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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Tool Change macro M56 and T0101 etc. problem

« on: January 10, 2020, 09:56:00 AM »

OK, Mach4. Lathe? Probably because you're using T0101. So what IS M56, a custom macro of some kind?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: cannot get warp9 ess to connect to any pc

« on: January 08, 2020, 08:18:37 AM »

You have, of course, run their Configurator, yes? And then gone to the Warp9 site and followed the explicit setup there and following that, contacted Andy at Warp9 forums, the purveyor of the best support in the business? IF NOT, give that a go.

Tom

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Zeroing and extents

« on: December 24, 2019, 11:28:21 AM »

I'm likely not understanding. Extents, in my mind, are the extents of the machine travel. Your X,Y,Z zeros on the stock corner can be anywhere you set it. And once set, hopefully your gcode travels stay inside the extents! With the stock Mach4 screen colors, your extents show on the display in grey dashed lines, I guess, really, IF you have it turned on to display, your gcode travels show in colors for feed and rapid moves. If you close the gcode, load another, the new one shows in colors. If no gcode is loaded, you can still see the extents, defined in Homing and Limits, on the screen, showing the spindle location, and it will always be the same, no gcode, gcode, doesn't matter to the extents.

If you have limit switches, they will stop you from going outside the extents, if no limit switches, soft limits can stop this. You should have both, but for sure, soft limits set to the "extents" of you machines travel. Physical limit switches are a last resort, personally in 10 years with my mill, I've never hit one. I have hand cranked up to the soft limit, however:) I have soft limits set .020" off the hard, physical, last-resort, limit switches.

But I digress.................

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Zeroing and extents

« on: December 24, 2019, 09:02:16 AM »

You didn't mention if you have home switches. If you DON'T have home switches, I don't know how extents are determined, someone else will have to chime in. If you DO have home switches, I think extents are defined in Config/Control/Homing and soft limits or some such wording. At least that's how I THINK it works. I don't know that extents are determined by the gcode, but as I say, I have no experience with a machine without limit switches.

My settings attached for ref., and mine might seem weird to some, so no pithy remarks on that:)

Of course, I could be completely wrong:)

Tom

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: How to automatically start Mach 4 after booting windows 10?

« on: December 04, 2019, 07:49:35 AM »

Ah, of course.......I use Start10 in favor of the "new" Windows 10 Start menu, so for me the Startup folder is where it always was!! Didn't even think of that as I rarely, as in NEVER, SEE the Windows 10 Start menu. Sorry for not thinking of that:)

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: How to automatically start Mach 4 after booting windows 10?

« on: December 03, 2019, 06:25:12 AM »

The Startup folder still exists in Windows 10, doesn't it? You'd have to manually move a Mach4 shortcut there. That seems like it should work.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: How do I create a desktop icon for my custom Mach 4 profile?

« on: November 14, 2019, 02:50:41 PM »

Desktop shortcut to Mach4GUI.exe, then right click, Properties.

 Target C:\Mach4Hobby\Mach4GUI.exe /p YourProfileNameHere

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Issues with VistaCNC P2-S USB pendant and Mach4

« on: November 10, 2019, 08:21:58 AM »

I guess I'm stumped them! An email to Lee at VistaCNC might be in order. support at vistacnc.com

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Issues with VistaCNC P2-S USB pendant and Mach4

« on: November 09, 2019, 05:16:02 PM »

Just to be sure, the Estop on the P2S is released, and your Estop loop in Mach4 is released such that you can run the machine OK without the P2S connected?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Windows 10 home and mach4

« on: October 31, 2019, 07:04:46 PM »

My experience, and bullet point 4 in the link I provided, says EVERYTHING in Personalization is greyed out and cannot be changed. This may have changed since I did it, and I DID go buy licenses for the computers I was doing just to give money to Microsoft to keep them over a trillion in market cap!! Hell of a guy, eh?