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General Mach Discussion / Re: changing zero position

« on: October 08, 2023, 02:17:14 PM »

Couple things.

How you hold your cutter can make that happen. If the cutter is cutting too aggressively it can be pulled out of the collet, chuck, or what ever you are using to hold it.

Could there be something going on that would be causing you to lose steps? I once had the opposite problem and realized that everytime I would go in for a cut the machine would bottom out and lose steps. Couldnt cut deep enough. Make sure your not hitting anything going up. Also make sure you are not trying to move too fast going up and lose steps.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Keyboard enabled on startup?

« on: September 18, 2023, 08:58:35 PM »

From the amount of replies I'm guessing it's not possible to enable jogging on startup.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Keyboard enabled on startup?

« on: September 16, 2023, 09:35:09 AM »

i have been trying for a few weeks now to get jogging enabled when Mach4 starts up. I have edited, remmed out, remmed in almost everything i have seen and read on the internet. Nothing seems to work but here's the wierd thing. In my lathe profile it works just fine. In my mill profile it does not. The button toggles and goes green but the arrow keys will not jog the machine. Clicking the enable button disables. Clicking again enables and the machine moves on arrow key presses.

Here is what I have right now.
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--  PLC First Run
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if (testcount == 1) then --Set Keyboard input startup state
    --local iReg = mc.mcIoGetHandle (inst, "Keyboard/Enable")
    --mc.mcIoSetState(iReg, 1) --Set register to 1 to ensure KeyboardInputsToggle function will do a disable.
    KeyboardInputsToggle()
   
Here is something I noticed.

Load Mach4 - Click Enable - no DRO movement with arrow buttons - Click disable - click operator - click edit screen - click edit screen again to uncheck - screen loads and arrow buttons will move DRO's

So what is different from Mach4 loading new and Mach4 loading after edits? Is there something more going on after a screen edit that is making the keyboard work that doesn't happen when starting up Mach4?

Has anybody successfully made Mach4 jog on startup in a mill profile? If so, how did you do it? What am I missing?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cannot do g1 with zero feed rate, Block=G1 X0 Y0 Z0.5

« on: September 10, 2023, 09:46:03 PM »

Change it to...

G1 X0 Y0 Z0.5 F10

Any time you use G1 after that it will move at 10 inches or millimeters per minute. If after that you want to move at a different speed just do another F#

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Machj 3 Turn Tool Offset Questions

« on: September 09, 2023, 04:41:22 PM »

Sorry but I am a manual tool change guy. Put I'm tool, touch off surface, type in height, press cycle start. All that fancy tool changer stuff is above my pay grade.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: ScreenScript file keeps getting overwritten on update.

« on: September 09, 2023, 01:14:01 PM »

I would think I'm good now. It's a different folder with a different screen file with a different name. What could possibly go wrong?

And for anybody reading this on this fine Saturday, don't forget it's National Beer & Pizza day.  Your welcome.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: ScreenScript file keeps getting overwritten on update.

« on: September 09, 2023, 08:03:56 AM »

Ok I figured out how to do all this. I renamed a copy of wx4 in the profile folder and loaded it. Now I can do the two profiles in the shop and wait for the next update.

How likely is it that the screen load file or screen set changed with an update? Is that something I'll have to keep an eye on and copy and paste changes into my screen?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: ScreenScript file keeps getting overwritten on update.

« on: September 09, 2023, 07:42:19 AM »

That sounds reasonable to me. I will give that a go and see what happens. Thank you!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: ScreenScript file keeps getting overwritten on update.

« on: September 08, 2023, 08:25:25 PM »

The Mach4mill profile was copied and Huck-o-matic was created and Mach4lathe was copied and Lathe-o-matic was created. So the profiles have unique names. I checked my shortcuts to be sure that those are the profiles that are being  loaded. I was wondering if that was a mistake and I should have created a new blank profile and built it from the ground up. It seems like the Huck-o-matic profile is using the Mach4mill screenscript file.

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Mach4 General Discussion / ScreenScript file keeps getting overwritten on update.

« on: September 08, 2023, 05:28:58 PM »

Like the title says when I update Mach4 to a newer version I have to edit the Screenscript file to get my cycle start button to work again because it is overwritten. When I created the mill and lathe profiles I copied profiles instead of creating new ones. Should I have created new? Is there a way to prevent the file from being overwritten on an update?