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

« on: December 04, 2011, 07:40:03 PM »

It's a pity my Milltronics is so old and I don't want to learn but it would blow most controllers away, Hurco is is the same. Milltronics is conversational and G code, it has graphics, you can can draw a circle then draw a line in close proximity to the tangent point and it will snap it on to the circle and then you can that on the fly and just keep going.
For $2000. they upgrade the control, just don't know which way I should go, Have nice Fagor 8035, Fanuc 0 controls sitting here on the floor, or Mach3, EMC2....My feed hold works great now, they make is slow down because of the steppers I guess, I'm on servos and pulse coders and can stop on a dime. Yes the stop function shouldn't even be next to the feed hold, should be removed and should reset like any other machine.

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

« on: December 04, 2011, 07:20:29 PM »

Now I know why the Normal/Abnormal screen is flashing. While testing some of the wizards, some of the guys used Absolute for the I&J and not Inc, the system was telling that, cool.
Managed to get the text to work, didn't select the the start angle...
ray.

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

« on: December 04, 2011, 01:05:35 PM »

I do understand work g54/9, as I said zero in g54 but still has .0007" and .001" in the abs screen, I bet it's in this bloody DSPMC motion board from vital systems.
Ray.

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

« on: December 04, 2011, 12:27:28 PM »

I know what you are saying, so if you are a hobbyist does that mean you must not look at your last wizard screen when the machine is running because the axis will jump and brake the cutter.
I have an old milltronics with a 386dx and it doesn't do weird stuff like that. Could it be my vital systems motion board, i'm not too happy with that, had the time for the feed hold acc/dec changed in his software to 100ms was 850ms and when you were feeding at 40inch/min and hit the feed hold it continued on for about 3/4" before stopping, now that was dangerous.
Most industrial accidents are caused be stupidity and not the machine doing weird stuff, I have investigated many accidents and some fatal.
Ray.

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

« on: December 04, 2011, 12:05:55 AM »

So do you think that Camsoft is worth $5,000?
Ray.

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

« on: December 04, 2011, 12:01:03 AM »

So was that like way back? i watched the video tutorial and it looked pretty cool, I was a upgrade or something.
Ray.

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

« on: December 03, 2011, 11:58:15 PM »

I know the dro screen not being able to zero is a tough one to explain, but matter what I do I can't zero the screen, it always shows .0007" and .001" got me baffled.
Ray.

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

« on: December 03, 2011, 05:25:00 PM »

I think your wrong, i think there is a place for it. I not comparing it to the others, just a few common sense issues, we can all rapid the tool in tool into the table if we want to.
Ray.

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

« on: December 03, 2011, 04:23:49 PM »

I use an external motion controller DSPMC, had my share of problems with that, maybe that causes the machine to jump..
You understand where i am coming from, it would be normal to check your settings while running like you would check your offset screen.
Ray.

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

« on: December 03, 2011, 03:47:41 PM »

I understand that now but when this goes out in the real world with 15 guys using it it not going to be very safe.
You said don't look at any screens when the machine moving?  I can look at many different screen when running the program and that should be normal.
When I was running the wizard program it would be normal to go back into that wizard to double check the parameters that you have just set like, did I set the step down to .1"
I have made my living servicing CNC machine for the past 35years, if they can push the wrong button they will. PC controllers mach3 are new to me, and I know they are inexpensive but they have to safe.
There has been a lot of great help on this site and a lot of guys do it for free just for the love of it. I think it's a great system and have several customers in the aerospace industry interested and have asked me to put it through its paces.
As I said if there is a button to press it will be pressed. If a wizard is running maybe the wizard screen should be blocked from opening, I would be willing to pay for that.
Ray.