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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Kooky-ness
« on: April 25, 2012, 01:51:40 PM »
Hi again. Hood, you say you tried the Mach 3 version I am using (lock-down) with a Smoothstepper. I assume you have a hardwired e-stop. I would just like to use the screen e-stop/reset for now. In disabling e-stop in config. ports and pins/input, of course I can't use the screen stop. And besides, even though I can input in MDI now, just now, as I was about to, the axis jumped to an arbitrary place which to me sounds like I am still getting some kind of nonsense happening in the MDI window.
Can you tell me, in working with the Mach I am working with and Smoothstepper that you tried, how was the e-stop configured? Did you just use my XML?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Kooky-ness
« on: April 24, 2012, 07:37:25 PM »
OK, fixed. It was the assigned E-stop in ports and pins inputs. I disabled that. I'll have to dig deeper into how that handled with SS. Thanks again for your help Hood.-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Kooky-ness
« on: April 24, 2012, 07:14:28 PM »
Thanks. I was wondering if it was Windows because since I'm using the SS, I went to a laptop and didn't optimize XP. It all works pretty well (save for a few warnings about the 'SS plug-in corrupt' for instance but still works). I went over that with Greg from SS and tried a few things that didn't help (changing versions, etc.). Still the only anomaly is this problem as far as I can see.
-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Kooky-ness
« on: April 24, 2012, 07:01:27 PM »
I have e-stop set to a hotkey but that doesn't work (and I am assuming it would act as  reset because that's how I tried it once the emergency reset got triggered, never to actually trigger it myself). I know there are some issues with SS and the 'reset' button. I've never used that hotkey as the number I was trying to input though. I'll remove that hotkey if you thik that might be something related. Thanks for your help.
-keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Kooky-ness
« on: April 24, 2012, 05:59:13 PM »
Thanks Hood. No thw 'watchdog' isn't checked.
I've attached the XML but I find a few others in the Mach3 folder that I assumed were deleted when I removed and then reinstalled Mach. I assume they're no problem as long as I'm not calling them up.

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General Mach Discussion / Mach 3 Kooky-ness
« on: April 23, 2012, 09:53:13 PM »
I'm using the lockdown version of Mach. When I try to either insert a number in the DRO or in the MDI screen as soon as I get to the tenth of thousandth place (.0001) it triggers the reset/e-stop on the screen. Not before. It also happened when I put in a thousandth place and then went to type in an 'f' value in MDI page.
Any ideas?-Keith

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Yeah, as long as it's moving right but I haven't changed the wiring and don't remember that one axis being different from the other and I'm the curious type wondering if I just didn't remember that when I set up the system so long ago. A part of me seems to recall something like that but another part of me doesn't. No biggee, it works.-Keith

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Hi. It's been a long time since re-installing Mach 3 for me. I bought a Smoothstepper and am using a laptop now. Generally works well. However, it seems that for the X and only the X direction, in 'ports and pins', 'low-active' assignment, needs to not be checked in order to have the proper and normally accepted directions take place.
I don't remember that being the case but as I said, it's been a while. Every other axis for the 'Dir Low Active', is checked (all the 'step'  low active's are checked).
Anyone using a Sherline driver box that can confirm this to be the case?-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Probe Wizard
« on: June 06, 2010, 02:07:06 AM »
I bought this one here. Looks like the price went up in the past 5 years:
http://www.cadcamcadcam.com/contactprobe.aspx

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I guess that depends on which Rhino release. I have one of the first releases and it doesn't have that on mine. If Rhino would finally release a Mac version, I would probably upgrade, since I'm an avid Mac user now. Still the first releaase is amazingly good for some things believe it or not. Will check into MachCloud.-Keith

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