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HiCON Motion Controller / Liener scale Feedback

« on: September 24, 2018, 11:14:28 PM »

I have an Enco 10x54 Mill and have 4 Mitsubishi servo motors and drives  (HF-KE73KW1-s100). I am very interested in Closed Loop using Linear scales. Is it possible to use the linear scales as the feed back? Does it matter which linear scale you use; Optical or Magnetic ? etc. Please explain how to set it up. I am planning to purchasing the 7766 stepper, 7737 and the pendent. What else will we need? 

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: gcode to dxf converter

« on: January 26, 2014, 09:33:01 PM »

Thanks, I got it - its exactly what I need.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: gcode to dxf converter

« on: January 26, 2014, 09:10:41 PM »

I noticed CNCzone had a Gcode to DXF file converter (http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8814) - I went to their site and it is not posted any longer. Does anyone have a copy of it? My laser cutter will only use DXF files. I am trying to convert my mill code to run on the laser cutter. Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to use Relays on the 106 I/O board

« on: November 04, 2009, 11:36:46 PM »

Hi Hood,

I used the DeActivateSignal (OutPut4) command it works fine. After a little messing around I got all the relays working properly. I wrote a seperate macro for on and off for all 8 relays. I buzzed it out today it worked great.

I did notice in the documentation for the 106 I/O board the the relay numbers are not in order 2.3.4 etc it is 2.3.5. etc I kept trying different pins until I got each relay to work properly. I check the Port Pins Outputs and pin assignments and they were correct. The doc just lists them wrong.

Thanks for your help,

Boots-2b1

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to use Relays on the 106 I/O board

« on: November 04, 2009, 12:59:15 AM »

Hi Hood,

Yes thank you, the macro worked fine. Now I can turn them on but how do I turn them off? I tried M9 and it does not work?? Also where can I learn the syntex for the macro language?

Thanks for your help, Boots-2b1

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to use Relays on the 106 I/O board

« on: November 02, 2009, 10:43:56 PM »

Hi Hood,
I have Cool Air, Mist, Flood, Light, Hold downs controlled by two relays etc. On my other system CNC4 I issued a M94 code in my g-code to close my relays. Example: if the light was connected to Relay 4 In my code I would issue a M94/4 and it would turn on the light. Mach3 does not support the command M94 - so what command do I was to close relays 4-9? I am a electronics engineer, the relays are wired correctly.

Boots-2b1

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General Mach Discussion / How to use Relays on the 106 I/O board

« on: November 01, 2009, 12:40:08 PM »

How do I control relays example:

M7 turns on Relay 2

How do you control Relay 3 through 8?

On my old Centroid machine M94/4 turned on Relay 4. Mach3 does not use M94 commands.

Also How do I assign the relay on command to the user buttons?

Thanks for your time, Boots-2b1