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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: SoftMin Error

« on: July 11, 2021, 06:19:08 PM »

Have you homed your machine? Your machine needs to know where it is so it can implement soft limits correctly.
Steve

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Pierce Height in Mach4

« on: July 06, 2021, 04:32:44 PM »

No worries - that might be the "Warp Runner" I have heard about. It has the same height control functions as the the TMC3in1 with some extra leds for diagnosing faults.
Steve

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Pierce Height in Mach4

« on: June 24, 2021, 03:55:09 PM »

While you are waiting - you could watch these - some very good info here although some of it won't make sense until you start cutting .

https://arclightcnc.com/sheetcam-tutorials/

Steve

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Pierce Height in Mach4

« on: June 24, 2021, 03:53:12 PM »

I will be happy to when it gets there.
Steve

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: advice please re. mach4 version

« on: June 21, 2021, 08:28:56 PM »

Hi Stuart
I did the update to get the latest TMC3in1 plasma plugin, I didn't do any tests but run a few jobs to confirm it worked. Which it did fine.
Steve

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Pierce Height in Mach4

« on: June 20, 2021, 06:22:33 PM »

Steve
I can highly recommend the TMC3in1 THC. It works great. The secret with THC is when not to use it such as crossing cut lines, the start and finish of cuts and when accelerating and slowing down from corners and the TMC3in1 handles all that with cut rules and the setup in the plugin. If you can get one of them it plugs directly into the ESS and communicates at high speed with the ESS. I can help a lot with the post processor for that as well.
Steve

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: advice please re. mach4 version

« on: June 20, 2021, 05:14:16 PM »

Hi Stuart
I did two jobs yesterday with 4720 and it worked great for me.
Steve

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Pierce Height in Mach4

« on: June 19, 2021, 05:49:09 PM »

Hi Steve
Some progress - that's good, the torch won't continue to fire unless it's cutting metal don't worry about that. Now you have to torch relay working and if you have the stop after probing again try moving to the versions of Mach 4 and ESS plug in that I spoke of before.
Steve

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Pierce Height in Mach4

« on: June 17, 2021, 07:41:53 PM »

Hi Steve

Yes it can be very frustrating but just take one step at a time.

You don't want to use M03 or M05 to control your torch - they are not co-ordinated with your torch movements. Use M62 and M63 as your torch needs to start and stop at precise points times during movement - this is one of the differences between Mach 3 and Mach 4.

Re the wire from your Torch Relay to the Breakout Board - the Pin you have connected it to needs to be set in your outputs in the ESS plug so Mach knows what to do when you command a M62 or M63.

I wish I was around the corner from you - all this would only take an hour or so to sort out if I could see what was happening directly.

Steve

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Pierce Height in Mach4

« on: June 17, 2021, 03:37:24 PM »

Excellent plasma cutter - you won't have any issues with that.
Good news that your probing works.

Once you have all the functions working how they should we can go further - the torch not firing and no arc OK signal can cause the pauses you were speaking of.

Steve