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General Mach Discussion / Re: Picatinny Probe Mount Offset

« on: October 04, 2020, 06:06:23 PM »

As I said there are many ways to do it.  Its the one that works for you that is best.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Copycat plugin to "teach" more than 3 axis possible ?

« on: October 04, 2020, 06:04:47 PM »

You can load the copycat screen and remove the Rem( ' ) out of each buttons VB code for A & B axis.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Picatinny Probe Mount Offset

« on: October 04, 2020, 05:54:36 PM »

You could clock a hole or boss with a clock in the spindle and zero out X&Y and take a reading of the machine position figures.

Then probe the bore/boss with the probe and then you will have another set of figures the difference between them can be stored in 2 DRO's on screen for you to adjust the position by or hard coded into your probing routines at the end of the calculations.

Or you could pick a completely different method.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 turn spindle dro not working, spindle speed changing while jogging

« on: September 23, 2020, 07:11:00 PM »

The NVUM is not a good option.  You will have much better results with a standard LPT board.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Running G-Code slows machine

« on: September 19, 2020, 07:00:53 PM »

The code looks ok so it must be on override that is active.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 turn spindle dro not working, spindle speed changing while jogging

« on: September 19, 2020, 06:47:20 PM »

What do you have for the index pulse?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Running G-Code slows machine

« on: September 19, 2020, 06:43:19 PM »

Are you in Inches or MM?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: 3D touch-probe with large offset to spindel

« on: September 17, 2020, 09:47:52 PM »

Have 2 buttons one that allows for the probe/spindle offset and one that is probe centre line only.  You could also have a spindle c/l only button too.

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Mach4 Toolbox / Re: problem about tool change M6

« on: September 17, 2020, 09:43:11 PM »

It looks like the macro needs some flags to set as things happen so on exit it knows it completed the change, start a counter as the first thing and then at every stage increment it by 1 for moves open and close tool clamp etc. then when the macro exits check the value and see if its done all the steps.

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Mach4 Toolbox / Re: problem about tool change M6

« on: September 16, 2020, 09:56:57 PM »

My mistake, I was thinking it was Mach3.