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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problems with SPINDLE CW F5

« on: January 30, 2009, 12:53:52 AM »

There are spindle control settings to add delays when the spindle is turned on or off, which is what the blinking LED indicates.  Sounds like yours are set to some really long period.  It's under Config->Ports&Pins->SpindleSetup.

Regards,
Ray L.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Offline Button - What Does It Do?

« on: January 27, 2009, 07:46:57 PM »

Do you have the SS?
Hood

Hood,

    You betcha!  Does that mean it does doodley-squat?

Regards,
Ray L.

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General Mach Discussion / Offline Button - What Does It Do?

« on: January 27, 2009, 06:25:21 PM »

What does the Offline screen button actually do?   The manual says it disconnects all outputs, yet with Offline lit, I can still jog....

Regards,
Ray L.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Shuttle Pro problem

« on: January 27, 2009, 04:43:24 PM »

Hate to keep bringing up the ShuttlePro but I think I have tried everything I have read to get it to work but I must be missing something.  I installed the Shuttle software and then the Mach3 plug-in.  Saw I was not supposed to installed Shuttle software, so I uninstalled it.  When I go to Config:config plugins,  the shuttlepro is installed with the green check to the left and the yellow "config" to the right.  I click on the "config" button and see the ShuttlePro picture and associate the axis with the keys.  Went back and exited Mach3 and then loaded Mach3 again.  When I push the keys on the ShuttlePro, I just get a beep and the error message "Unknown word where unary operation could be.....".   I am running Mach R2.63

Would appreciate any help, thanks

Is the plug-in supposed to work with R2.63?  That's mighty old....

Regards,
Ray L.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: z axis losing position and plows into fixture...help

« on: January 27, 2009, 12:38:39 PM »

Have you tried single-stepping the program, to see exactly where it goes wrong?  I would guess you'll find one of the Z retracts doesn't work - perhaps the head is too heavy/too much friction for the axis motor to lift?

Regards,
Ray L.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ShuttlePro No Worky...

« on: January 17, 2009, 05:13:17 PM »

Yep, I love it but I have to make some sort of handle for it as it's kind of a sharp/weird shape to hold 

Dave

Dave,

    Well, you could get some Velcro and make a wrist-strap, so it'd always be on your fore-arm, just like Buzz Lightyear!  :-)

    BTW - I put a bug in Arts ear to add more macros.  He sounds amenable to it....

Regards,
ray L.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ShuttlePro No Worky...

« on: January 17, 2009, 03:22:03 PM »

Boy, this ShuttlePro is a WONDERFUL thing!  I've spent the last few hours actually using it, and it is a joy!  I should've bought it a LONG time ago.

Regards,
Ray L.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ShuttlePro No Worky...

« on: January 16, 2009, 08:54:53 PM »

Ok, Dave, how did *your* reply to my message show up as if *I* wrote it???

Regards,
Ray L.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ShuttlePro No Worky...

« on: January 16, 2009, 07:06:28 PM »

Dave,
Perhaps you can help me get this configured the way I want.  I'd like to have buttons that perform the same actions as two of the edge-finding "Select" buttons on the Offsets screen, and another that will set the Z DRO to a pre-defined value.  It appears this should be do-able through macros, but it's not at all clear to me how.  The ShuttlePro config screen has text boxes for "Custom Macro Number 1" and "Custom Macro Number 2", and "Custom OEM Code #1" and "Custom OEM Code #2", but I have no clue how to make use of those.  The functionality I need for the three buttons is, I think, trivial:

Call SetDRO(0, ABS(GetOEMDRO(1000))/(-2)) # To set X axis zero after edge finding
Call SetDRO(1, ABS(GetOEMDRO(1000))/(-2)) # To set Y axis zero after edge finding
Call SetDRO(2, ABS(GetOEMDRO(1001)))       # To set Z axis DRO to gauge block height after manual toolchange

So, how do I make this work?

Regards,
Ray L.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ShuttlePro No Worky...

« on: January 16, 2009, 06:05:15 PM »

People think it's easy being an idiot, but it's really not....  I had expected there to be a "ShuttlePro" item under the Plug-in menu, just like there is for the Video plug-in and the SmoothStepper.  I didn't realize there was also a Config->Plugins.  So, I was looking in the wrong place.  It's all working fine.

Thanks, Budman.  BTW - "and going back to PP" means I disabled the SmoothStepper, and re-enabled the parallel port.

Regards,
Ray L.