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General Mach Discussion / Re: Touch plate procedure not working with tool 3

« on: August 21, 2023, 09:33:00 PM »

That is and AVID problem not something we can help with as we do not have the AVID screen set.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Touch plate procedure not working with tool 3

« on: August 21, 2023, 05:30:29 PM »

Post your macro so we can have a look.

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FAQs / Re: Mach 3 -just some custom macros

« on: August 21, 2023, 05:28:56 PM »

Check the M6Start.m1s module in the macro folder, that is where the spindle will be stopped, remove the command and save the macro.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help please! Z axis not cutting the correct depth

« on: August 21, 2023, 05:23:21 PM »

Mach3 is set to use tool 0 but the g-code is using tool 1 at line 3 (T1 M6).  Remove this line and try again.

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Building or Buying a Wood routing table.. Beginnners guide.. / Re: Industrial Machine CNC Help

« on: August 21, 2023, 05:16:58 PM »

Do you have the manual for this board or a link for it?

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Building or Buying a Wood routing table.. Beginnners guide.. / Re: Industrial Machine CNC Help

« on: August 21, 2023, 08:52:22 AM »

A square on picture of the relay board would help but :-

looking at what you have there you could use an old pc with a parallel port and just connect a cable to the relay board or you can invest in a motion controller e.g. Ethernet Smoothstepper or CS-Labs IP-M or one of the many more out there.

If you have an old PC with windows XP and a parallel port and LPT cable I would use that as it will run that without much messing about and if all is good swap to an ESS later if needed.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: ESS285 motor "counts per unit"

« on: August 20, 2023, 08:48:25 PM »

It may be worth watching this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gpqMM8jJy8

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Building or Buying a Wood routing table.. Beginnners guide.. / Re: Industrial Machine CNC Help

« on: August 20, 2023, 08:30:43 PM »

Hi Jeremy,

its better if you do it the other way around, post some pictures of the machine, control cabinet showing the installed parts and then we can see what you will need.  In most cases its not a big problem if its already been on a known controller.

Where are you based?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help please! Z axis not cutting the correct depth

« on: August 20, 2023, 08:21:02 PM »

When you look at the tool offset (lower centre of program run screen in pink) has it got a value in it?

What tool number (T??) and is in the first few lines of g-code?

Is there a G43 H?? value in the g-code?

When you set your tool did you have G54 selected in the offsets page?

Some pictures and the first 20 lines of your g-code would help.

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Mach3 and G-Rex / Re: Problem with Probe Z input

« on: August 17, 2023, 09:40:37 PM »

It sounds like a buggy script, post it here for us to take a look at it.