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General Mach Discussion / Re: edge finding/2.5D probing

« on: December 03, 2007, 08:11:50 AM »

Hi looker1

I'm assuming you've installed everything as per the readme and noted the bit about this error in the hints n tips bit at the end of the readme. If you aknowlege the error and just carry on as directed in the readme, does it still not work then? Regarding the regen of the toolpath, this is not really neccessary or particularly meaningful as there isn't really a toolpath to regenerate. The toolpath is calculated on the fly as probe25D.tap is running.

In short just acknowlege (or ignore) the error and run probe25D.tap anyway. Also I'm assuming you've run the probe utilities application on your start menu first to set up the parameters of your choice for probe25D.tap?

Incidentally please be aware that this is not an Artsoft application - the only "guru" involved is me 

Get back to me and we'll get it going step by step if you need me - but like I say - please read the whole readme first if you haven't already.

Cheers

Ian (Stirling)

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General Mach Discussion / Re: why is mach suddenly doing this?

« on: December 02, 2007, 01:08:55 PM »

Hi DAlgie -  cute...

That would be a no.

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General Mach Discussion / why is mach suddenly doing this?

« on: December 02, 2007, 10:34:34 AM »

So I'm using Mach for half the morning no problem. Then out of the blue it decides that close enough is good enough

i.e. instead of moving X, Y and Z to EXACTLY where the part file tells it to, it goes to within a few (random) hundredths instead.
 
Please see the attached piccy and compare lines 70 and 80 to the DROs.

Anybody got any ideas?

WARNING: Rant alert....

Why do I seem to spend more time trying to get Mach working these days than making chips?

Rant over 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: edge finding/2.5D probing

« on: December 01, 2007, 04:35:24 AM »

Ian just a note about Open Office which is an open source project. I used it to open your doc just fine. Have you added all the goodies that go with the software where it probes the inside of the profile?

Hi Mike - yes it's all there in the download - it'll do all you see on the vids.

That video was so cool. I had to take a break from my testing to get some actual work done but I hope to take at least one day next week to test everything. I will let you know how it goes.

Great - any help needed just let me know.

Cheers

Ian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: edge finding/2.5D probing

« on: November 27, 2007, 08:19:11 AM »

Hi Arnie - Happy to have you onboard.

The utility is now available to download at
http://www.razordance.co.uk/downloads/probe.zip
and instalation and operating instructions to download are at
http://www.razordance.co.uk/downloads/readme.doc (a word document)

If you don't have MS Word then a copy of the readme is online at
http://www.razordance.co.uk/probereadme.htm

Cheers 

Ian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: machine coordinate

« on: November 27, 2007, 06:33:48 AM »

Hi tubular2000, there was a similar problem with the steel blue mill set http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,578.0.html

You can fix it yourself by downloading a copy of the screen designer, load the screen set (TurnSilverBlue.lset) in your Mach3 folder. select screen 4 from the buttons along the top (sometimes need to click twice) then simply swap the buttons in question by draging them into their proper places OR you could double click to get at their definition screens and swap the oem codes (code 179 should be 181 and visa virsa).

Hope this helps

Ian

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Macro Parameters

« on: November 24, 2007, 04:39:26 AM »

glad to help. As far as I'm aware you're limited to the three. see the customization UG http://www.machsupport.com/documentation/Customizing.pdf and in the wiki http://www.machsupport.com/MachCustomizeWiki/index.php?title=Mach_specific_Subroutines/Functions_grouped_by_purpose#Arguments_of_macro_call

if you need more inputs to your macro, then depending on what you need to do you could use the gcode param block and pick them up in your macro with GetVar.

Cheers

Ian

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Macro Parameters

« on: November 23, 2007, 07:16:51 AM »

M666 P7 Q5 S3

param1() is P i.e. 7 in this case as you know, param2() returns Q i.e. 5 and param3() returns S i.e. 3

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General Mach Discussion / Re: edge finding/2.5D probing

« on: November 22, 2007, 11:03:43 AM »

couple of updates: Couldn't seem to get anywhere Terry with the delays. But I've found another way of getting round the problem. If I make sure that probing is started on integer X and Y and stepover is integer then it seems quite happy. Of course this is only really practical if you're in mm. If I make the machine coords the same as work offsets then it's even more likely to succeed -  .

Did a probe of a good chunk of my table with Art's wizard and sure enough same old same old - failed in stripes in both X and Y - looks a bit like tartan!!!! That's how I came to figure out the integer bit - set everything to integer boundaries with no work offsets and it works every time!!!!

I've also added a bounded 3D probe vid to the web page for your entertainment  http://www.razordance.co.uk/probe25D.htm

How's the software going? - got it probing yet?

Ian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Macro Question

« on: November 22, 2007, 09:01:52 AM »

Hi mhdale - I think you're correct in thinking that although your initialization macro runs and sets your outputs as you require, the system is then doing a reset and turning them back off.

Have you thought of achieving what you want by simply putting a doButton(3) as the last line of your initialization macro. Then you can forget about pre-initialization and just run your program and it will stop at the end of your macro - you then just hit cycle-start to continue.

Just a thought

Ian