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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Re: Touch off

« on: September 09, 2010, 09:00:44 PM »

Alan,
I inquired about this issue with the guys at Newfangled - they asked that I have you contact them directly.
Please email Scott (scottn@machsupport.com), tell him that you are the fellow I talked to them about re the axis scaling flipping.

Dave

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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Re: Touch off

« on: September 07, 2010, 11:01:26 PM »

Hi Alan,
Sorry if this seems a bit rushed, I'm traveling the rest of this week.

Issue 1 (MT touch off):
From my tired brain's memory, if you have MT mode on, then the only tool that can be used to set Z zero is the MT. The T# of the MT is set on the tooling page, master tool mode options. The message "Can't set Z0 in master mode w/o master tool" tells me MT mode is on, but the MT T# is not mounted at the time the button is clicked.
I did modify the code in beta 9 for touch plates - perhaps something happened....
please make the problem happen and then get the probing log file and email it to me to look at.
(C:\mach3\MachStdMill\Logs\MSMProbingDebugLog.txt)

Issue 2 (scaling DROs):
The DROs i think you are you referring to are the scale factor DROs for each axis. The LED next to them turns on whenever the scale factor is not equal 1 (i.e. the axis is being scaled).
If an axis DRO value is -1, that indicates that the axis is being reversed + for -
I can't think of any way MSM could change those DRO values on it's own. They are just Mach's DROs.

Electrical noise seems an unlikely candidate to change a DRO value. A input signal bit yes, but not a DRO value.

When the scale is -1, is the axis motion in fact reversed from "normal" for your machine?
Do you have any G-Ccode doing G51? That is how scaling factors get set via G-Code.

Dave

 

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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Re: Mach3 General Config.

« on: September 06, 2010, 10:33:13 AM »

Hi,
Current MSM versions should work with any combo of config settings.
The alpha versions had some config setting requirements before Brian added some interfaces so MSM could query some settings.
The beta versions initially had the same instructions to make initial user configurations common so that support would be easier.
The specific config requirements were then dropped - now MSM should work with any config settings combo.

Dave

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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Re: Feedrate with SS and MSM problem

« on: September 06, 2010, 10:25:35 AM »

Iragan,
Are you using a PP or a SS?

Dave

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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Re: Feedrate with SS and MSM problem

« on: September 03, 2010, 10:50:59 PM »

Hum,
I don't have an idea off the top of my head - I'll think about it a bit.
Feed rates are processed by Mach and so nothing immediately comes to mind that would impact this in MSM.

I'll ask Brian if anything else was changed in 3.43.19 that might be impacting this.

Dave

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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Re: Calibrate spindle

« on: August 29, 2010, 04:23:31 PM »

Finding the "correct place" to report mach stuff is always a bit "interesting" as there isn't a formal reporting process (as far as I know).

For something that is a straight mach dev release issue, I often find that the yahoo list is more effective that the web forums (just because I know Brain reads the yahoo list more than he prowls the web forums).

I'll also put his on a list of thing to mention when I next talk to him.

Dave

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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Re: Calibrate spindle

« on: August 29, 2010, 11:56:37 AM »

Alan,
As the spindle calibration stuff is all inside Mach, I don't have much info to offer you for this one.
(Spindle calibration is not part of MSM, which has no knowledge that this concept even exists).

I would like to confirm if "last generation of Mach (pre MSM)" means Mach 3.42.40 ?

Dave

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CVI MachStdMill (MSM) / Probing and SS - update

« on: August 28, 2010, 05:13:27 PM »

Hi,
When I announced beta 6, I had thought that the issues in mach re probing and SS were fixed up.
I guess i jumped the gun a bit, so I'm letting people know that the mach issues with Probing and SSs are not yet all resolved.

As of Mach 3.43.19, probing with a SS can still result in bad movements and hence possible crunched probe tips.
 
I'll provide an update when I hear more.

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: VB Code On A Button Help Required

« on: August 28, 2010, 12:37:10 PM »

Phil,

That's odd - below is a literal paste of a code fragment I just ran in mach to check -

Code: [Select]

Option Explicit
Dim X_Distance As Double

' entry point from mach
X_Distance = GetUserDRO (2011)

Code "G04 P.25"

MsgBox "hit OK to do " & Chr(13) &  "G01 X" & GCN(X_Distance)

Code "G01 X" & GCN(X_Distance)
Exit Sub


Function GCN(ByVal VBNum) As String
' GCodeNumber: a small util to take a VB double, format it and return it as a string
' this is needed so that all numbers ptu into strings that will be sent to CodeQ or CodeQW will not
' have things of the form: X0.123456e-9   - which is not legal gcode format
GCN = Format(VBNum, "#########0.00")
End Function ' GCN


Only difference was that I changed the format string to have only 2 digits to right of decimal as you requested.
I also added a debug msgbox just to see the string - looks fine, causes mach movement when the G01 is issued.

Note that I always use "option explicit" - that forces all variables to be declared before use.
This saves me from a typo creating a new variable of type variant on the fly. This should not make a difference to the code though.


Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Announcement: MachStdMill beta release is available for download

« on: August 27, 2010, 04:42:24 PM »

Hi,
I forgot to update this thread at the beginning of this week.
The Current MSM beta release is v0.3.8 (Beta 9) and requires Mach 3.43.19.

Info is here:
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,15420.0.html

Dave