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General Mach Discussion / Re: Easy way to add a "Safety" to the Spindle button on the standard lathe screen?

« on: October 13, 2013, 11:50:22 AM »

I looked at the turn screen AND it uses the "S"Key as a hotkey to turn the spindle ON/OFF so that you do not need to use the mouse to do that function.

You CAN change that hotkey to USE 2 keys at the same time Say Control & S

Normally just using the S key would give you a layer of safety over the mouse .

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Easy way to add a "Safety" to the Spindle button on the standard lathe screen?

« on: October 13, 2013, 11:17:11 AM »

I do not know of any way directly with the mach3 screen set to do what you need.

You CAN setup a hotkey for the spindle ON/off button that will require 2 hotkeys pressed to do the function

Control & F5  for example can control the spindle button.

Does the Lathe side NOT use a hotkey for the spindle?

Just a thought, (;-) TP

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Problems with probe set up and use

« on: October 12, 2013, 08:54:13 PM »

That plugin does not work with later versions of Mach3.

If you are lucky you may get it to work with an earlier version.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: tool change macro, how to make it wait for spindle to stop

« on: October 12, 2013, 06:11:33 PM »

Asa safety I would allow a break out over time to make sure it does not LOCK into the loop and never let you out(reboot required). The following would let you out of the loop IF the Speed =0   OR if it timed out by 10 seconds.

SetOemDro(2050,0)
D0 while GetOemDro(39) > 0 OR GetOemDro(2050)  < 9
SetOemDro(2050, GetOemDro(2050 +1)
Sleep(1000)
Loop


Just a thought, (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: The bugs keep coming ??

« on: October 12, 2013, 04:59:10 PM »

On the settings page set A to 0.000 it should turn radius compensation OFF.

OR go to Config/Toolpath then turn OFF use radius for feedrate.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How many spindle index pulses per revolution

« on: October 12, 2013, 12:57:13 PM »

You can run the 16 pulses but you will have to compensate in the pulley setup with a 16 to 1 ratio so your RPM will be correct. The real question will be is MACH3 fast enough to read the 16 index counts at higher rpms  , probably not.

Just a thought, (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: The bugs keep coming ??

« on: October 12, 2013, 12:50:38 PM »

Mach3 is doing as Ger suggested. The setup for an A axis is normally inline with X and Z 90 degs to X. So that if you lower Z it compensates for the radius difference.

Now if you do not want that option then I believe you can turn it off in config

Just a thought, (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: tool change macro, how to make it wait for spindle to stop

« on: October 12, 2013, 10:50:30 AM »

In your tool changer macro you would do a check of the Spindle speed

D0 while GetOemDro(39) > 0
Loop

the code will stay in the LOOP until the value of the DRO gets equal  to zero.

Now mind you it can possible stay locked in the loop IF the DRO does not clear to zero.

Just a thought(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Delay between lines of code

« on: October 11, 2013, 11:37:11 AM »

OK 1st question do you have your A axis setup as linear or angular(polar)?


Go to "Config" then "toolpath". Top right side there is a section that says rotations, what is checked.

You should have checked

Use radius for feedrate

A- rotations enabled

Axis of rotation.

NEXT go to the setting page, top right there is a section that allows you to set the radius of the part you are working with in A axis. SET the radius value.

NOW try your code again.

IF the A is not linked to a linear axis it may not have a look ahead function NOR will the feedrates be synced as a unit. Also the radius setting allow mach3 to define the blended feedrate correctly.

ALSO after you have changed everything Shut down mach3 and restart.

Just a thought, (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need some gcode help again. Using Ger's Screenset (but that isn't the issue)

« on: October 10, 2013, 11:01:27 AM »

Just a thought but I have found that screaming fast PCs can be a problem with macros and timing, requiring a lot more wait states involved.

Just a thought, (;-) TP