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General Mach Discussion / Re: Jog continuous/incremental button

« on: May 24, 2006, 03:11:09 PM »

Ah ha. Sounds like I should be hanging out at screen 4. Thanks Brian,Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Jog continuous/incremental button

« on: May 24, 2006, 02:28:04 PM »

Is there a way ,using a keyboard emulator, to make the jog continuous/incremental button a switch function? Only possible with a macro? OEM switch closure?-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Pins and Jogging

« on: April 28, 2006, 08:00:11 PM »

Hmmm,so that means VB ,right? Homework... : (

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General Mach Discussion / Pins and Jogging

« on: April 28, 2006, 01:34:44 PM »

Hi,I know it's possibelt to use the pins to control jogging; is there a way to use a pin to change the jog mode('continuous' versus 'step')?
Also,is there a way to use the alloted input pins for such things as this and other things like limit switches ,in a binary mode so 5 inputs could become 32?-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Digitizing Probe.Any hints?

« on: April 26, 2006, 08:32:37 PM »

Oh and the shield is like 'case ground'?Not the ground for the port?-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Digitizing Probe.Any hints?

« on: April 26, 2006, 08:31:21 PM »

(Keith scratches head)You mean the two leads are the actual switch and the shield is just a noise reduction type ,case ground? So for the leads(not the shield)I use the 'common' ground of the parallel port and then just pick an input pin is what you're saying.Sorry to be so confused by this.-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Digitizing Probe.Any hints?

« on: April 26, 2006, 11:56:16 AM »

Okay,this may be an obvious but I have two ,'normally closed'(to shield) output leads on the probe. I see only one pin available in Mach3 as assignable for probe.What am I missing?-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Digitizing Probe.Any hints?

« on: April 25, 2006, 10:14:58 PM »

Oh okay.Thanks Brian.So it has two 'normally closed' switches and so I choose a pin that I'm not using on the P-port,right and ...is there a prefered set of pins say for that digitizing wizard that art has in Mach3?I don't recall the wizard asking for wheree to look for closure.And no pull up resistors are needed on these pins?-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Digitizing Probe.Any hints?

« on: April 25, 2006, 09:17:27 PM »

Hey people.I just bought one of these babies : http://www.cadcamcadcam.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=10
Anyone know any short cuts to getting her up and running.Documentation was slim.
Dying to try out the 'digitizing wizard' with it in M3.-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 buttons

« on: April 08, 2006, 07:00:02 PM »

Thanks Brian,so I guess without some messing around with the code,I can't use the reverse run to do like a 'finish pass' in the opposite direction the major cut takes place(since ,for instance,the last few lines include a rapid plane above the piece and that's where the last x and y would be cutting).-Keith