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General Mach Discussion / Re: Driver gets lost?
« on: September 16, 2011, 10:18:12 AM »
I thought this thread had to do with somebody refusing to "stop and ask for directions", most likely posted by one of our wives! :-)

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What "pin" in the "outputs" do you have selected under ports and pins? Is this the pin your relay is connected to?

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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Starting over "the right way?"
« on: September 15, 2011, 08:49:25 PM »
Ok so I am back to square one. I had 2 profiles working great except they were sharing a homing script (I am sure it was because I didnt create, copy or clone the screen for each profile) . I have a few questions that I dont seem to understand from reading the manual.
So do I create a profile from the MSM master?
Install all of my xml info into it?
Copy or clone the screen from the settings page and save as a custom screen set?
Do I copy the M codes on the settings page too?
I am just so frustrated, it was working so well but I screwed it up.

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it appears I have been able to screw it up pretty well

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Do you have to copy and load everytime you do a mod on that profile? Or once that screen is associated with that profile can it be editted direct?
You will have to copy the screen and save as a different name and then you can edit the button in it. To load a different screen in Mach look at the View Menu then Load Screen.
Hood

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General Mach Discussion / Multiple homing routines on different machines?
« on: September 15, 2011, 02:27:43 PM »
 ???
   Earlier this week I was helped in setting up a homing routine with multiple axis moving. With everyones help here I was able to get it working quite well on a machine with 3 limit switches using 3 different pins.

   However I also use the same computer and subsequent Mach 3 application on different machines,. These machines all have different profiles. The first oddity was when I hit "ref all" on my mill with 1 input pin for the limits. Z retracted first as it should in this case, stopped and backed off of the switch the prescribed amount. Upon starting the X & Y axis whenever it hits the first switch it stops and the other axis is left out. I looked at the script and it was my script for the other machine.
   Can each profile have a different script for homing?
   Have I forgot to load the screen to modify and therefore both profiles are sharing the same sceen?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Homing Macro?
« on: September 12, 2011, 10:52:17 AM »
BR, I am in no way a machinist and have very little if any "guided" experience besides the tips from here, reading and youtube. It took me a while to figure out how to recover if a mistake was made. I got tired of trashing all of the work. Now I start the machine up, ref all home, load the gcode,  then 0 out on the part, then hit play. Sure makes it easy to recover if I break a tool or see something negative about to happen. I can now just ref all home, go back to 0 and then start the gcode somewhere near the line of error. I am sure you were fully aware of the process, I spit it out there because there is surely more to learn in those regards. If you see another step or precaution, let me know. I only want to get better.
Not picking on ya but I bet MOST don't ever refhome the machine. I would say 50% don't even know what it means to refhome(;-)

 Fire up the machine, Load Gcode program , load material ,set Work 0,0,0 and go(;-)

NOw that is just an opinion based on years of working with Mach3 and PEOPLE,

 (;-) TP



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General Mach Discussion / Re: Homing Macro?
« on: September 12, 2011, 10:45:33 AM »
Ya, exactly. I too think it is impressive. Hence why I wanted to do it. Not for any real reason than to start to understand how to manipulate the code or screens. After a little thought, I do see it wiser to raise the Z first. I have a tendency to crash anyway. It is amazing just how slow a machine (if you can call a Sherline based mill, a machine?) can crash and still not be able to react. :-)
When I hit my reference home button, that's what impresses the onlookers; to see it move all at once and find each of the homes at the same time. Their expression is priceless. Great way to get there attention before the chips fly.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Homing Macro?
« on: September 10, 2011, 10:24:30 PM »
Gerry, I did change it to the above script with the DoButton(24) etc. I didnt see any difference in its operaton in relation to the RefCombination(4) RefCombination(3) script.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Homing Macro?
« on: September 10, 2011, 10:17:29 PM »
Gerry, thanks for the input. What exactly is the difference here? Today is the first day of me figuring any of this out. Or should I say altering any of my own screens after much deliberation and hesitancy. Like most things, it hasnt been as bad as I thought. Of course dont tell Dave of CVI/MSM that, he has been answering plenty of questions before I got this far. :-)
The proper way is probably:

DoButton(24)
Refcombination(3)

And you need to change every button, as each is unique.