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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Screen Set Ideas

« on: May 25, 2014, 06:32:55 AM »

  WHAT? Your the Screenset salesman you should be showing us how to do all this.  

I've posted many snippets of code, ideas to inspire and show, it is not that difficult.
Is my screen set sale-able like yours? or you just looking for someone else to do the work?

Sorry Gerry your the last guy I would have thought, to ask that.
If you wanted to trade code you could have PM'd me.  

Don't get me wrong there is a long time between now, and production ready for mach4
I'm  just taking this opportunity to get a jump on Lua programming and creating a few
screens features that would work for several applications and ideas I have in the works.

The code that Scott has written is fantastic for making it easier to address some of the tedious details.
Nick has provided some inspiring code snippets that drove me down a new adventure.
TP has poked a stick at the bear, and gotten me more involved with the probing scripts.
Illya modbus screen was an eye opener to the Modbus interface.
I'd never worked on modbus before but attempted it and now from that understand more
and found how easy it was to Write and Read to the Registers giving me a new tool to
share information to my MPG Wizzard for example.

Brian and Steve have provided us a whole new platform. New revisions and upgrades to Mach4 are now happening
I might find that my code wont work with the new LUA 5.2 and wxWidgets 3.0  
Just discovered this last week the Lua call stack and how vast and informative it can be.
I'm a bruised up kid in a ice cream shop with a big spoon.
Give me more!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Screen Set Ideas

« on: May 24, 2014, 11:17:09 PM »

Added a tool change button, enter in new tool, press button, follow screen history messages to complete for manual tool change.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Creating a Probe File

« on: May 22, 2014, 06:11:06 PM »

I might not need it all the time, but you can bet I'll have it 
and yes the trip point is the end point if not hit.


Created a variables tab so can watch the updates in real time.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Creating a Probe File

« on: May 22, 2014, 03:42:22 PM »

TP/guys/gals you all like to look at data and B---ch, here is a probing routine I wrote for checking a 3" id
It does move to the center using Darwin and a Renishaw/wire modified probe
no ball diameter or other variables are used other than what you find in the tap file.

there are 8 captured variable files used, the columns in the spreadsheet show just what was being saved and used after each (num in the tap file)
BTW: used Nicks program to create the variable files, Thanks Nick, very functional

here is the tap file and spreadsheet of variables

It probed the circle and moved to the center as well as i could tell.
We are missing tons of Fanuc variables to be truly effective but it did work.
And though it can probe I had to run this in single block as there are some issues running in auto.
I added the g4p2 to give me a block/line of code to write the variables to the file.

I put my original 4 axis router (8020 w/Nema 34 steppers) back together to help me create the Probing routines for Darwin/PP driver.
Still works fine and took no time to setup with Darwin. Anybody need a router? 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: probe guard

« on: May 22, 2014, 12:57:42 PM »

Ya Ya Ya you got me, lol
just 50,000 per inch
been so busy f___ing with mach4/Lua that I forgot to get back to you, sorry
I bad

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Bug Reports

« on: May 20, 2014, 09:27:45 AM »

RRO (rapid rate over ride) does not seem to work with the buttons or keyboard arrow keys. Works well with G0 moves though.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Vise for wood carving

« on: May 20, 2014, 08:13:27 AM »

4 inches?
I'm looking for more like 30mm from table to vise base face.
Can do a lot in 4inches
still would be cool to see what you have in mind.
adjustable leveling wedges with several pinch clamping jaws all mounted on a subplate.
With the the leveling wedges screwed down to tabletop.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Variables reading and writing

« on: May 20, 2014, 07:02:15 AM »

Lets hope they get to all Fanuc variables someday, I used to love 3001 for getting run times, when I had to meet a cycle time.
there is a slew of great variables which would be nice to see implemented.
Found variables one of the best ways to keep people from editing your program.
What they don't see they can not change.
I could change positions mcodes, feedrates, tools, spindle speeds just as an example while a program was running by just changing the variable before the next time it called it.
Great for production runs when you can't stop edit and then restart.
Perfect for when your doing an evaluation on new tooling with a salesman
create a variable using 3001 to update your cycle timer then during the run tweak some variables and see how the changes effect overall times.
If nothing else Mach4/Macro B should make better programmers out of the people that write programs.
As a desktop simulator, saves on testing at the machine.
Just that feature alone should sell Mach4 to industry, prove to yourself and your boss your program works before you get that machine time.

This link is a great resource for learning Macro B programming
http://www.machinetoolhelp.com/Applications/macro/macro_variables.html

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Creating a Probe File

« on: May 19, 2014, 04:46:25 PM »

haven't f'd with trying to open a points file as of yet. So can't help ya there.

I don't open a thing just run the code and tell it what to do with the point variables.

I have never gotten the Sim to work when it comes to probing. And I have tried every way that I though might work.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Feature Request

« on: May 19, 2014, 04:40:06 PM »

That's the reason I posted, how to find and fix a xml file that does not load, happened to me more than once. PITA... but beat starting over.