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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Laser cross hair tool position.

« on: March 13, 2009, 05:20:15 PM »

I am being incredibly lazy here but I wonder if anyone would be good enough to help with the VB Script to turn the laser on and off as Greg has suggested.

I only use the cross hair laser on a router.  It does not seem as appropriate to me, on a mill.  Accuracy etc.

Therefore being a router, I don't need mist coolant.   So I use mist coolant output to control laser on and off.

M8 turns it on and M9 turns it off.  Better still  OEMbutton 114 toggles it.

Cheating I know,  but makes buttons and macros a no brainer.

Greg

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Laser cross hair tool position.

« on: March 13, 2009, 02:16:55 AM »

Tweakie

Just to give you something to think about, 

I have my cross hair laser directly powered from an out-put. No battery or wall plug.

BoB specs say 20 miliamp is available on each out-put pin.  Laser only uses about ten miliamps.

A resistor in series with it just to drop the 5v down to about 3v.

The advantage is that an on-screen button turns the laser on and off.

Also the macro that positions the spindle over the spot also tuns the laser off.

Greg

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: COPYCAT - "KOOL"

« on: March 12, 2009, 05:47:04 PM »

Nice Geg,
Are you going to post the screen file?
RICH

I don't want to stomp all over Ron's work here. 

It is one thing to make screen mods for my own use, it is another to post them up.

Without Ron's permission, I better not.

Greg

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: COPYCAT - "KOOL"

« on: March 12, 2009, 12:22:37 AM »

1.SCREEN - would be nice if some of the buttons were moved around
                   such that the video screen had its owne place when opened.
                 - maybe increase the other window sizes
                 - a real rough screen showing this is in the attached file

This is my second page to accommodate the video window.

I do not have a probe but use the spindle mounted camera a lot. 

So hence I can do away with the probe section.  That leaves me a bit of room.

This most certainly won't suit everybody but is the ducks nuts for me. 

Greg

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: Metric setting leaves little space for values

« on: March 11, 2009, 09:08:15 PM »

Peu

That is fairly easy to make the changes yourself to the DROs that are a problem with metric.

I doubt you would want to change them all.  Only the ones that are a relevant.

This can be done in Screen4.  The relevant page numbers are about 20 to 35

I have changed a few that used to annoy me.  Just made them 2 decimal places.

Greg

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Pause/Feedhold LED broken again?

« on: March 10, 2009, 08:42:54 PM »

No worries Chip

Leave you to it. 

Greg

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Pause/Feedhold LED broken again?

« on: March 10, 2009, 08:22:34 PM »

Sorry Chip I don't know what you are showing us.

I am not so familiar with the standard Mach screenset.

Greg

EDIT:  Here is a screen grab from my test screenset.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Pause/Feedhold LED broken again?

« on: March 10, 2009, 05:38:03 PM »

Brett

OK got the latest release candidate.

In the office here it looks to work great.  Even better than previous versions.

OEMLED 80 now works.

80 and 111 come on immediately once feedhold is pressed.

Pause and 805 wait until movement has stopped.

I'm off to the shed to install and try it on a machine.

Thanks,  Greg

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Building a 4th Axis from scratch.

« on: March 10, 2009, 05:27:10 PM »

Great job on the fourth axis Tweakie.

Love how you have built in alignment to the base. 

Very interested to see how the gear adjustment goes in use.

Well done,  Greg

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Pause/Feedhold LED broken again?

« on: March 09, 2009, 07:15:05 PM »

Jury is still out on this one Greg. 

Not if you ask my missus.  It is a well and truly established fact.


Thanks Brett