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General Mach Discussion / Re: 1 mdi move only and reset

« on: January 15, 2015, 04:31:29 PM »

IIRC the escape key stops the current movement, so if you're in an MDI move, it'll terminate the command.

Have you tried using the standard mill profile?
I wonder if there's something in the MSM screen that could be upsetting the flow?

I'd try creating a new profile based of the standard mill profile and see what happens, before reinstalling things.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 1 mdi move only and reset

« on: January 15, 2015, 01:02:32 PM »

You have set up your motor tuning in Mach?

Something else to check, would be monitor the Axis and Digital I/O screens in KMotion, and see what's changing.
The Axis screen should show the destination increase/decrease with moves, and also check that the axis are all staying enabled.
On the Digital I/O, watch and see if any bits change that correspond with motion stopping.

I'd also suggest posting on either the Dynomotion Yahoo Group, or the Dynomotion board on CNCZone, as you'll find far more users and TK himself active in those places.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Probe set up in Mach 3

« on: January 11, 2015, 06:52:43 PM »

Double check your port and pin settings for the Probe signal on the Inputs tab in Ports and Pins.
If the relevant port/pin led is lighting up on the diagnostics page, then it sounds like the Probe input hasn't been set correctly.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: I'm in Hog Heaven

« on: January 11, 2015, 07:31:55 AM »

I noticed your posts over on the yahoo group, and it still amazes me some of the simple solutions that Tom suggests, for what appear to be complex problems.

I was more interested in some photos, as your video only gives a little glimpse of the machine. I was only being nosey, as I like to look at what other people have created to see what ideas can I borrow for my own equipment

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Probe set up in Mach 3

« on: January 11, 2015, 04:43:54 AM »

On the diagnostic page, there is a digitize light. Does it light up as well as pin 6?
If the digitize light isn't activating, then G31/probing moves won't work.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 1 mdi move only and reset

« on: January 10, 2015, 08:22:06 PM »

One thing I forgot to mention, is if you open the KMotion Console before loading Mach and running MDI commands, are there any messages displayed in the console?
I can't remember if anything gets displayed during normal Mach use, unless you have a C program with a printf command in it, but any error messages should be shown here.

Is there anything in your init file other than the usual axis config parameters?

For debugging this, I'd create a profile with only the very minimum required to get movement, before then adding in the Pokeys to see if that's the problem.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 1 mdi move only and reset

« on: January 10, 2015, 07:15:29 PM »

If you load up KMotion (not KMotionCNC) and open the C Program screen with Mach running, is your init thread showing (button background for the relevant thread number green) as still running after hitting reset in Mach?
And are any other threads showing as being active after issuing a MDI command?

One thing to remember here, is just because a thread is showing as active within the C Program screen, it is not necessarily the program that is loaded in the screen that is running i.e. if Mach loads an init file into thread 1 that runs with an infinite loop, the file currently shown in the window will be whatever c file you happened to open last within the C Program screen.

Also, you have checked within the Mach Plugin config option, that you are loading the correct init file?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Probe set up in Mach 3

« on: January 10, 2015, 06:55:04 PM »

By parallel controller board, do you mean you're still using the parallel port?

What screen are you using?
If you load the standard Mach3Mill screen, and select the diagnostics page, does the digitize light activate with the probe?

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: I'm in Hog Heaven

« on: January 10, 2015, 06:37:54 PM »

YaNvrNo, any more details or build threads on your 4-axis?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Appears to not handle non-printable characters in Ascii files.

« on: January 09, 2015, 06:02:52 PM »

I think a good analogy for G-code, is to think of it like a legacy programming language from days when processing power and memory was costly, and it just wasn't viable to error check it fully, so you had to rely on making sure what you typed in was correct.
At least Mach3 pre-reads the complete file and flags up errors, unlike lots of machine controllers which would simply run then fault out at the problem line.

I'm not trying to defend Mach3 for lacking what is now considered a basic feature in nearly all programmes, however Mach3 dates from when processing power was still limited, and from an area of industry where it is expected that G-code would either be created using a basic text editor, or from an automated post-processor. Non-visible charcters simply shouldn't be inserted using either of those methods.