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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Jog Step Mode Problem?

« on: July 07, 2016, 03:47:13 PM »

When a motion completes, Mach4 will report the actual final location based on
information from the plug-in and control device. The actual motion will be an
exact multiple of the step or encoder increment that is physically possible. If
the requested location is not an exact multiple of the step or encoder increment,
then the final location will not exactly match the requested location, and the
true location will be reported.

Steve Stallings
www.PMDX.com

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Promote and discuss your product / PMDX-416 SmartBOB-OptoUSB announce

« on: July 06, 2016, 11:26:00 AM »

The new PMDX-416 SmartBOB-OptoUSB motion controller for Mach4 is now shipping.



For details see: http://www.pmdx.com/PMDX-416

This new controller offers a simple, low cost way to create a Mach4
machine controller.

It is the slightly bigger brother to the just announced PMDX-412 and
adds the following additional features:

Opto-isolation of the input signals.

Support for an encoder to allow an MPG, spindle speed reporting, or
lathe threading (in a future plugin release).

One 10 ampere SPDT relay.

It also shares the following features with the PMDX-412:

It provides the controller, pulse engine, breakout board, and plug-in terminal
strips. External breakout boards or terminal strips are not needed.

Powered from the USB port, no external power supply is needed.

It can self mount directly to the wall of your control enclosure and includes
a dress panel for the outside of the enclosure.

The I/O available is equivalent to one parallel port and includes 4 axis step
and direction outputs, 4 logic level output signals, and 5 input signals including
the E-Stop function.

The output signals can be used with our PMDX-104 relay board or with
solid state relays.

The inputs accept mechanical switches, NPN sensors, or 5 volt logic signals.

PNP sensors can be used by adding our PMDX-105 board.

VFD spindle inverters can be controlled by adding our PMDX-407 board.

Stay tuned for more SmartBOB products in the future.

Steve Stallings
www.PMDX.com

363

Promote and discuss your product / PMDX-412 SmartBOB-MiniUSB announce

« on: June 24, 2016, 07:53:14 PM »

The new PMDX-412 SmartBOB-MiniUSB motion controller for Mach4 is now shipping.



For details see: http://www.pmdx.com/PMDX-412

This new controller offers the simplest, lowest cost way to create a Mach4
machine controller.

It provides the controller, pulse engine, breakout board, and plug-in terminal
strips. External breakout boards or terminal strips are not needed.

It can self mount directly to the wall of your control enclosure and includes
a dress panel for the outside of the enclosure.

The I/O available is equivalent to one parallel port and includes 4 axis step
and direction outputs, 4 logic level output signals, and 5 input signals including
the E-Stop function.

The output signals can be used with our PMDX-104 relay board or with
solid state relays.

The inputs accept mechanical switches, NPN sensors, or 5 volt logic signals.

PNP sensors can be used by adding our PMDX-105 board.

VFD spindle inverters can be controlled by adding our PMDX-407 board.

Stay tuned for more SmartBOB products in the future.

Steve Stallings
www.PMDX.com

364

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Save Profile

« on: June 24, 2016, 11:06:40 AM »

There is a function in Mach4 to capture all the configuration information into a
single file. It can be found at:

HELP > Support > Package Current Profile

This will produce a file with the current profile name and an extension of m4prof.

You will be offerd a choice of where to save this file. It is actually a zip file and if
you change the extension you can open it in a zip viewer to see what is in it
if you desire.

To restore it on a new system, first install Mach4, then use the Mach4Loader
to import the profile using the button at the bottom right of the loader window.

Steve Stallings
PMDX

365

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Rookie question about mach4

« on: June 18, 2016, 09:32:34 PM »

The motion control board must have a plug-in that supports Mach4.

Which control board do you have?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Turn UC100 questions

« on: June 17, 2016, 04:51:35 PM »

A new build/release of Mach4 with much better lathe support is expected shortly. It was
shown at the CNC Workshop. It includes Wizard like support for lathe roughing and canned
cycles and also a true lathe mode screen set.

367

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: How do I do this?

« on: May 26, 2016, 10:24:34 AM »

This looks like code that uses Fanuc Macro B language and that is only supported in the Industrial version of Mach4.

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General Mach Discussion / CNC Workshop registration discounted, June 8th in Detroit area.

« on: May 21, 2016, 08:30:07 PM »

The Workshop will run from Wednesday June the 8th until Saturday
the 11th of June at the facilities of Tech Shop in Allen Park, MI.

http://www.thecncworkshop.com/index.html

The cost of registration has been reduced to $100 for the full event.

http://techshop.ws/class_signup.html?a=1&i=168252831

There is an expanded schedule of useful seminars and there are more
vendors coming this year. Also hoping for more hobby (non-vendor)
exhibitors this year.

http://www.thecncworkshop.com/classes.html

Saturday only access is free including an indoor swap meet. There
are no seminars on Saturday, but the vendors will be on hand.

See you there.

Steve Stallings
www.PMDX.com

369

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 - Where to find Customization Manual?

« on: May 18, 2016, 04:18:17 PM »

I am fairly sure that the manuals on that page are all that there is.

It would be nice to have a general overview of how the internals work and
how to access internal registers. Someone did a list of registers once, but
it is probably out of date now.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 - Where to find Customization Manual?

« on: May 18, 2016, 03:44:15 PM »

http://www.machsupport.com/help-learning/product-manuals/