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General Mach Discussion / Re: Running Haas code on Mach3 for a Collage project

« on: May 21, 2015, 09:29:20 AM »

Yea but NOW he is a coder and you are still just POPs. What do you know? 

It gets worse until they reach about 35-40 then all of a sudden you turn into a flipping GENIOUS.

Been there, (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool Table in CSV Format

« on: May 20, 2015, 04:11:05 PM »

I meant that the Macros for tool export and import have been done before. Mach3's  tool table has been the same for as long as I  can remember.

The importing will depend on HOW the tool table file that is being used is structured.

(;-) TP

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Z probe macro with offset

« on: May 20, 2015, 10:43:47 AM »

That is Why you build a simple tool setter base probe. You simply probe down and touch off on the Probe base it sets to Zero then probe all the rest of the tools.

IF you look in the Mach tool box section there is a simple routine there that does just that. It uses stock Screen resources so you do NOT have to mod a screen . You just need to add in a button code to a button that is not used.

There is NOTHING wrong with the way you do it (;-) As long as it suites you.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool Table in CSV Format

« on: May 20, 2015, 10:37:53 AM »

Good JOB on the functions BUT it has already been done before(;-)

(;-) TP

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Brains Development / Re: Brain based home switching

« on: May 19, 2015, 06:12:23 PM »

The brain is fast internally BUT it only reads the inputs @10 times per sec. That is very slow for a home switch read.

Why try to reinvent the wheel when Mach3 already has an internal home function which runs at kernal speed?

Just a thought, (;-) TP

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Z probe macro with offset

« on: May 19, 2015, 06:07:23 PM »

If you have not noticed you are still using the Probe as the master tool (;-) You just fudged the length values to suite your way of doing it.  Not a problem. There are as many ways to do this as there are machinest doing it.

You can set tools in the machine just about as fast as you would the tool setter AND the values are automatically loaded into the tool table (;-) So IF you count the time to enter the values the machine would be faster.

THANKS for posting your code it may be a great help to others

Just a thought, (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How many inputs if two parallel printer boards are used? Clarification?

« on: May 19, 2015, 11:40:38 AM »

Yes let Mach3 do all the work Check the selection.

(;-) TP

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Share Your GCode / Re: Crossbones for a noob

« on: May 19, 2015, 11:21:06 AM »

From Mach3 you can use SCALE to make it larger or smaller when you cut it.  Just make sure you scale X and Y the same amount.

(;-) TP

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Z probe macro with offset

« on: May 19, 2015, 11:17:24 AM »

So when you set up to do a job do you use the probe to set the TOM (top of material) to zero ??

It would nice for you to show the macro you use for future users who may want to do it that way.

Yes Tormach does it that way but MOST do not have a seperate tool height guage so they use the machine (;-)

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How many inputs if two parallel printer boards are used? Clarification?

« on: May 19, 2015, 11:09:13 AM »

Yes that is correct LPT #2 can support them all as inputs.

(;-) TP