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General Mach Discussion / Re: Engraving text

« on: April 19, 2011, 08:57:11 PM »

Hi Bob
Thanks for the reply, I was wanting to define my engraving at the gcode level, so that it is done at runtime, by running a macro possibly.  I don't want to use any external tool to generate my engraving code.
Thanks for your input.

Andrew

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General Mach Discussion / Engraving text

« on: April 19, 2011, 07:16:35 PM »

Hi Guys,
I am trying to find a way write a gcode program so that I can engrave a row of text on my part.  At the moment I use the 'write' wizard to creat my engraving gcode which I then cut and paste into my main program.  But I am wanting to find a much cleaner solution, can I somehow call the relevant write macro from within the gcode program somehow? ie G00 X0 Y0 Z0, M750 "FRED WAS HERE".  All my engraving is the same font, same size, same seperation etc, just the text itself changes, and the position where the text is written.  Does anyone have any thoughts on how I can do this?

Thanks for your help

Andrew

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Saving Fixture Offsets

« on: June 18, 2010, 01:57:29 AM »

Hi
Thanks for your reply.  I have persist offsets ticked, but still no joy. I have tried .DoMenu(1,14) but that doesn't work either.

Regards
Andrew

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General Mach Discussion / Saving Fixture Offsets

« on: June 17, 2010, 11:56:06 PM »

Hi
Is there a way to save the fixture offsets from vb.  I have tried DoOEMButton(122), but this still requires you to press the save button.  I am setting my offsets with setVar(5241), but then I am wanting to save the changes.

Andrew

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Mach Screens / Screen Start Position

« on: March 08, 2010, 06:44:16 AM »

Hi
I am just wondering if there is a way to make the mach3 screen start up in a certain position (ie centre screen), and with a certain size, and if it is possible to change the FormBorderSyle?  I have written an application in C# and I have interfaced to mach with the com object, but for one particular task I want to actually look at the mach screen, but I want this to be at a certain spot within my main screen (within a control).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Andrew

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General Mach Discussion / KFlop/KAnalog

« on: January 27, 2010, 05:04:00 AM »

Hi
I am trying to use Mach3 with the KFlop/ KAnalog boards, and I have my motors turning fine as expected, but for the life of me I can't get any of the inputs or outputs working.
 I am using V4.19 of the dynomotion plugin. And the latest lock-down version of mach3.
If I hook an input up to Mach3 ie input 1 and I configure this to bit 136 on the kanalog board, I can see the bit change on the kmotion software but on the mach3 end the input 1 led blinks continually whether the switch is made or not.  Does anyone have experience with this problem???   Do I need to add anthing special to my initalise script that is run on reset??
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Andrew

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Door Safety Macro Problems

« on: August 23, 2009, 05:53:42 PM »

Hi Melee,
Thanks for your input.  The machine I am having trouble with is a special purpose machine, and my customer had problems with the operators bypassing the safety input (originally I just had it wired to the safety input as suggested).  So the decission was made to make the system look for both a door open and a door close before it would allow a program to be run.  In doing this I decided it would be best to remove the program from Mach3 once a door opened and again if the operator tried to run the program without completeing the complete door cycle.
Your suggestion of putting the brainwork into a macro that I call at the start of my program is excellent, and I thank you for the suggestion.  I will try this thismorning and see how I go.

Thanks again

Andrew

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Door Safety Macro Problems

« on: August 20, 2009, 01:34:17 AM »

Hi Scott,
Just nother question ....... Can I use a sleep(500) in the macropump? Or doesn't it like sleep commands either.

Regards
Andrew

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Door Safety Macro Problems

« on: August 20, 2009, 01:05:41 AM »

Hi Scott,

Thanks for your reply.  The while loops I have in there may be my problem.  I will change it and see how I go then.

Regards
Andrew

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VB and the development of wizards / Door Safety Macro Problems

« on: August 18, 2009, 07:08:02 PM »

Hi
I am having a few issues with my macropump, and am hoping someone can help. 
This macro works in a fasion, it does what I want but I get random errors occuring, like Cypress enable error, and sometimes I get a divide by zero error and sometime my system freezes (not sure if this one is related).  Sometimes the system will run for hours with no problems and other times I will only get a few minutes out of the beast
Basically what I am wanting to do is if my safety door is open I need to stop and close the current program and send a message back to a C# application - AKSYSTECH.ABORT, and then when the door is closed again re-enable the system and prompt to reload the last program.
I hope you can get the idea of what I am trying to do.

Regards
Andrew