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General Mach Discussion / Re: G92 and G52 - How SHOULD They Work?

« on: November 15, 2011, 01:14:01 AM »

Ray I double checked an older version and it appears that the G52 G92 ARE seperate intities as they do show seperately in the mode bar.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: G92 and G52 - How SHOULD They Work?

« on: November 15, 2011, 12:36:56 AM »

Ray I sent you a copy of the manual look starting at chapter7.2

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: G92 and G52 - How SHOULD They Work?

« on: November 15, 2011, 12:29:51 AM »

I don't think of the G52/92 as more abs or relative.  But more that the G92 is a global offset and the G52 is a local temp offset.

I think I in mach they are exactly the same thing though. IF you call either mode in Mach3 you get the same modal number in the top mode message bar. SO who really knows. Probably best to research the original EMC base code to see what it was in the beginning and test from there to verify.

G92 is considered obsolete and replaced by the G54-59 system. BUT everyone seems to still use it.  I would preferr the G10L2 system to update teh G54-59 to using the G92. BUT the G92 is simple to use.

Take your pick(;-), (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: G92 and G52 - How SHOULD They Work?

« on: November 14, 2011, 11:47:43 PM »

Ray I can send you the info on G52 and G92 from the Fanuc manual if that would help.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: G92 and G52 - How SHOULD They Work?

« on: November 14, 2011, 11:30:53 PM »

HIYA RAY, Correct for what controller???  That is the problem.

One thing for sure it is NOT a good idea to mix the 2.

(;-) TP

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: How to halt a script halfway & wait for a user entered CR?

« on: November 14, 2011, 08:57:08 PM »

If I were to do this I would first start off by setting up 2 fixture offsets to handle the switching between the camera and the tool.

I would set up say G56 as the camera offset and G55 as the tool offset.

Mount the board, switch to the G56 offset load the set rotation wizard.

Run the routine to set the rotation angle.

Close the wizard

Jog over to the reference point and set the coords X/Y to whatever they are

Next Switch fixture offsets over to the G55 and you are ready to cut.

IF you had a LOT of them to do a dedicated Macro would be best but that will get you going until you can figure out the Macro code you want.

THe CB code to do the Rotation angle is IN the wizard button. You can use it for the hard part(;-).

Just a thought,(;-) TP

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: How to halt a script halfway & wait for a user entered CR?

« on: November 14, 2011, 08:41:57 PM »

There is no macro restart function with CR in Mach CB.

Have you tried the Set Rotation Wizard to align the board??

I think you asked about this before.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: CNC Plasma Starts firing and stops

« on: November 13, 2011, 09:18:07 PM »

Make the call , They are the only ones that know how the machine is configured in order to make a quik diagnostic repair. The rest of us would have to guess.

IS this a new machine or it just started doing this??  SOunds like it is NOT getting the ARC good signal to Mach for it to start the program runnning.

Do you have the ground cable hooked to the material ? IF not you may be only getting the pilot arc not teh cutting arc.

Just a thought, (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Do not allow any movement until servo drives ready

« on: November 13, 2011, 08:34:41 PM »

I do it as Hood does the system estop is a seperate circuit that kills power to all drives and signals Mach3.  I would never allow Mach3 to software control the actual estop function.

(;-)TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Do not allow any movement until servo drives ready

« on: November 13, 2011, 06:11:46 PM »

WHy not chain all the drives as to the drive good signal and feed it into the estop in Mach3. Until the drives all go good Mach3 cannot come out of Estop so it cannot be made to move.

Just a thought, (;-) TP