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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Add a waiting time to the movement of the axes

« on: May 09, 2020, 05:20:41 PM »

Are we talking after midnight when the demand is low?

Or this will delay all movement until it times out

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Chinese BOB preventing input signals from MPG

« on: May 09, 2020, 05:05:19 PM »

So use something like :-

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Chinese BOB preventing input signals from MPG

« on: May 09, 2020, 03:08:54 PM »

The ESS has inputs for spindle encoders on port 3 so it can thread

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CS-Lab / Re: CSMIO/ip-A no encoder feedback / readout

« on: May 09, 2020, 03:01:52 PM »

Normally on a servo system when you disable mach you disable the drives too and then they output nothing

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CS-Lab / Re: CSMIO/ip-A no encoder feedback / readout

« on: May 09, 2020, 08:49:51 AM »

Why would you expect mach4 to change when disabled.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Adding more inputs or outputs to Mach3

« on: May 09, 2020, 07:39:00 AM »

I think the port get and put only work with the parallel port driver loaded.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: hard switches not working when program running in mach3

« on: May 08, 2020, 06:14:49 PM »

I think you will have to program them into the macropump macro and turn it on in config.

Check the inputs required and if active command a dobutton(n) for the corresponding action.
 

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Getting familiar with macros and cant get isMoving() to return right value

« on: May 08, 2020, 12:26:15 PM »

You would normally have it in a while loop, mach3 only updates ever 50ms to 100ms or in some cases a short sleep(50) after the call helps.

While isMoving()
Sleep(10)
Wend

or

state = isMoving()
Sleep(50)

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: TOOL CHANGE ISSUE

« on: May 06, 2020, 07:46:58 PM »

Is the run time clock counting when you think its hung, it was working here but it took it a while to go from tool 1 to 2 and 2 to 4 and back to 1

Has this ever worked correctly.

Some pictures of the setup may help and a description of the tool changer function.

Go into the macro folder and delete all the .mcc files.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: TOOL CHANGE ISSUE

« on: May 05, 2020, 09:49:14 PM »

Try this version :-