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Spanish / Re: mach3 intrface + final race

« on: April 29, 2021, 04:42:07 PM »

The green wire will go into one of the inputs.  The green wire will be 0 or 5V depending on the switch state.

Then configure ports and pins, Input Signals, X Home to Port 1 pin 10 or which of the 5 inputs you have used, It will be one of the following 5 pins 10,11,12,13 or 15

You may need to tick the Active low too.

You also need to put the Black to ground (GND) or 0V and the Red wire to +5 Volt.

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Spanish / Re: mach3 intrface + final race

« on: April 29, 2021, 09:28:41 AM »

Here is the diagram for the end stop board :-

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Drifting X,Y,Z values.

« on: April 29, 2021, 08:56:50 AM »

I would try running the path without the spindle running and clear of the work but at a known start point and then check it after the last move to see if its out of position.  Then try it with the spindle running and see what the result is.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Set G01 feedrate from a macro...

« on: April 24, 2021, 11:30:46 AM »

What happens if you issue the M801 before the G01 line, I am not sure just when the M code is executed but I think its after the move commands.

You can do a message in the M801 that will show in the status line.

Message("In Here")
Sleep(50)

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Set G01 feedrate from a macro...

« on: April 23, 2021, 07:47:10 PM »

Are you sure the M801.m1s is being run?

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Tool zero macro

« on: April 23, 2021, 01:46:54 PM »

It could be you have a G43 active with a tool offset and the machine is trying to move up in Z to this position.

Add a G49 to the safe start line of your programs and remove any G43 commands until you have a Z move.

E.g.

G21 G40 G80 G49

N1 (Spot Drill)
T1 M6
G54 G00 G90 X0 Y0 S4000 M3
G43 Z10.
G01 Z1. F250.
Etc....

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Jog mode vs. Program mode

« on: April 21, 2021, 08:59:24 PM »

The Jog rate might be set at something less than 100%, Press the TAB key on the keyboard and make sure Jog is at 100% then retune your motors, making sure steps per are set correctly.

You can check movement with a Dial Clock and enter this code in MDI screen :-

Metric, Move 1mm from current position
G01 G91 X1. F25.

Inch, Move 50 thousands from current position
G01 G91 X.05 F1.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 is costly of PC hardware resources. Why?

« on: April 19, 2021, 07:57:29 PM »

I am running the ESS card and Mach4 hobby on an Intel Core i5-3550K CPU @ 3.3GHz with 16Gb ram and it runs your code at 5 to 6% and the odd spike to 14%.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Boxford 160 TCL turret

« on: April 12, 2021, 06:30:24 PM »

Your machine has the tools at the back so you need to have the tool path above set and arcs reversed.

I have adjusted your XML so it looks like mine for my Boxford 160

%
O0134(TEST O/D TURNING)
G18 (Use X/Z Plane Mode)
G40 (Cancel Nose Radius Compensation)
G90 (Use Absolute Distance Mode)
G80 (Cancel Canned Cycles)
G21 (Use Metric Units)
G95 (Feed Per Rev Mode)
G0 X52.5 Z1.25 (Move Rapidly To Part Start Position)
G48 S2000 (Set CSS Mode To 2000 Max RPM)
G96 S200 M04 (Start Spindle CCW In CSS Mode)
F0.2 (Set Roughing Feed Rate To 0.2 Millimeters Per Minute)
(Begin Roughing Passes)
G0 X48
G1 Z-49.8
G0 X50.5 Z-48.75
G0 Z1.25
G0 X46
G1 Z-49.8
G0 X48.5 Z-48.75
G0 Z1.25
G0 X44
G1 Z-49.8
G0 X46.5 Z-48.75
G0 Z1.25
G0 X42
G1 Z-49.8
G0 X44.5 Z-48.75
G0 Z1.25
G0 X40
G1 Z-49.8
G0 X42.5 Z-48.75
G0 Z1.25
G0 X38
G1 Z-49.8
G0 X40.5 Z-48.75
G0 Z1.25
G0 X36
G1 Z-49.8
G0 X38.5 Z-48.75
G0 Z1.25
G0 X34
G1 Z-49.8
G0 X36.5 Z-48.75
G0 Z1.25
G0 X32
G1 Z-49.8
G0 X34.5 Z-48.75
G0 Z1.25
G0 X30
G1 Z-49.8
G0 X32.5 Z-48.75
G0 Z1.25
G0 X28
G1 Z-49.6947
G0 X30.5 Z-48.4447
G0 Z1.25
G0 X26
G1 Z-49.3635
G0 X28.5 Z-48.1135
G0 Z1.25
G0 X24
G1 Z-48.747
G0 X26.5 Z-47.497
G0 Z1.25
G0 X22
G1 Z-47.6533
G0 X24.5 Z-46.4033
G0 Z1.25
G0 Z1.25
G0 X20.4
G1 Z-45
G03 X30 Z-49.8 I4.8 K0
G1 X52.5
G0 Z1.25
F0.15 (Set Finishing Feed Rate To 0.15 Millimeters Per Minute)
(Begin Finishing Passes)
G0 X20
G1 Z-45
G03 X30 Z-50 I5 K0
G1 X52.5
G0 Z1.25
G97 S500
M05 (Stop Spindle)
M30 (End Program)
%

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Tool setter, M6, tool length offsets

« on: April 10, 2021, 05:22:10 PM »

By the way you can NOT use G91 in G53 mode