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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 and PMDX-422 motion controller released

« on: November 10, 2014, 10:50:06 PM »

HAYA Steve S, Do you have list of the things that your motion card CAN and Cannot do ?

Probing ?

Protected mode for probing?

Spindle encoder sync  (rigid tapping)

Home to encoder index signal ?

A list would be helpfull.

Thanks (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: M3 and M4 compiler issues...again

« on: November 07, 2014, 07:16:41 PM »

The G84 tap cycle CAN be and mostly is very quirky.  I would suggest writing it out in longhand Gcode and see if the problem still exists.

I found the MOST reliable way is to use SUBs to write the process for the tap cycle. THIS keeps the control in  straight gcode all the time nand you can call any thread pitch as you need it.

At least rewrite and compile the original M4 macro. That HAS at times corrected the problem here. If rewriting it solves the problem then Compile the macro so hopefully it will not get corrupted again ( I did M3 and M4)

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: M3 and M4 compiler issues...again

« on: November 07, 2014, 05:47:24 PM »

How are you using the M3/4s basically all from Gcode or are they in a macro ??

You may want to try a direct call to the spindle instead of the dospinCW() etc.

Try ActivateSignal() instead.

(;-) TP

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Called Code in Code M executed only at the end ? why ?

« on: November 05, 2014, 06:29:16 PM »

It is all a timing problem with the New FAST PC and Mach3 CB macro. 

SHow us an example of the code you are running . You may be able to rewrite it to better control the timing issues.

(:-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Parameters - how to show the numeric values ??

« on: October 30, 2014, 10:50:57 AM »

I do not have mach3 loaded on this PC but it is in one of the pull down menus on the top of the screen. I think it is in the operator pull down menu.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Parameters - how to show the numeric values ??

« on: October 29, 2014, 08:57:59 PM »

There is a Var monitor built into Mach3. Open it and assign whatever #var numbers you need to see. It runs in a seperate window so you can run mach3 and watch the vars at the same time.

(:-) TP

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Tangent Corner / Re: We all make mistakes.

« on: October 01, 2014, 11:18:18 AM »

HIYA TWeekie, What you need is a Kevlar cored belt(Gates) they do not stretch under load as the kevlar core is cast into the structure of the belt.

(:-) TP

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: September 06, 2014, 11:44:25 AM »

HIYA Brett any idea as to when V1960 will be out for testing with Darwin ??

(;-) TP

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Bug Reports

« on: June 05, 2014, 09:26:35 AM »

I vote for a user folder and NO admin KEEP it all together like Mach3 was. Very easy to deal with.

Just my 2cents worth, (;-) TP

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Serious problem with G65 #vars

« on: June 05, 2014, 09:15:15 AM »

I guess you are right it does look bad for all these problems showing up. I'll move back over to the Bug thread .

(;-) TP