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General Mach Discussion / Re: Scripter Compile Errors

« on: December 01, 2011, 08:34:40 PM »

HIYA RAY, To each his own, But from the sounds of the earlier comments you are not doing well at all. Still suffering fromteh Lost Mach Syndrome

I feel your pain but there is little i can say to make it better other than YEP it should get fixed.  But I am just  speaking to the Choir (;-)

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Computer freezes while running Mach3 - Windows XP SP3

« on: December 01, 2011, 06:39:21 PM »

EXactly my point you will NEVER be able to predict WHEN mulitasking will interupt the machine process.

I call it the Game Boy Syndrome (GBS) , (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Configuring Mach3 for wire EDM

« on: December 01, 2011, 04:47:11 PM »

Push feedhold , when it stops push reverse run, when you want to stop push feedhold to return to normal push Cycle start.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Computer freezes while running Mach3 - Windows XP SP3

« on: December 01, 2011, 03:17:05 PM »

The problem is you are running a machine tool with a multitasking computer. It takes a great deal of resources for Mach3 to drive the machine much less check your email and run on the internet doing who knows what.

The freezing up is when your computer is going out and doing OTHER task . WHEN it does this it cannot running the machine properly.

IF you want the machine to be dependable dedicate a computer SOLEY for that purpose like it should be.

Just a thought, (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Scripter Compile Errors

« on: December 01, 2011, 03:12:35 PM »

Hiya Ray there is a reason that a lot of us stay at the 3.042.020 version or very close to it.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Delta VFD control from Mach

« on: December 01, 2011, 10:52:32 AM »

Don't forget Peter Holmans Digi Speed

http://www.homanndesigns.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1&zenid=8ctu9t1gp1kg4g9t9mqt7hqds2

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Recent Mach3 Releases and OEMButton(1000)

« on: November 30, 2011, 10:51:11 PM »

Ray the double tap issue is NOT new (;-)

In plasma work I still see the ignore the M3 problem as well.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Run from here.......

« on: November 30, 2011, 10:10:18 PM »

You need to set up a function button to run the TOM (top of material routine) that the CandCnc units use with the floating head.

Then when you need to restart move to the area to restart then run the TOM routine to set the Z ref.

Select the line you wish to restart on then press SetNextLine and then START , AND be ready to refire the torch manually as the torch approaches the restart point.

You may want to restart a little earlier to give you time to be ready to refire.

I have a Auto restart/Refire routine in testing now along with a lot of cool functions for Plasma using TOms new PN200 pendant.

Just a thought, (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Recent Mach3 Releases and OEMButton(1000)

« on: November 30, 2011, 09:58:50 PM »

RAY one of the BIG problems lately is the CB loosing control of the threads the later versions ARE the worse so far ESPECIALLY with button code and for some reason BUTTON code is the worst offender.

Macropump code is not imune to the problem either.

 BEFORE you say it is not needed TRY IT(;-) It has solved MANY eveils here. It forces MACH to pay attention when it really needs to. Otherwise it is known to ignore and skip things .

I have seen what you are seeing many times.

Just a thought, (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Recent Mach3 Releases and OEMButton(1000)

« on: November 30, 2011, 06:35:35 PM »

DO you have a while Ismoving()  statement after the  OemButton(1000) call?

Try    Button(0) instead

(;-) TP