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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Bug Reports

« on: May 11, 2014, 04:13:23 PM »

Hi Terry,

just check the M6.mcs M6end.mcs and M3.mcs as the last update had some test code in them that should not have been sent out.  If there is any g-code lines in there delete it.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Bug Reports

« on: May 11, 2014, 04:10:43 PM »

When running Mach 4 mill using G95 (which I often do in Mach 3) it does not display in cuts per rev, is there a simple way round this?

There is but you need spindle feed back and Simulation in Mach4 has not got this, if you look at the YouTube video Brian and I did over Christmas that show CSS being tested, this was using G95 with G96.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Bug Reports

« on: May 11, 2014, 04:03:27 PM »

Terry,

the line repeat word (Lnn) is only active in subs, macros and canned cycles at the moment, it is on the list of to do's.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: More Problems with Radius Compensation G42 / G41

« on: May 10, 2014, 06:41:00 AM »

when you purchased your PC did you expect Microsoft to be sending you OS fixes every other day as they sold you a faulty piece of software.  NO, and you paid for that, this has cost you nothing and you have the option of using something other than Mach3 to control your machine.

By the way comp works just fine if you only use 1 sub and obey the lead in/out rules.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Bug Reports

« on: May 10, 2014, 05:53:49 AM »

Just try this and see what results you all get, what I get is very random.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Major problem reinstalling Mach3 after running for years

« on: May 07, 2014, 07:16:43 AM »

Is this a licensed copy of Mach or are you running the demo version

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Variables

« on: May 07, 2014, 06:42:35 AM »

Mach3 uses standard maths rules anything in [] is evaluated first as is *, only thing is the whole function must be enclosed in [] brackets.  #100=-1 is not allowed so you have to do #100=[1*-1], dont ask why it just one of those things.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: More Problems with Radius Compensation G42 / G41

« on: May 07, 2014, 06:34:59 AM »

Forget using subs and make it into 1 long program and it will work, for some reason cutter comp and subs are not stable.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Bug Reports

« on: May 05, 2014, 03:58:38 PM »

Its a local var problem not a sub or plane issue

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Comments about Mach4 in Demo

« on: May 01, 2014, 07:02:11 AM »

The G65 line passes the values into the local variables in the macro so the X3.0 is passed into #24 and the Y2.5 is passed to #25 Etc.  The #1 to #26 are local to the called macro so to be able to pass them into other macros they must be copied to global variables (#100 upward) or parameter passed.  Here is the list and its # number to receive the passed value.

A = #1
B = #2
C = #3
D = #7
E =  (Mach4 RESERVED SYSTEM WORD at the moment)
F = #9
G (RESERVED SYSTEM WORD)
H = #11
I = #4
J = #5
K = #6
L  (RESERVED SYSTEM WORD)
M = #13
N  (RESERVED SYSTEM WORD)
O  (RESERVED SYSTEM WORD)
P  (RESERVED SYSTEM WORD)
Q = #17
R = #18
S = #19
T = #20
U = #21
V = #22
W = #23
X = #24
Y = #25
Z = #26

As you can see from the list the numbers are not in order so care should be taken when using them, also not all the words can be used as some are system reserved.

Graham