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Mach4 General Discussion / Mach4 Simple Auto z touch

« on: August 12, 2020, 05:06:02 AM »

I'm looking for a simple procedure to Auto zero my Z axis when an M6 tool change is executed.

My mach3 setup had an extra button on the screen for this.

Thanks

George

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: PWM and Mach4 Hobby setup

« on: August 06, 2020, 02:26:55 PM »

All set up now and the Machine seems to be responding. Any chance of a sample piece of code/file.

Thanks

George

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: PWM and Mach4 Hobby setup

« on: August 06, 2020, 11:00:16 AM »

OK!

That's good advice.

Thanks

George

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: PWM and Mach4 Hobby setup

« on: August 06, 2020, 09:22:50 AM »

Your image looks great Tweakie, So here's what I will do, I read the article on setting up the laser settings in the ESS. Looks fairly straight forward so I will do that today. I'l l then add your PP. I shall purchase Aspires add on for creating laser work, images cutouts etc and try it.

It is my feeling that Aspire have written pp's for direct download to half a dozen different machines, bespoke machines are not supported, this I understand. I cannot see why it wont work going through a Mach4 PP such as yours.

It looks to be very good piece of software so I'll try it. For the sake of 40 quid, well.....

Regards

George

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: PWM and Mach4 Hobby setup

« on: August 06, 2020, 07:15:44 AM »

CV Did it, thanks

I looked at the demo for Aspires Laser add on. If I use that do you think the files produced along with your PP run OK with Mach 4 ??

Cheers

George

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: PWM and Mach4 Hobby setup

« on: August 05, 2020, 05:02:47 PM »

Hi Tweakie, I used your PP with Aspire, I drew a square sent it to Mach 4 and this is what it did. Seems it don't like corners. Most odd!!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: PWM and Mach4 Hobby setup

« on: August 05, 2020, 12:03:00 PM »

So Tweakie, If I purchase Aspires Laser Add ON can I then use you PP to generate the Gcode ?

Hi George,

If it's any help, the Vectric pp that I use is here;  https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=36640.0

Tweakie.

Hi George,

If it's any help, the Vectric pp that I use is here;  https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=36640.0

Tweakie.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: PWM and Mach4 Hobby setup

« on: August 05, 2020, 11:29:26 AM »

Thank you Tweakie.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: PWM and Mach4 Hobby setup

« on: August 05, 2020, 07:40:30 AM »

Thanks Tweakie, I expect the Red Lion is still closed, hope you are keeping safe. Maybe one day I would like to come and see you.

I'll look at the link meanwhile Aspire posted this....  So I'm not sure if there PP will work with Mach4, Onwards and upwards.

Initially we aim to support the following machine tools (and controllers) using the most common commercially available solid-state laser diode modification kits.

X-Carve (GRBL)
Shapeoko (GRBL)
Ooznest (Duet2)
Digital Wood Carver (PlanetCNC controller)
Nextwave CNC - Nextwave Laser Controller
OpenBuilds (GRBL)
Stepcraft (UCCNC)
Please see the FAQ below for full details of our tested & supported configurations. We will be adding other machines and controllers to this supported list over time.

Other similar machines or controllers *may* work, our version 10.5 trial editions allow you to test your machine configuration before you purchase. Please note, however, that we are unable to provide support for other configurations at this time.

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Mach4 General Discussion / PWM and Mach4 Hobby setup

« on: August 05, 2020, 06:13:28 AM »

Moderator, please move this if in the wrong area. Thanks.


Finally my new machine is up and running and to prove it to myself I cut and engraved a new house name sign for my neighbor. But moving on......

Hopefully I can get some help here
I have Endurance 10W+ Laser and running Aspire 10.5 with a Warp9 ESS Smooth Stepper a C11 Rev8 BOB (All 5 inputs are used with limits and homing switches) so I have a C10 plugged directly into the Smooth stepper.

I could use some help in getting the laser setup with PWM in Mach4 Hobby. Specifically which boxes should be ticked in both the mach 4 settings and the ESS settings.

Vectric are selling a Laser post processor add on, does anyone know if this works with Endurance lasers and Mach4 Hobby.

Thanks

George