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Tangent Corner / Re: Truly a Mach3 Pirate License.

« on: January 31, 2020, 04:07:55 PM »

Another one for the list!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: X axis not working with code

« on: January 24, 2020, 08:44:51 AM »

As usual, too short Step pulses

Glad that you sorted it out.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: X axis not working with code

« on: January 23, 2020, 11:13:44 AM »

Attach part of G-Code that is troublesome.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: X axis not working with code

« on: January 23, 2020, 10:48:59 AM »

Is your X axis calibrated properly?

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Plugin that works for Chinese mpg pendant

« on: January 23, 2020, 03:29:51 AM »

Hi Tweakie,
what do you think where the math came from

Buttons A, B and C

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Plugin that works for Chinese mpg pendant

« on: January 22, 2020, 03:48:57 PM »

Camera like this one https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32722569743.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.24f81244W3VdXk&algo_pvid=c492cac3-ca17-435f-890e-0f8fd4b63431&algo_expid=c492cac3-ca17-435f-890e-0f8fd4b63431-3&btsid=e5e7f15d-de80-49c2-b8b2-b1927a3be991&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_2,searchweb201603_53

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Plugin that works for Chinese mpg pendant

« on: January 22, 2020, 03:44:31 PM »

Yes.
I mainly work with wood and sometimes with aluminum.
All my drawings have origin at SE corner of the stock material (ie. bottom left) and Z=0 at top of the stock.

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Plugin that works for Chinese mpg pendant

« on: January 22, 2020, 02:17:46 PM »

I, personally don't use mpg. Keyboard with camera and touch plate are quite enough
You can buy cheap USB "endoscope" camera on AliExpress. I have one permanently installed on machine and it works with Karl's camera plugin.
Edited some buttons and added some DRO's on BigTex screenset.
Defined parking position, measured offsets between camera and spindle centre, ...

When i drill my prototype PCB's, they are NEVER aligned with X or Y axis, added some buttons with appropriate VB scripts (thanks Tweakie) to calculate the system rotation, .....

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Plugin that works for Chinese mpg pendant

« on: January 20, 2020, 10:48:39 AM »

Well, you will force me to make a video
Common wire for selector switches should be connected to LPT GND.
OEMTriggers should be LOW Active as LPT port is providing current for sensing which pin is grounded

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Plugin that works for Chinese mpg pendant

« on: January 19, 2020, 03:48:58 PM »

Those 2 .brn files you can copy to Autoload folder and they will be by default enabled.
ALL wires that are referenced as 0V/COM should be connected to GND pin of parallel port (pins 18..25)
L+ to pin1 of parallel port, L- to GND
LED will be lit when LED on screen whch indicates Jog ON is lit.

So:
Yellow to pin4
Yellow/Black to pin5
Brown to pin6
Gray to pin8
Gray/Black to pin9
Orange to pin10
L+ to pin1
Orange/Black + L- to pin25

You could also reconfigure ESTOP to be on LPT2 then:
Blue to ESTOP pin
Blue/Black to pin25