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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Re: G73/G83

« on: September 17, 2010, 03:57:17 AM »

Where can it get the SS v16bd plugin?  I seem to have missed that.

Cheers
Calum

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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Re: MSM Beta quality Satisfaction?

« on: September 15, 2010, 04:26:53 AM »

Hi Dave,

I think MSM is great, I needed to learn a few things to get the best out of it.  I purchased a probe because of it and have found this to work well now that the issue with the SS interface has been fixed.  Reported bugs were dealt to quickly and efficiently, beta 10 seems stable and vary usable.  I don't think I'll ever need to go back to the old screen set.

Keep up the great work and thank Brian for being on board too.

Calum

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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Re: Wrong feed rate

« on: September 13, 2010, 04:29:21 AM »

Hi Dave,

I fixed the feed rate override, it was the No FRO on Queue setting on the Mach general config.

If just installed beta 10 but still have the low feed rate guess its something to do with Mach and/or SS but I can put up with this.  Everything works fine and is usable, thanks for all of your dedication and hard work, I love the new screen and wont go back to the old one now.

Calum

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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Re: Wrong feed rate

« on: September 11, 2010, 08:01:27 PM »

Great thanks Brian and Dave I now have the TP, MT and probing all working with my SS, the feed rate is much better than it was but the FRO is now always a bit on the low side, 100 mm/m reads 89-95, 1000 reads 925 and 3000 reads 2920, is this some calculation overhead in Mach or SS?  Or is there a setting I've missed.  I get the same resoults in CV or ES mode.

I note that the feed rate override don't change the feed rate while the machine is running but will work if it is set before I run the code, is this an intentional change?

Calum

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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Re: Feedrate with SS and MSM problem

« on: September 04, 2010, 12:38:32 AM »

This might be related to the issue I reported about wrong feed rates with SS.  Brina thinks it has someting to do with the infor Mach gets back from SS.

Calum

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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Re: Wrong feed rate

« on: August 27, 2010, 06:04:38 PM »

Yes.  I did report this multi-axis move in this forum and Dave got me to send him the probe log file and XML which he forwarded to you at the time.  Just wondering if this could be an SS issue too.

Calum

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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Re: Wrong feed rate

« on: August 27, 2010, 04:27:39 PM »

Yes that's fine, I'll ignore the read out for now and just get on with it.

Thanks Brian

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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Re: Wrong feed rate

« on: August 27, 2010, 03:52:12 PM »

Thanks Brian, I was wondering is my issues were because of the SS, I'll give it a test.

Could this be the reason I sometimes get a multi axis move when I'm setting TLO etc?

Calum

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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Wrong feed rate

« on: August 26, 2010, 03:42:10 AM »

I have noticed that the feed rate when running a job is around 10% of what the gcode set so I had a look into the CV setting which took a while and a bit of reading of old posts in the forum but I think I have now got it switching between CV and ES mode the way it should.  But the feed rate is not showing what was requested, for example when I enter a simple move in MDI, G1 X300 F1000 the FRO shows 973.  When I run the following gcode

G1 X0 Y0 F1000
G1 X100
G1 Y100
G1 X0 Y0
M30

The FRO shows a feed rate of 937 for lines 1 -3 and 2930 for the return to X0 Y0.  It seems to do this in both CV and ES mode.

I have tried this in Mack3.42.40 and it all goes as it should.  I then tried it with the the 1024 screen on Mach3.43.19 and observed the same error I had with MSM beta 5 and Mach3.43.19.  Looks like a bug in this version of Mach or something corrupt in my XML, can anyone confirm this one way or another please?

Calum

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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Re: Returning to start of code after tool change!

« on: August 22, 2010, 03:27:18 AM »

Hi Dave,

1) I wasn't using the “Probe Z-” because I have an SS and I had read that probing didn't like a zero diameter.  I have tried it now and all works fine just got to remember the TP offset.

2) No worries I was just being lazy, I'll get the hang of changing the data.

3) No longer an issue now that I know how to use probe Z-.

4) I had a feeling I was doing it the wrong way, thanks for putting me on the right path this is easier.

Here are a couple of observations which you may be aware of -
One of the Wizard buttons on the Load tab blacks out when I load gcode.
The NRH/RH led does not light when a tool is selected, the empty led works fine.
I think the CV Angle on the Settings tab is reading the wrong data from the Mach config, looks more like the CV Dist Tolerance.


Cheers
Calum