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General Mach Discussion / Re: Almost Home!

« on: November 15, 2007, 10:19:16 PM »

Yeah you wouldn't know it now.

They've cleaned up the bay side of the city a lot.  All cafes and broad walks now.

Greg

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Almost Home!

« on: November 15, 2007, 09:18:07 PM »

Yeah as Gary said do not use a negative number in the DRO.

Just measure the plate thickness and put that in as a starting point.

Then it is important to fine tune that amount by trail and measure.

My plate is 1.52mm but to be accurate I need to enter 1.49.

G'day Gary.  I'm in Geelong.

Greg

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Set up Z Home Distance

« on: November 15, 2007, 09:12:41 PM »

There is no direct setting in Mach to make it come further off the home switch.

You can increase the debounce but that is a rather crude way to do it.

You would be best to add some VB code to the Fef All button.

For example put this in the Ref All button to move the Z down one inch after homing.

DoButton( 24 )
While IsMoving()
Wend
Code "G0 Z-1"
While IsMoving()
Wend
DoButton( 23 )
DoButton( 22 )
DoButton( 25 )


Or individual axis home buttons if you have them.

Greg

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Almost Home!

« on: November 15, 2007, 08:51:08 PM »

Wayne both Gary and I posted screens with scripts.  Which one are you referring to?

Greg

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Almost Home!

« on: November 13, 2007, 11:37:54 PM »

Wayne I put together this screen with a more comprehensive zero script.

The old one had no allowance for overrun.

This one is an adaptation of one that Scott wrote.

You'll find that it works quite well.

Greg

EDIT:  I think the Mach version you have must be a bit old.  Update it to the latest lock down version.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New PlugIn just about done..

« on: November 13, 2007, 04:43:40 PM »

I believe you must also have the latest plugin.

Download the plugin again and install this should fix it.

Greg

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Almost Home!

« on: November 12, 2007, 05:39:16 PM »

OK thanks for that Gary.  Then I go back to my previous post.

Wayne can you post your screenset and we can check the script out and it's relation to screen changes
that have been made from the Mach standard.

Greg

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Almost Home!

« on: November 12, 2007, 04:29:08 PM »

On second thoughts I have what I believe is a copy of the screenset that Scott wrote for the Ascension.

I have attached a TXT file that contains the script from that copy.  Also a small screen grab to see if it looks the same.

Compare it to the script you are using and see if it is the same or similar.

This one looks fine and should work if this is in fact the same screenset.

I only got this screenset a couple of weeks ago and I'm sure if it once had a flaw Scott would have corrected it.

Greg

PS:  Scott I have no desire to step on any toes.    So jump in here if you wish.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Almost Home!

« on: November 12, 2007, 04:16:26 PM »

OK if you are using a third party screenset and Zero script then post the screenset so we can have a look at it.

Button scripts are embedded into the screenset so posting that will allow us to check it out.

Greg

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Almost Home!

« on: November 11, 2007, 11:48:33 PM »

Wayne

There is no Z zero function built into Mach3.  There is "Gauge Block Height" on the offsets page.

However many users have made their own Auto Tool Zero devices usually with complimentary VB scripts to make them function.

There are a great variety of ways to do it.

So you need to let us know what type of device or method you are trying to get working before we can attempt to offer assistance.

Greg