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Mach4 Toolbox / Re: Here is a Down and Dirty, quick mcLua commonly used coding guide "no frills"

« on: November 29, 2014, 09:15:28 PM »

Thanks as well Scott,

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Relief cuts grow larger on one side and become skewed.

« on: November 29, 2014, 09:12:50 PM »

IF you have changed out teh drives and motors and cables with no change then I would suspect the Smooth stepper acting up. DO you have a spare to test ?

NOW the odd part is IF it skews but yet returns back to exactly zero  

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Relief cuts grow larger on one side and become skewed.

« on: November 29, 2014, 08:47:09 PM »

Does it Skew in one axis only ? one direction only ?? everytime or random??

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Relief cuts grow larger on one side and become skewed.

« on: November 29, 2014, 08:21:27 PM »

Has the machine ALWAYS had this problem or is it a NEW problem ?

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Relief cuts grow larger on one side and become skewed.

« on: November 29, 2014, 08:20:30 PM »

DO you know for sure the Drive system is working properly ? Have you stalled the drives to test???

Reduce the VEL in half as well.

Have you checked the screws for accuracy ??  OVer a LONG distance not just a short hop.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Relief cuts grow larger on one side and become skewed.

« on: November 29, 2014, 07:48:28 PM »

I suspect that you are loosing steps do to either too high velocity OR too high excelleration.  and the longer you run the worse it gets position wise.  At the end of a run you should be able to Return to home with compare and see IF that is true.

Try reducing the Vel / accel settings in half and retest the cuts.

(;-) TP

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mcodes ??

« on: November 28, 2014, 11:12:48 PM »

When creating a Mcode is it possible in LUA to have outside parameter calls like we had in Mach3

M102 Pxx Qxx Rxx


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Mach4 General Discussion / Mcodes ??

« on: November 28, 2014, 11:02:59 PM »

Has anyone given any thought as to what AUX Mcodes need to be created ?  Standardizing the Mcode woul dmake POST creation a lot easier rather than having to create many different post ofr many different Mcode definitions.

I have looked at several major players in the CNC control world  and there ARE some standards as far as standards go(;-)



Just a thought, (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Z Hits limit at start of g code

« on: November 28, 2014, 09:31:08 PM »

OR make sure that the Z travel direction is set correctly  .

From Z0
G1 Z1 should raise the spindle to +1
G1 Z-1 should lower the spindle to -1

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Start Mach3 with gcode line numbers displayed

« on: November 28, 2014, 06:48:49 PM »

I do not recall any command to toggle the GcodeLine# on/off.

(;-) TP