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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Add Existing Panel

« on: December 12, 2010, 06:20:02 PM »

Lets say I have a screenset that has a bunch of panels in it, then I design a new screenset.  Is there a way I can take one panel from screenset A and add it to screenset B.  The screen I want to move is fairly complex with lots of VB code and lots of buttons. 

Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Weird PC Freezing Issue

« on: December 12, 2010, 06:15:46 PM »

I've had Mach installed on 5 different PC's running plasma tables, mills and routers...and on all of then, anything over 35KHz locked up the PC.  The driver test always showed a smooth line.  Sometimes it would lock up right when Mach loaded and sometimes it would wait a few minutes, but it always locked up within a few minutes of starting mach.  No problems at all running at 25 or 35KHz.  I always run at 25KHz just to be on the safe side.

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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Re: Add/Remove Screens in Screen4

« on: December 09, 2010, 12:55:18 PM »

Thanks Gerry.  Is there a VB function to bring up a custom screen where you can specify the screen number?  I see OEM functions that open specific panels like, diags, settings, MDI, etc, but nothing to open a custom panel.

Edit:  I may have answered my own question.  I see that OEM codes 1-7 are for Mach screens but I also see that the next code used is 100.  I'm guessing that OEM codes 1 - 99 are reserved for screens so a button using OEM code 50 would open screen #50.  Is this correct?

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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Add/Remove Screens in Screen4

« on: December 09, 2010, 09:33:32 AM »

I'm probably overlooking something very simple, but I can't seem to figure out how to add and remove screens from a screenset in screen4.  I want to add a couple of custom screens and remove a couple of the standard screens that come in the standard Mill profile.  If I select file>new from the menu, it wants to start a new screenset, not just add another screen to the current screenset.  Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 2D files

« on: December 08, 2010, 03:18:07 PM »

For 2/2.5D, you can't beat SheetCam.  Vectric Cut 2D is similar, but it does not do lead in/out, which makes it pretty useless other than for maybe a hobbyist.  Never could understand why they omitted that feature.

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Feature Requests / Re: Rotational offset on Z plane

« on: December 07, 2010, 10:45:19 PM »

Hmmm...If I rotate the part with X0Y0 it works fine.  If I rotate using a X or Y value to keep the origin at the lower left of the part, I get errors.

If I rotate 90 degrees around X0Y0 the part origin shifts to the lower right.  Is there another offset command I could use after the G58 to correct that?

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Feature Requests / Re: Rotational offset on Z plane

« on: December 07, 2010, 08:52:13 PM »

What version of mach are you running?

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Feature Requests / Re: Rotational offset on Z plane

« on: December 07, 2010, 04:03:53 PM »

I agree.  It looks as if it's in absolute IJ mode when it should be incremental.  That's not it though.  The G58 causes what you see in the second image and a G59 returns it back to normal.  Here's the code.  On line 40 I'm not sure what the G53 and G90 are doing, but that line is the same in every program I've run for the last year.  The M7 turns on an output (downdraft blower) and the M1100 toggles the THC on.

N0000 (Filename: rounded rectangle NO CW LL.tap)
N0010 (Post processor: THC300.scpost)
N0020 (Date: 02/10/2010)
N0030 G20 (Units: Inches)
N0040 G53 G90 G40 M7 M1100
N0050 F1
N0060 (Part: rounded rectangle NO)
N0070 (Operation: No Offset, DEFAULT, T1: Plasma, 0.05 in kerf, 120IPM)
N0080 M06 T1  (Plasma, 0.05 in kerf, 120IPM)
N0090 G00 Z0.3750
N0100 G00 X0.2500 Y0.0000
N0110 (Operation: Reference Torch)
N0120 F15
N0130 G31 Z-1
N0140 G92 Z-0.1452
N0150 G00 Z0.2000
N0160 M03
N0170 G04 P0.5
N0180 G01 Z0.1000 F30
N0190 G02 X0.0000 Y0.2500 I0.0000 J0.2500 F120.0
N0200 G01 Y1.7500 F120
N0210 G02 X0.2500 Y2.0000 I0.2500 J0.0000 F120.0
N0220 G01 X2.7500 F120
N0230 G02 X3.0000 Y1.7500 I0.0000 J-0.2500 F120.0
N0240 G01 Y0.2500 F120
N0250 G02 X2.7500 Y0.0000 I-0.2500 J-0.0000 F120.0
N0260 G01 X0.2500 F120
N0270 M05
N0280 G00 Z0.3750
N0290 G00 X0 Y0
N0300 M30

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Scale X-1 Problem

« on: December 07, 2010, 10:01:47 AM »

Aaaaargh, same happens when the Y axis is used too!!

Mike

Is that a Flash screen?  I have to agree.  It's one the nicest Mach screens I've seen.  I like the tabbed panel.  It really cleans things up.

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Feature Requests / Re: Rotational offset on Z plane

« on: December 07, 2010, 09:56:03 AM »

This is what I'm seeing in the tool path display.  The first is a shot of the original and the second is after executing a G68.  This is on version R3.042.036.