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General Mach Discussion / Re: Spindle Delay DRO's

« on: November 01, 2012, 08:23:57 AM »

Thanks,
In the list I have I found 217 as well but I didn't see any of the others listed.

Richard

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General Mach Discussion / Spindle Delay DRO's

« on: November 01, 2012, 08:03:56 AM »

Are the Spindle delays in the Spindle Setup available in a variable or DRO?
I would like to retrieve the values and set them via macro.

CW Delay Spin up
CCW Delay Spin up
CW Delay Spin down
CCW Delay Spin down

Thanks,
Richard

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach + Smoothstepper and Dwell

« on: October 18, 2012, 10:33:25 AM »

I hadn't had any luck with any dwells set less than 1 second.  I also noticed, when running on PP port, my spindle stops immediately at the end of the feed down depth and with the smoothstepper there is a delay so my tap extends much more than normal.  I guess this is due to the usb delays or the way the SS works. I know my VFD stops on a dime and reverses quickly, but when running G-Code it seems there is a delay between machine motion and the spindle.

Maybe I can put a slight underfeed in my Feed coming back up so the tapholder isn't stretched out so far when it comes out of the hole.

Richard

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General Mach Discussion / Mach + Smoothstepper and Dwell

« on: October 18, 2012, 09:46:01 AM »

I know that Dwell in milliseconds hadn't worked with the smoothstepper in some time.  I'm not sure it ever got fixed.

My question is, if Mach & Smooth stepper only supports Dwell in Seconds, then will fractions of a second not work?

G4 P0.5   This seems to be totally ignored and 1 second is way too long.

I'm doing tapping routines and I'm trying to fine tune the Dwell between the M4 and backing out of the hole. Anyone know a way around this?

(Mach 3.43.53)

Thanks,
Richard

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Video P*r*o*b*i*n*g / Re: cnc4pc.com touch probe! Anyone?!

« on: August 07, 2012, 12:06:18 AM »

Just wondering how the touch probe is doing.  I've been looking at it for awhile now.
I see that Arnie's site is no longer around as well.

Richard

Received my tough probe. attempting to get it to work but the green digitizing light in mach 3 is stuck on. i have the port and pin right, but its simply not responding. Also the red led isn't lighting up when triggered.
I have it hooked to a c48 probe board from cnc4pc.com

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: SS does not back off of home switch

« on: January 19, 2012, 12:55:58 PM »

Sorry, I already had tried that and as well as 2.8

Richard

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SmoothStepper USB / SS does not back off of home switch

« on: January 19, 2012, 10:11:52 AM »

I have a smoothstepper and homing is working fine for XYZ Axis but on my C Axis, after it homes, it backs off just a tad and leaves the home switch acivated.
I can watch the Home LED and when it backs off the C I never see the LED go off.  C is a large rotary axis so it takes numerous steps to back off.
BTW, It's an optical interruptor switch H21A1.

Is there a fix for this other than me editing each and everyone of my Home Button Scripts for all my screens?

Richard

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: VB Help

« on: January 18, 2012, 12:45:40 AM »

I solved item 2.  I'm just curious about Item 1, it just looks messy adding that after messages.

I guess normally I would not be posting very many messages to the log and message bar once I have everything the way I want it.  Right now it comes in handy testing macros and debugging.

Richard

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VB and the development of wizards / VB Help

« on: January 17, 2012, 11:09:30 PM »

Hello All.  It's been many years since I played with basic and I'm doing pretty good on some complex macros however I have two items I need to ask about.

1)  It seems the only way I can get messages to post to the message line and the errorlog is to make sure there is Code "something" afterwards.

Message("Send Test 1")
Code "G4 P0.5"
While IsMoving(0
  Sleep(10)
Wend

Any code will work, it doesn't have to be dwell.  But If I do not put code in there but just a sleep(10) or the While IsMoving() I stand a 50/50 chance the message will post.



2) Compound Booleans Test

If (RED=1 AND BLUE=1) OR
   (RED = 0 And Green = 1) Then
      do something
End If


Can multiple Boolean Tests be performed like this without using a lot of If Then Else and duplicating code?

Richard

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Machscreen Screen Designer / Re: DRO Question

« on: January 16, 2012, 11:20:51 PM »

Thanks Ger21, Your a Pro at this.

Richard