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General Mach Discussion / X0,Y0, Z touch in a screeset

« on: November 15, 2012, 07:42:55 AM »

Does anyone have a screenset that has a X0, Y0 center finder and a Z touch included. Thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: X axis/ dual motor, home reference

« on: September 20, 2012, 03:49:34 PM »

Read up a little and came up with this:

RefCombination(17)
DoButton(24)

 Works like a charm. Thanks Fellas!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: X axis/ dual motor, home reference

« on: September 20, 2012, 08:29:16 AM »

I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, but my xml's all have a .xb** extension and will not post. I am going to do some reading on this and will let you know if I run into any more snags. Thanks you guys for the help. Andy.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: X axis/ dual motor, home reference

« on: September 20, 2012, 07:37:14 AM »

I am using a parallel port, and I have B set to linear. I don't suppose I could get a crash coarse somewhere on how to modify the REF ALL script button to what you are talking about?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: X axis/ dual motor, home reference

« on: September 20, 2012, 06:25:20 AM »

Thanks Hood and Ger for the responce. I configured everything as instructed, and got some crazy results. My B axis would home itself first, hit the limit switch, and continue until it bottomed out on my leadscrew stop. The other axis (X) did nothing because the slave axis never saw the HOME signal from the B side. I looked for a simular problem in the forum, and found someone else that had the same issue. For some reason I, and the other gentleman had to flip flop the input signals to get it to work correctly. It now homes both the master and slave axis's as requested, However, is there a way I can do this without having my gantry <1"

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General Mach Discussion / Re: X axis/ dual motor, home reference

« on: September 17, 2012, 01:21:57 PM »

I do have seperate drives for each motor and I plan to use a X master, and a B slave signal to drive my X axis. I just don't know how to go about it.

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General Mach Discussion / X axis/ dual motor, home reference

« on: September 17, 2012, 10:54:36 AM »

Hello. I am in the process of building a router that uses two stepper motors to drive the X axis. I have a motor on each side of the table to drive the X axis. I would like to be able to hit the "Ref All Home" button, and have a switch on both lead screws of the X axis to stop the motors. This way I will be able to "tweak" one of the lead screws to reset the gantry angle back to 90 degrees. Currently I am using only the X axis signal to drive both motors, and if for some reason one of the motors stalls, it really screws up the position of my gantry. I'm not sure how to set up a slave signal to drive the extra motor, but am especially confused on how tie in two switches for one axis. Any ideas would be GREAT. Thank you.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: CNC Wrapper HELP!

« on: May 10, 2011, 08:52:39 PM »

I think I figured out my main problem. Under general config, I had the Rot 360 rollover checked. Before I just saw a big blue ring where the toolpath was. I noticed that in cnc wrapper, all a axis moves were from 0 to -360. My machine was set up to run from 0 to +360. I'm not sure what most of the options are or what they do in the config screen so I am reluctant to change them if they are already selected. Thank you very much for your help BR549, I'm sure I will have more questions as I go along. Andy.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: CNC Wrapper HELP!

« on: May 10, 2011, 02:20:11 PM »

Well, when I run a code that has been created, The a axis will start turning at an extremely slow rate,(4 degrees/min). I think I may have fixed this by adding a new tool in my original cam program with a feed rate of 1300 units per min. It still does odd moves like, rotates the axis several times before making any y or z moves.I also have loaded some of the sample wrapps to Mach and they look nothing like they do on the web site. It looks like a one demensional drawing that makes no sence. Any ideas? Thank you for your responces.I feel like the only kid in class that does'nt have a working 4th axis.
Andy.

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General Mach Discussion / CNC Wrapper HELP!

« on: May 10, 2011, 01:32:59 PM »

I am having a hard time believing that no one else is having this problem. I have a 4th axis on my router that works fine with the spline and gear cutting wizards in Mach. I have tried all that the help file says to do to set up the code, but when I run it, it does'nt even remotely do what it is supposed to do. I have the licenced version so that shouldn't be an issue. I have tried to contact them with these issues, but I have yet to get a responce. If someone out there has a working 4th axis set up that they would like to help me with, I would really appreciate it