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General Mach Discussion / G75 Request

« on: April 08, 2007, 02:45:34 PM »

Are there any plans to implement a G75 Grooving/Parting cycle in MachTurn?

Terry

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General Mach Discussion / Re: MachTurn F DRO

« on: April 02, 2007, 03:23:16 AM »

While I was waiting for your email, I reloaded the latest version of mach on my office computer and used Screen4 as you said to make the FRO changes and then saved the new lset file. Then I replaced the 1.84 lset on my shop computer with the modified lset. So far seems to work OK. Do you see any reason why this might cause some other problem?  Thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: MachTurn F DRO

« on: April 02, 2007, 03:07:51 AM »

Evidently the available version of Screen4 somehow isn't compatible with 1.84. I downloaded 2.060 and it seems to work with that version OK but not with the 1.84 I'm running on my shop machine. Guess I have to decide if the FRO is important enough to upgrade. - Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: MachTurn F DRO

« on: April 02, 2007, 02:42:53 AM »

Thanks for the reply. I didn't have a Screen4 in my folder but I found it on the downloads page. I extracted the files to my Mach foilder, ran it and then selected the .lset. But I then get a small box with a yellow exclamation point saying 'screen4' and the program seems to hang. Am I doing something wrong?

terry

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General Mach Discussion / MachTurn F DRO

« on: April 01, 2007, 08:21:37 PM »

I'm running version 1.84 of MachTurn. I like to use U/rev feedrates and usually need 3 digits to the right of the decimal for typical feedrates I use. The Feedrate DRO seems fixed with only 2 places to the right of the decimal point and so my feedrates show 0.00. Is there an easy way for me to change this?

terry

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach 3 rev2,057 troubles

« on: March 23, 2007, 08:22:40 PM »

When upgrading from Ver 1.84 to a later 2.xx version, can the 1.84 XML just be dragged back into the folder and continue to be used as it was in 1.84 or must something be done to create a new one for use in 2.xx?

Thanks in advance,
Terry

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General Mach Discussion / Spindle DRO (Mach2)

« on: January 31, 2007, 03:26:34 AM »

Sometimes when I'm running g-code I want to bump the spindle speed or
feedrate DRO's to fine tune a feed. Bumping the feedrate DRO causes the
actual feedrate to change almost immediately. Bumping the spindle speed
DRO, though, seems to only enable the change sometime later - maybe a
minute or so later. Does anyone know why the delay? Is this a feature
of Mach2 or our hardware? This only happens while
running code. The spindle speed changes are immediate otherwise.

Terry

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General Mach Discussion / Re: License question

« on: October 31, 2006, 09:02:23 PM »

Mine looks just like the example folder except, of course, my .exe is for mach2. I replace the files but still get the same result. Does the driver have to be installed to get out of the demo mode?

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General Mach Discussion / License question

« on: October 31, 2006, 07:19:02 PM »

In installed my licensed copy of mach2 software on my shop computer that is connected to my mill and that is
working OK. Then I decided I would like to also install it on my office
computer so I could use it offline to sanity check .NC programs generated by my
CAM software. When I installed it I opted to NOT install the driver
because the office computer already uses the parallel port and I didn't
want to generate any conflicts.  It installed OK, but if I do an "about mach2"
form the help menu it says it is running in the demo mode. I didn't
think much about this until this evening when I found out that as
installed it is limiting the length of programs I want to test to just
under 1000 lines. Does anyone know how to get around this without
installing the driver? (which I am assuming is the problem). The license file is present in the program folder.