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General Mach Discussion / Re: Amusing subroutine label bug

« on: January 27, 2012, 06:57:40 PM »

Weird here NOW the sub will not run without an M30

M98 P1 L1
o1
(Hello)
M99
%

Will not run, BUT

M98 P1 L1
M30
o1
(Hello)
M99
%

Will run.

Who knows???  (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Amusing subroutine label bug

« on: January 27, 2012, 06:33:18 PM »

BUT not if it did NOT have an associated M98 that called it. They come as a pair  The m98 calls and the M99 from that sub call returns.

If you try to run the sub code ONLY you get the same message.

Were the 2 subs nested 1 sub inside another I did not test that routine.

Yep I have a lot of parametric subs as well but it can be like russian roulet to get one running. The you give the program to someone and it never runs again on their setup. Been there.

Can you post teh program that runs BOTH subs from one call?? Interesting

(;-) TP

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Brains Development / Re: Z-Axis Safety

« on: January 27, 2012, 12:30:26 PM »

HERE you go already been done

http://romaxxcnc.com/encoderinfo.html

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Amusing subroutine label bug

« on: January 27, 2012, 12:03:11 PM »

OK just tried it and it errors out every time with "return called with no sub in effect....looping" as it should have.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Amusing subroutine label bug

« on: January 27, 2012, 11:56:19 AM »

You are just experienceing what some of us already know when you move away from just very basic Gcode.

I have never run across that one, but I don't recall trying duplicate Subs.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: G31 no error displayed ?

« on: January 26, 2012, 11:02:12 AM »

YEP I agree it was a BEACH that there was not an error signal. When running LONG probing routines it woul dbe NICE if the REcorded data SHOWED WHERE in the routine A PROBLEM existed. Even a simple parameter NUMBER like "9999" Where the 9999 means an overun. and it is VERY easy to spot in a data file.

X1.000 Y2.000 Z.000 A0.000
X9999  Y9999  Z9999 A9999

SOrry for the ramble but when you are probing intake ports on race engines and the routine runs for hundreds of thousands of probes these things become very important to know.

NOW back to the regularly scheduled program,

(;-)TP

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: search function edge finder for XYZABC

« on: January 24, 2012, 09:38:38 PM »

For homing the G28.1 function would work the best. Set each axis switch up in config then just use the G28.1 code or RefCombination() in a macro

(;-) TP

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: search function edge finder for XYZABC

« on: January 24, 2012, 11:05:21 AM »

Really can't say I understand what you are asking for.  Do you want to use the G31 probe function OR can you use the G28.1 homing function.

IF you are just setting the 0.000 point then G28.1 works very well and would be best suited for the application.

THe G28.1 sends the axis back to a reference switch. Then as the switch is found it sets the Machine coords to Zero or a predetermaned point.

THe problem with the G31 is it only records points for XYZA.

Hope that helps, (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Configuring Mach3 For Plasma

« on: January 23, 2012, 07:32:29 PM »

CLoser than I thought, Here is the link, Good luck with it.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,20076.0.html

(;-)TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Configuring Mach3 For Plasma

« on: January 23, 2012, 07:02:23 PM »

SOMEWHERE on the web someone conquered the chines HF start noise  problem. He had posted the info on HOW TO.  I think it was on the  PlasmaSPider site.

Just a thought. (;-) TP