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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 08:46:07 AM »

Hi Art I noticed once  after rebooting that the jog buttons had disapeared too.
I have restarted mach many times in the last 30 minutes and the PC a few times now and all is still OK
We will just have to wait and see.
Thanks see you later
Bob

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 08:34:13 AM »

Hi Art
yep you are right if i Enable motor 3 in darwin but not in Mach I get the problem
If I over veloc a motor I get the Warning axis too fast
I am setting mach up i metric and I think the units / and the veloc/ were too fast works with 2000/unit  and 120 veloc/
When I updated to mach 4/1936 it must have changed all my settings
I am going for a pint
Thanks

Bob

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 08:20:26 AM »

Hi Gerry
got it working I think.
25000 kernal 2000 unit/ 120 veloc
but only if I disable the estop in Darwin
Bob

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 07:54:30 AM »

set units/ to 1000 now cannot change this without mach crasing and pc needs hard reboot
bob

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 07:49:16 AM »

tried 120 still the same
bob

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 07:27:12 AM »

Hi Gerry
I tried 25000 and 30000 and 35000 kernal
2000 steps/unit 600 velocity

None seems to help
Bob

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 06:06:47 AM »

Hi Art
 I Just upgraded to Mach 4 1936 . Now I cannot get it to run with Darwin. If I go to Sim it works OK. but when I go to darwin I get "Darwin buffer erroe - too fast.
I have tried everything I can think of to sort it with no joy.
I deleted the sim from the plugin folder no joy
I changed the counts per unit, the velocity units per min no joy
if  I go back to sim then everything works
and Mach 4 is crashing all the time
Any toughts as the system was running with 1914 and darwin 1.11
Thanks
Bob

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 06, 2014, 01:22:20 AM »

Hi Art
I got an XP machine and install Mach 4 and  Darwin and things would not work the programme would not open. It says the configuration is wrong. So after reading some more on this forum I then started to install VBredist first from the Microsoft site then an older version still no joy I then saw your comment about installing Gearotic Demo which has VB 2008 and joy of joys the programme works. So after a couple of days playing about I have just bought a license. Now just to wait for a plugin for a Smoothstepper. Thanks to you for your help.
Bob

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 03, 2014, 01:45:51 AM »

Hi All
Thanks for the replies. My fault I am running Win 7 64 bit (I didn't see that it was for 32 bit only) so I guess I wont be buying Mach 4
Thanks Bob

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 02, 2014, 04:13:02 AM »

Hi All
I have just tried to install Darwin now when I start Mach 4 I get "driver installation failed"
anybody help please.
Bob