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General Mach Discussion / Re: Precise jogging and speed help

« on: July 10, 2022, 05:19:26 PM »

And do you have the jogging tab open whilst trying to use the mdi?  If so try closing it.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Precise jogging and speed help

« on: July 10, 2022, 07:40:16 AM »

It's the one you press for a "carriage return", usually a bit bigger with a left arrow and on the right of the KB.  If you have a separate keyboard with numeric pad there is often an "enter" key with that but in my experience, if you type anything into a box such as a numeric value or text, the enter key does nothing, you have to use return.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Precise jogging and speed help

« on: July 10, 2022, 06:49:16 AM »

By the way, depending on your keyboard, "enter" may not work, I always use "return" in Mach3.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Precise jogging and speed help

« on: July 10, 2022, 06:48:12 AM »

And you should not use quotes...

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: scan problem

« on: July 09, 2022, 08:01:30 AM »

Try omitting the quotes in the formatting statement

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Precise jogging and speed help

« on: July 09, 2022, 03:25:58 AM »

Sorry the <return> should be after typing the command into the window.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Precise jogging and speed help

« on: July 09, 2022, 02:05:27 AM »

To move to a specific location you need to use the MDI tab.  Just above the Reset button there is a long window labelled Input.  If you type say G0 X10 Y10 Z10 in that the machine moves to the coordinates (10,10,10)<return>. If you wanted to move 10mm in each direction from where you are now then first type G91<return> then type theG0 command.  If you only want to move in one coordinate then the others are not needed.

There is a way to change the increment jog speed but I can't remember what it is.  Read the manual.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Probe Wiring

« on: July 09, 2022, 01:49:27 AM »

"Code" is a defined command in the visual basic assembler, "code" is just a word.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Probe Wiring

« on: July 08, 2022, 08:05:17 AM »

try writing "Code" rather than "code" in the last line.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Probe Wiring

« on: July 07, 2022, 03:36:47 PM »

The G31 Z-3 F20 is a probing move, causing the tool to go down a MAXIMUM of 3", but it should stop when the probe is triggered.  Only if the probe input is not triggered will it move the full 3".  It sounds like your probe (digitize) input isn't being registered.  You can make a probing move from the MDI without writing a macro, just type in
G31 Z-3 F20 and check that grounding the touch plate stops it.