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General Mach Discussion / Re: How do I assign an m-function to a parallel port pin?

« on: April 04, 2013, 03:58:33 PM »

It sounds like he wanted to know HOW to set up spindle and coolant.

You do that in Config,portspins,spindle and setup what outputs you want.

Then go to OUTPUTS and setup the pins and ports for those outputs.


Just a thought, (;-)tp

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Maintenance - box "Spindle On Time" is alway 0

« on: April 04, 2013, 02:44:32 PM »

OK just to clear something up the timer is NOT really a run timer as per say. It just sets a flag and then compares 2-1=secs.  when Mach shuts down the function stops.

AND this will NOT work unless you are running the LPT version driver(;-) so if you are using a SS it will not work.

Just thinking ,I think this would work from the macropump and be an automatic Function done this way. It uses bypass functions so it does not ping the leds all the time. IF the function needs to change only then will it ping the LEDs.
At least I think , I have not tested it in real life for this function. Look like that is YOUR job now (;-)

If GetOemLed(11) AND Not GetUserLed(1000) then
       SetTimer(10)
      SetUserLed(1000,1)
End If

If NOT GetOemLed(11) AND GetUserLed(1000) then
       SetUSerDro(2000, (GetUserDro(2000) + ((GetTimer(10) /60) /60)))
        SetUserLed(1000,0)
End IF

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Maintenance - box "Spindle On Time" is alway 0

« on: April 04, 2013, 01:34:16 PM »

OK plan C (;-) Extract the Month, day, Year from the DATE as mm,dd,yy  then create a Interger as a string.
Then write the interger to a DRO(which IS saved)




It would look like this as an integer

040413    where mmddyy is the format

Yep I would do it that way so no file writing involved.

Just a thought, (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Maintenance - box "Spindle On Time" is alway 0

« on: April 04, 2013, 12:22:17 PM »

OK just tested some more and that was a bad plan, Mach3 does not SAVE userlabels to the XML on shutdown.

So plan B you would write the date to a file to hold and call it to screen in the intiation string so it views in the label when you start MACH3.

Just a bit more programming, (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Disable Sound

« on: April 04, 2013, 12:03:58 PM »

Kenneth try a new label and call it MDI  When Mach3 changes state of the G20/21 it will show Inches, MM

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: need help to output commands to coordinate just theta and x axis

« on: April 04, 2013, 11:57:07 AM »

I think you need to convert the X or Y to polar values to run as A.  Cart to Polar conversions are fairly simple .

OR in you cam Have IT do the conversion for you.

Just a thought, (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Maintenance - box "Spindle On Time" is alway 0

« on: April 04, 2013, 11:02:25 AM »

The label would be called UserLabel15 if you used the number 15 . It can be any number as long as the label# and call # are the same.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Maintenance - box "Spindle On Time" is alway 0

« on: April 04, 2013, 12:57:30 AM »

Instead of a dro use a UserLabel()

Set uP a userlabel on the screen say UserLabel(15)

Then code to add date,time

SetUserLabel(15,"" &Date &Time)

(;-) TP

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: G18 and G02 G03 problem

« on: April 03, 2013, 04:45:51 PM »

Spoken like A true chip slinger (;-)

(;-) TP

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: G18 and G02 G03 problem

« on: April 03, 2013, 04:39:10 PM »

I think if you look at t slot millers they can do a bit of side cutting.

Just a thought, (;-) TP