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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Endomatic - double ended bar facing & centreing.

« on: September 08, 2021, 06:03:33 PM »

Its hard to say without knowing a bit more. But

Mach3 and Mach4 are 6 axis controllers but all axis are blended together so both ends would start and finish at the same time.

Maybe one end could use X axis and the other Y axis and centre height could use Z axis.

but if it faces and centres with more than one tool then its not going to be easy.  If you use a spot drill with a facing and chamfering cutter in one then I can see it working.

The other option is you use Mach4 Industrial and 2 Galils and use the multi planner option where each end runs a separate g-code file with wait codes to sync them.  Its a wild ride at first but well worth the flexibility you get.
 

 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: x axis not sometiimes not working

« on: September 08, 2021, 05:34:44 PM »

When you say it fails, do you get a high pitch noise or just the axis stops moving?


Some pictures of the control and motor tuning window will help

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 has control but steppers run one direction only

« on: September 08, 2021, 05:29:11 PM »

Have you checked the hotkeys settings on the config menu

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General Mach Discussion / Re: x axis not sometiimes not working

« on: September 06, 2021, 06:49:36 PM »

We need more detail.

e.g. USB, IP, LPT, breakout board and motion controller etc.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 has control but steppers run one direction only

« on: September 06, 2021, 06:45:04 PM »

You are missing the direction signal to the drivers or you have no dir pin/port set in the config

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: About G Code of Mach4 Demo

« on: August 30, 2021, 09:35:36 PM »

It could be the M29 command, ridged tapping is only supported in the industrial version I think.

It could also be you need to be in feed per rev G95

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 lathe macros

« on: August 26, 2021, 08:31:04 PM »

To call a tool in Mach4 lathe you use T0202

(T02) Tool 2 (02) offset 2

You need to set your steps per for 1 degree of rotation on the turret, number of degrees is calculated for the number of tools moved.

8 Station turret needs to move 45 degrees per tool.

You also need to change these lines to the following lines

Change test data for real data

selectedtool = 5 -- mc.mcToolGetSelected(inst)
currenttool   = 1 -- mc.mcToolGetCurrent(inst)

To

selectedtool = mc.mcToolGetSelected(inst)
currenttool   = mc.mcToolGetCurrent(inst)

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 lathe macros

« on: August 24, 2021, 08:58:44 PM »

You could try this macro, I have no idea if its any good to you.

No warranty given or implied.

Code: [Select]

-- Mach4Turn 8 position tool Turret

 function m6()
 
 inst = mc.mcGetInstance()
 selectedtool = 5 -- mc.mcToolGetSelected(inst)
 currenttool  = 1 -- mc.mcToolGetCurrent(inst)
 Rlock = 1   -- ' Sets the Relock Movement in Degrees Value 

  if (selectedtool > 8) or (selectedtool < 1) then
    mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst,"Tool Number Out of Range.")
    do return end
end
 
 if (selectedtool == currenttool) then
  mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst,"No tool change needed.")
    do return end
end
 
 --'------ Select Tool ------------------------------------
 
mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst,"Moving to Tool " ..selectedtool )
   
if (selectedtool > currenttool) then
Moves =  selectedtool - currenttool
Moves = (Moves * 45) + 1
mc.mcCntlSetLastError("  G00 A" ..Moves);
end   
         
if (selectedtool < currenttool) then
Moves = ((8 - currenttool) + selectedtool)
Moves = (Moves * 45) + 1 
mc.mcCntlSetLastError(" G00 A " ..Moves);
end   
       
  mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst,"Tool Loaded")

--'------------ end Tool Change ------------------------

mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst," Turret Locking ")
mc.mcCntlGcodeExecuteWait(inst,  "G52 A-" ..Moves);
mc.mcCntlGcodeExecuteWait(inst,  "G00 G90 A0");
mc.mcCntlGcodeExecuteWait(inst,  "G00 G91 A-" ..Rlock ); -- ' Lock Turret
mc.mcCntlGcodeExecuteWait(inst,  "G52 A0");
mc.mcCntlGcodeExecuteWait(inst,  "G90");   --' Reset to ABS
tool = selectedtool
 
mc.mcToolSetCurrent(inst, selectedtool)

if (mc.mcInEditor() == 1) then
m6()
end
end


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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: G68 ain´t not working any longer...

« on: August 22, 2021, 04:18:09 PM »

The first thing is to upgrade to the latest Mach4

https://www.machsupport.com/ftp/Mach4/DevlopmentVersions/Mach4Hobby_Installer-4.2.0.4740.exe

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PoKeys / Re: Pokeys57CNC/Mach4 and 2 Probes

« on: August 22, 2021, 02:32:50 PM »

I would pass the probe signals through a relay that is switched by an M code into G31