same as X, Y and Z

This may, or may not, be possible or desirable with your setup.

Greg

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Windows 7 64 bit advise needed
« on: August 15, 2010, 10:08:28 AM »
Dave

Looked at the Cypress files and looks like they need to be compiled.

I did not do anything special when installing Mach on 64 bit.  Non of the "Vista Readme" stuff either.  

The driver was not installed, so presume none of the extra "Vista Readme" stuff was needed.  

Only running via SmoothStepper on this machine.  Mach runs the machine no problems.  

VB editor is the only hitch I have found.  

Don't know if this is a 64 bit issue, or just a corrupted install.

Greg

EDIT:

False alarm.  I did a reinstall and it is now working. 

I should have tried that first. Jumped to the conclusion it may be a 64 bit issue.   :-[

Thanks anyway.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Windows 7 64 bit advise needed
« on: August 14, 2010, 11:34:51 PM »
BUMP.  ;)

If someone one can tell me that the VB editor is working fine on Windows 7,  64 bit,  then I will know to look elsewhere for my problem.

ANYONE ?????

Greg

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General Mach Discussion / Windows 7 64 bit advise needed
« on: August 09, 2010, 04:14:41 AM »
I have Mach running on Windows 7 64 bit.

This is NOT with the PP.  SmoothStepper is taking care of the motion control.  PP driver is not installed.

My problem is with the VB editor.  It will not run.

Any ideas?  Anyone else running it sucessfully on 64 bit?

Greg

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help with 4th axis
« on: August 08, 2010, 08:56:21 PM »
Good to hear you got it going.

Greg