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General Mach Discussion / motion controllers working with Mach3

« on: January 23, 2013, 03:35:57 PM »

Anything other that Vital systems DSPMC that would work with mach3.

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General Mach Discussion / Need to know who has DSPMC and mach3 on a lathe

« on: January 23, 2013, 03:25:47 PM »

As the title says, Who is using DSPMC and Mach3 on a lathe using DC motors. not getting any help from Vital systems.
ray.

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General Mach Discussion / I can only see 2 decimal places on feedrate window

« on: January 21, 2013, 11:42:24 PM »

when running in inch/rev the feedrate window only shows 2 decimal places so if I run at .005"/rev you can't see the 5 what gives..
Ray..

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General Mach Discussion / Special code for threading?

« on: January 21, 2013, 09:58:46 PM »

Using DSPMC, is there a special G code to sink the spindle and feed before threading or do I just leave it in g95, Rufi at at Vital systems with the DSPMC said you have to trigger an LED with a G code when threading then turn it off when finished...
ray.

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dspMC/IP Motion Controller / g94/95 feed problem

« on: January 21, 2013, 09:17:48 PM »

In g94 inch/min in mdi I command g01 z1.f10. no problem, if I command g01 z1. and don't put a F command I get an error saying feed rate not commanded which is correct.
In G95 inch/rev start spindle and input g01 z1. f.010 and I get .010/rev no problem. Now if I input g01z1. and forget to put an F command the machine moves at about 50"/min to the postion and says "simulated feed no spindle feed back" Don't understand...where does this come from?
Ray.

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General Mach Discussion / PoKeys 55/ external push button help

« on: January 19, 2013, 03:40:50 PM »

It's been a year or so since I got my mill going and most of the functions I use on on the hand held MPG so I never used any external push buttons lick Cycle start feed hold etc. Now I have a lathe running on Mach3 and it does have some external buttons, cycle start feed hold, coolant on/off and I think I would like to use them. I do have some inputs left on my breakout board from vital systems DSPMC that I can use but don't have a clue how to emulate the cycle start externally. I also have PoKeys 55 USB board that I purchased about a year ago and don't have a clue what to do with that, my question is, does anybody know of any video's out there that I can watch or step by step instruction.
Thanks Ray.

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General Mach Discussion / Trying the 3d probing/digitizing function

« on: December 06, 2011, 01:36:52 AM »

I activated the 3d plugin and when I set up the parameters a box pops up and says test the probe and when I do the tick goes in the box so the probe is working.
I cycle start, the xy moves then the z, I touch the probe and then I get a box saying "previous sequence not yet met" can't get rid of it' can't stop the program or reset, have to kill the machine, any ideas.
Ray.

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General Mach Discussion / How do I get the newer version of tool path

« on: December 03, 2011, 02:06:47 PM »

Looking at the video of the tool path version 1.71 and newer with the rotating tool, I don't have that. My version of Mach3 is 3.042.020
Ray.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Machine jumps when in program and looking at last wizard

« on: December 03, 2011, 02:02:06 PM »

I'm still testing and when I'm running the wizards in program run screen and then I would like to check the parameters that I set in that wizard, I go to the last wizard and machine machine jumps about 1/4" in rapid and snapped my 1/2" end mill. I don't have a problem with that if that's the way it is( don't go into the wizard screen when running) but I am trying to evaluate the system to put it out in the real world. I tried many wizards including the standard ones included with Mach3 and they did the same.
So far I  am very impressed.
Ray.

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General Mach Discussion / Normal condition ? and a few other questions

« on: December 03, 2011, 10:06:34 AM »

I just turned on my machine and it flashes normal/abnormal condition, if I click on the box it says " g90/g91 state axis are not referred to as normal" everything looks good.
As I'm here, I have a few other questions. I am still putting Mach through it's paces and was wondering if the Mach wizard for text works, I can't get much to happen, it posts about 10 lines of info with some go2/3s with no values.
First, I do understand abs/inc and g54/59 work offsets, so after sending the machine home I can zero my xyz and if I clear my work offsets I don't get zero on my abs, screen, It always shows X .0008" & Y .001" If I go back to my work offsets that value is in the g54.
I take it out so the current work offset read zero, then It puts the values into the inc/rel screen, so i zero the xyz, then it puts the values back into the work offsets and so on and on and on....
Ray.