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Brains Development / Re: Execution M00 for Brains

« on: May 08, 2023, 01:13:43 PM »

I need a better explanation of what you are trying to do.

If you do not know the distance the X axis needs to travel then you could put the sensor into the G31 skip signal and a soon as the signal is seen the X axis stops moving and the next line of code continues.

G01 G31 X300. F250. keeps moving until the skip signal is triggered or X gets to 300.

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Brains Development / Re: Execution M00 for Brains

« on: May 07, 2023, 05:03:33 PM »

Why can you not use g-code?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: T1 command does not work

« on: May 07, 2023, 04:53:25 PM »

Lathe uses T0101 and Mill uses T1 M6

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General Mach Discussion / Re: DIY stepper-servo

« on: April 28, 2023, 10:35:23 AM »

Yes I have played with them, not very good, very high latency, press jog and wait for it to move then wait for it to stop, The PID tuning is a real pain.

If you find different let me know what you did.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Return tool to tool holder when finish working.

« on: April 27, 2023, 03:51:07 PM »

Here is the latest version of the macro.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Return tool to tool holder when finish working.

« on: April 26, 2023, 07:16:07 PM »

It looks like you have a few problems :-

1. Make sure you have 'Tool selections persistent' turned on, this will remember the current tool over power downs , see image.  Click the tool DRO on the program run screen, enter a number and press return, exit Mach3 and restart, is the tool number still set?

2. This macro is for a rack type tool changer with no return function so we need to do one for your setup.

3. We need to know the position of the first tool holder relative to the home position and the pitch spacing of the tools.  Output used for the tool release, output used for dust shoe lift if fitted.

With this info we can start and fix your problem.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Return tool to tool holder when finish working.

« on: April 25, 2023, 09:51:12 AM »

you can call T0 M6 and then the script can just put the tool way, the M6Start.m1s code may need to be modified to do it.

Post your script and we can take a look.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Can't get lathe out of Constant surface speed mode - I'm going nuts - help

« on: April 25, 2023, 09:47:04 AM »

Post your code so we can see just what it is doing.

Are you set to feed per minute or feed per rev?

 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Can't get lathe out of Constant surface speed mode - I'm going nuts - help

« on: April 22, 2023, 01:00:33 PM »

G97 S1000 M3 will set the spindle speed to a fixed speed of 1000 RPM.

G96 S200 M3 will set the spindle speed to 200 feet or 200 meters a minute based on the cutting diameter and will adjust the speed as the diameter changes.  Tool diameter offsets have to be set correctly too.

Just typing G97 will not change anything if you do not issue a Snnnn M3 with it.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 atc on boxford lathe

« on: April 16, 2023, 12:17:37 PM »

You could try this one I did many years ago for Boxford 125/160 lathes.

Rename the file and put it in the correct profile macro folder.