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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Re: Manuals not available thru the reference page. For me

« on: August 04, 2010, 01:34:53 AM »

Nope I am running a 32-bit AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.30GHz. It wouldnt suprise me if opened something in the wrong place or with the wrong program. Even though all my computers run Mach, I am setting it up in my laptop for practice. When I understand it a little more, I will load it into one that controls my mill. Though it might be pointing to the wrong directory, all of the buttons activate the category selected. ? BTW Vista Ultimate in office, Windows 7 home on the laptop and Xp on the machine control computer

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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Re: Manuals not available thru the reference page. For me

« on: August 03, 2010, 02:07:41 PM »

When I go back thru the the settings page, I am met with 2 dialog boxes. Upon clicking on "set utility path "C:\WINDOWS\system32\notepad.exe, then I click ok and I get this "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe". I am hoping this is correct. It does seem to display all of the information that I am looking for in the reference screen. Mostly the manual. Lots of reading and misunderstanding to do! Thanks and I am known to ask seemingly basic questions, I missed the basic classes and all of the ones after that.

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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Re: Manuals not available thru the reference page. For me

« on: August 03, 2010, 11:40:53 AM »

Never mind. I did get it resolved by uninstalling, reinstalling and then in the browse dialog box. I installed the link thru adobe, not directly to the folder? But all sseems to work fine in those regards. I am sure I will follow with plenty more questions but so far so good.

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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Manuals not available thru the reference page. For me

« on: August 03, 2010, 10:33:51 AM »

Dave, first of all your screens look great. Now for the bad part. I am going to be in over my head for the next few years or at least til I perish or switch hobbies. There is going to be a lot of new things for me to learn besides just trying to calibrate and run my machines. You all keep creating interesting things that I have no comprehension of how they work yet. On to the topic. I did uninstall 1 & 2. Installed Beta v2.1 and after I figured out how to get my taskbar to autohide everything was fine (at least I had control of the screens finally ) I was too embarassed to write you about that. I have access to the manual in the files but I cant seem to reference it thru the "reference tab" in fact nothing on the left hand side, ie user manual, Mach3 release notes, MSM Rel Notes, G & M Quick Reference & Gcode manual seem to activate. All of the buttons on the right side seem to work fine. Right during start up it seemed to allow me to point towards a specific file. I thought I had pointed it in the right direction (everything is in their default folders) as this is where I can read them from direct. I dont seem to see any way to change that now. Thanks and again good looking work. 

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Sieg Machines / Re: Welcome to the Sieg Machines forum

« on: July 23, 2010, 10:14:23 AM »

Are you selecting save settings at the bottom of the "config" box?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Home Limit Switch problems Mach3 with HobbyCNC Pro

« on: July 13, 2010, 03:58:04 PM »

This is why you use opto isolation. Connecting that ground on the machine is causing you the problem.

Hi Stemasoft,
I Have identical case with 3D-step card. I have shielded lines for stepper motors too; grounded at both ends. 3D-step card has those capasitors already. One interesting notice was that by deactivating - limit or home (with all axis) by sw the problem was gone. Card do not deliver that disturbing signal I believe. I tried to increase debounce to 0.7s but did not help. One idea is that my computer is bit too slow 900MHz and that causes timing issues with mach3. I have plan to make some oscilloscope measurements in near future to ensure that drivercard led's are not too fast to my eyes.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Home Limit Switch problems Mach3 with HobbyCNC Pro

« on: July 13, 2010, 11:14:43 AM »

Dont connect the ground at both ends. The ground for the shield should be connected at the controller. It is used to keep stray EMF or signals from being brought in. The connecting at both ends brings the machine gorund and controller ground together. This is the cause of many problems with the HCNC Pro. I have expereinced many issues with this same thing. With probes, touch plates, speed controllers. EVERY TIME. Dave is knowledgable about electronics, he knows how to stop the triggering he just has so many peple who screw up before that. He waits for you to research it a bit on your own. I used a metal case for mine because I had it and I think plastic looked cheap. Anyway that caused all of the triggering problems you refer to and never a diagnostic light showed up. In fact I turned the power off to the controller and ran a gcode and it worked. I knew something was wrong and used a cheap ground adapter and removed the ground momentarily and voila it worked. Check my username and see if you dont see those problems show up. Btw debounce and caps never would help mine til the ground issue was solved.

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Macros / Re: Imservice Toolchanger in Mach3

« on: July 03, 2010, 10:42:40 AM »

I know this is old but I believe Fred @ IMServi uses Deskcnc or Flashcut.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: What does "Allow Wave Files" do?

« on: July 02, 2010, 11:11:30 PM »

I searched under wave and speech not make sound. Thanks, I cant wait to try it. Should be funny.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Where do you live ?

« on: July 02, 2010, 11:04:49 PM »

I used to live in Msida in 1969! Went back to visit in 1995. What a fine place!

im from malta