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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 doing wierd things

« on: September 08, 2010, 04:15:41 PM »

I cut two parts flawlessly. I just started the next part and on the 4th toolpath, a pocketing operation,  I noticed that the depth didn't seem correct. I went to look and see what was happening when I saw the machine return to make another pass and then.... I saw the machine travel in the x direction, stop, pause, the DRO on the x axis changed and the tool position is off. Here we go again!

Everything was working great. I did notice that there were a few differences between my previous Mach and the new install. One thing is the ATZ actually follows the code, before the tool height we be some random height about the material, now it is always 1.000. Also it seems like when you push Cycle Start the machine moves and then pauses (I have a 7 second delay), before I think it paused then moved. Oh well, I still need to get this sorted out. The parts I'm running now have about a 3 1/2 hour cycle time. I can't be having problems with these.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 doing wierd things

« on: September 08, 2010, 11:48:32 AM »

I sure hope so, I'm running the last part now and will start running the next one in about two hours.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 doing wierd things

« on: September 08, 2010, 10:44:14 AM »

Well I did check, but I assumed that it was the correct address. After double and triple checking everything else I looked at it again and realized it was wrong! I did manage to cut one part last night correctly. I used the ATZ feature and everything appeared to be working correctly. I have one more part out of this run to cut. I will then start on a different run and we'll have to see what happens. Thanks again for everything, I would have never been able to get this worked out. Ron

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 doing wierd things

« on: September 07, 2010, 07:47:52 PM »

Sure helps if you assign the right parallel port address!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 doing wierd things

« on: September 07, 2010, 06:08:37 PM »

I don't really know, I guess anything is possible. I reinstalled Mach and now I can't get my drives to move. I thought I copied everything down correctly, but I must be missing something somewhere. I have to run out to a meeting, when I get back I will try to look and see where I made my mistake.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 doing wierd things

« on: September 07, 2010, 05:45:14 PM »

Well here goes. Thanks for all of your help. I imagine by the time I get finished and run another part you will be asleep. I'll get back to you and let you know my progree. Thanks again, Ron

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 doing wierd things

« on: September 07, 2010, 05:25:56 PM »

That is the macro for the ATZ remote button, I don't see anything to do with X,Y axis.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 doing wierd things

« on: September 07, 2010, 05:20:15 PM »

I used to have a remote button that was used for the ATZ feature. I since turned off the brain and I use the button onscreen. I was having trouble were the ATZ would not get the true zero. Maybe I should eliminate this, but I don't see how it can change the X,Y origin.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 doing wierd things

« on: September 07, 2010, 05:11:08 PM »

Here you go

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 doing wierd things

« on: September 07, 2010, 04:58:24 PM »

I Think that was for the previous BOB that I was using. I am manually starting the spindle, I can change this if you think this is a problem. Although it has been set this way for almost a year.