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General Mach Discussion / Re: ports and pins

« on: December 21, 2008, 06:45:15 PM »

news: i turned the pc off and started it up again and the jogging is back to normal. i'm going to leave the soft limits button off and deal with that another day, but i still have the file load problem. do i have to get Artsoft to send another download link in order to reinstall mach?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ports and pins

« on: December 21, 2008, 06:03:49 PM »

Hood, i have tried to send a pic 4 times now, keep getting a message saying that there is already a file w/ that name, but i have renamed the file every time.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ports and pins

« on: December 21, 2008, 05:58:36 PM »

i sent a reply w/ a picture but it hasn't shown up. i will try again

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ports and pins

« on: December 21, 2008, 05:42:02 PM »

i will pic the machine

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ports and pins

« on: December 21, 2008, 05:41:29 PM »

i forgot to mention -- it does this even though i deactivated the soft limits button on the main screen

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ports and pins

« on: December 21, 2008, 05:32:37 PM »

it gets weirder -- see above

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ports and pins

« on: December 21, 2008, 05:32:04 PM »

OK, now I'm really confused. since i played w/ the soft limits earlier, i thought i'd jog to the middle of the table just to see if maybe that had something to do w/ it, and i've apparently got that screwed up. the axes will only move in one direction and when i move in that direction and then try to move back, it will move about 1/2 inch and then stop -- that is, the axis will stop but the stepper will sound like it's being stressed. 1/2 inch is what i have the slow down set at. the table is x44 by y24 by z7, so I set the soft maxes at x43, y23, and z6, with the soft mins set at 0. the checks at the left under the heading Reversed are all red, the checks under the heading Home Neg are all red, and the checks under the Auto Zero are all green. I have 000Home set at the upper left corner if you are standing at the open end of the table where you would put the material in. is that all wrong?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ports and pins

« on: December 21, 2008, 05:01:54 PM »

It's kind of a simple file -- just a rectangle -- so the graphics card shouldn't be overloaded. I will reinstall Mach.
thanx again, bob

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ports and pins

« on: December 21, 2008, 04:59:55 PM »

disabling didn't work -- the file shows up in the FILE line but not in the green Gcode box

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ports and pins

« on: December 21, 2008, 04:54:07 PM »

if i disable the toolpath from config and it loads, do i then un-disable the toolpath to run the file?