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General Mach Discussion / Re: Macro Pump

« on: May 03, 2007, 02:44:29 PM »

First load the screen set with the reset mod in to mach, go to 'operator' menu and select 'edit button script'.

Editable buttons will flash.

Select reset button on screen, editor will open, enter your code,

Make sure last line of script has a return on the end

Select save.

Graham.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Macro Pump

« on: May 03, 2007, 02:29:15 PM »

You can set the tickers like this :-

Sub SetTicker (number as Int, text as String)

number is from 1 to 255

text is any text you wish to display

e.g.         SetTicker 205, "This is a very long error message because you seem to have done something very silly"

Graham.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Getting up and running in Vista

« on: May 03, 2007, 02:05:09 PM »

My way forward with Vista was XP.

Graham.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Macro Pump

« on: May 03, 2007, 02:01:53 PM »

This is where we got our info

http://www.artsoftcontrols.com/MachCustomizeWiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Graham.

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: pocket with islands

« on: May 02, 2007, 05:50:19 PM »

Load DXF.

select layer 2

Select Pocketing

enter tool dia, eg. .125

click create pocket.

Graham.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Mach3 G-CODE Size/Scale problem

« on: May 02, 2007, 05:07:33 PM »

Useless is not in the Mach vocab, I bet you learned to drive in 20 minutes too, 

Steps per is what you need to set.

Open the motor tuning page and click X axis

In the steps per you should have 4000 set if your xylotex driver card is set to full step.

If its set to half step then the steps per should be 8000

If its set to quarter step then steps per should be 16000

Set velocity to around 60 and Acceleration to 1 you must then click 'save axis settings' then try the axis.

If it moves set Y and Z the same.

Check the amount the axis is moving against what you have asked it to move.

If all is well then you can play around with the velocity and acceleration to get the optimum from your drives.

Graham.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: "SmartPath" or Waterjet Speed ramping based on geometry question??

« on: May 02, 2007, 04:41:05 PM »

There is no set function for doing this, but it can be done with the accel/decel, by setting this to ramp up and down at a slow rate it is possible.

Graham.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Project just finished

« on: May 02, 2007, 12:23:06 PM »

That looks very nice, I always wondered what that thin nozel was for on the vac. 

Graham.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: revision history

« on: May 02, 2007, 12:17:16 PM »

http://www.artsoftcontrols.com/Downloads/machdownloads/Changelist90.txt

Graham.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Macro Pump

« on: May 02, 2007, 12:11:56 PM »

The macro pump is a list of VB commands stored in a file called MacroPump.m1s in the current profile.

Any valid VB script can be used.  The macropump runs about 40 times a second continually.  it must be enable in general config first and mach re-run to start the process.

What are you tring to do?. it may have been done already.

There is some info here :- http://www.artsoftcontrols.com/MachCustomizeWiki/index.php?search=macropump&go=Go

Graham.