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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Plugin Development / Where to get started?

« on: March 04, 2020, 09:32:00 AM »

For writing plugins for Mach4 you have to contact NFS directly.
AFAIK you will have to sign NDA to be able to get more detailed info.

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FAQs / Re: Homing/limit switches- type No or NC? Not working on my CNC Router

« on: February 18, 2020, 07:40:01 PM »

On your picture: https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=42570.0;attach=53179
you do not have any home/limit switch enabled. If you do not enable them, it is the same as you do not have them (fitted to your machine).

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Mach4 or ESS, who is in charge of timing the DIR, STEP and ENA signals?

« on: February 11, 2020, 07:56:57 AM »

Huh, what a stupid protocol
There should be no Dir change if there is no actual commanded direction change.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Mach4 or ESS, who is in charge of timing the DIR, STEP and ENA signals?

« on: February 11, 2020, 04:35:47 AM »

Well...
Your Step/Dir should look something like on the picture below.
Note that there is no change in Dir level while motor is rotating in one direction. When you change direction, Dir should be tad before first step pulse.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Mach4 or ESS, who is in charge of timing the DIR, STEP and ENA signals?

« on: February 10, 2020, 05:43:00 PM »

What kind of scope picture is that? Which color is Step and which is Dir?
Dir should not change with Step unless you change direction of motor rotation.

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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Re: where to get screen designer

« on: February 10, 2020, 10:34:20 AM »

https://kd-dietz.com/

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General Mach Discussion / Re: I can Jog Fine but everything stutters when running GCode or even calibrating.

« on: February 02, 2020, 04:30:32 PM »

64-bit OS is no good with parallel port.
Driver for PP that Art wrote works only on 32-bit systems.

As Craig wrote zillion times external controllers are only way to go on 64-bit systems. And, of course, not some Chinese knock-offs.
Even Russian PLCM-E3 works correctly (if you can find plugin for Mach3 )

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General Mach Discussion / Re: end of career and mach3

« on: February 02, 2020, 08:58:03 AM »

How are configured your limit/home switches in Ports&Pins?
Something like this:

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Tangent Corner / Re: Truly a Mach3 Pirate License.

« on: February 02, 2020, 04:09:48 AM »

Can we make a list of pirated licensees
If you remember, i pulled pirated licensees straight from Mach3.exe

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Tangent Corner / Re: It's a Dog thing.

« on: January 31, 2020, 04:09:12 PM »