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General Mach Discussion / Re: Reset = E-stop?

« on: June 06, 2011, 03:02:53 AM »

I don't know for sure all I did was clean out the code and retype it in again and it worked OK.

Give that a try, (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Uncheck EStop?

« on: June 06, 2011, 02:45:27 AM »

You cannot turn off the Estop in MACH. Are you getting an error when it stops?

(;-) TP

5733

General Mach Discussion / Re: Machining time or run time

« on: June 06, 2011, 02:43:51 AM »

SURE is go to the toolpath page and press simulate program run. That should give you the estimated run time.
(;-)TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Reset = E-stop?

« on: June 06, 2011, 02:41:08 AM »

OK I cleaned out all the button code for all the resets and reentered the code and it seems to work fine here.  NO resets when you use the button

Opened with MachScreen and it declared the screen set corrupt for some reason.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Reset = E-stop?

« on: June 06, 2011, 02:23:00 AM »

NOW I see it happening in YOUR screenset. That same code runs fine in MY screen set. That mean you may have some crossed up button code or possible duplicate hotkeys somewhere in the screenset.

Been there done that one before. I will start looking for the problem to help out.

(;-)TP

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: odd tool path after opening g code in mach 3

« on: June 06, 2011, 12:19:53 AM »

OK after blowing up the toolpath real big. the small moves are a JIGGLE to allow the cutter to plunge into the material better.

The "2" circles is because the bottom does NOT go as deep as the material so it thinks it is a circular pocket. SO it cuts the outer radius of the hole then moves in to clean up the center portion. IF you meant for the hole to go all the way thru you might want to check the tool settings verses the material height in the CAM. IF it does cut all the way thru and leaves that little peg in the center floating around it CAN jam up the bit and break it.

Normally for a thru hole it would jiggle down and cut the center first THEN move out o cut the pouter radius of the hole leaving NO loose peg.

Then it moves out to cut the exterior contour in steps.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Reset = E-stop?

« on: June 06, 2011, 12:11:25 AM »

OK I think I figured it out. The While Ismoving will not release the loop because mach is still active in a paused mode. 

We will need to use

 While IsStopped() =0
Wend

That Way the LOOP is released the moment ALL the axis's actually stop moving.

I could have sworn the ismoving() used to work for this ??  Maybe the brain has faded.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Reset = E-stop?

« on: June 05, 2011, 10:07:35 PM »

Sorry Hood the first line should reference button(1001)  Feedhold. Not 1002

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Reset = E-stop?

« on: June 05, 2011, 09:45:54 PM »

Hood could you test something on your end to confirm something? The While Ismoving will NOT work with the feedhold RUNNING a Gcode Progam. As long as the feedhold is still active the while Ismoving()  loop holds up VB in a wait loop.  

IF you Press the STOP button manually it releases the loop and continues the VB code  (;-( I don't remember it being that way in the past.


DoOemButton(1002) 'Feedhold
While Ismoving()
Sleep 10
Wend
Message " It made it passed the Feedhold"
Sleep 5000
DoOemButton(1003)
Message "It made it to STOP"
end

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: odd tool path after opening g code in mach 3

« on: June 05, 2011, 08:26:52 PM »

OK you got me on this one, The code is there to cut something but what(;-) there are a bunch of micro moves inside of tiny circles. Do you have a drawing or picture or rendering as to what it suppose to look like?

Just a thought(;-) TP