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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plasma , new macro code

« on: June 26, 2010, 09:16:18 PM »

Do you have any other cool features we need to investigate a way to do???

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plasma , new macro code

« on: June 26, 2010, 08:19:29 PM »

Thanks Dave,  Your file runs fine here with AutoExtents

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plasma , new macro code

« on: June 26, 2010, 07:52:32 PM »

Could you post the file you were using to test?

The M30 does not have anything to do with it(;-) I had removed the M30 to test and never put it back.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plasma , new macro code

« on: June 26, 2010, 07:16:20 PM »

OK what happens IF you let it run for a while. Does it return to a rewound screen or never finishes??

Here it runs the code does the Regen then rewinds back to the top and runs the perimeter moves, showing the moves on the toolpath screen then ends and the gcode is ready to run

If you get a chance could you run the enclosed Test Gcode file to see IF it could be file dependant

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool Table File

« on: June 26, 2010, 03:09:17 PM »

Hood do you know what the TOOLS.dat file is in the main Mach dir?

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General Mach Discussion / Auto XML backup ?

« on: June 26, 2010, 10:26:13 AM »

Does anyone know IF you can turn the "Auto XML backup" feature OFF ??

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Jog VS G00 Performance

« on: June 26, 2010, 10:16:53 AM »

Check to make sure your rapid (G0) overide is at 100%. As you have noticed JOG and G0 are too different things in mach.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool Table File

« on: June 26, 2010, 10:13:33 AM »

The ToolFile is called tool.dat, but it is not excessable outside of MACH (that I know of). It is possible to export and maybe import the data through a VB script.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Closed loop system, encoder connected to mach3

« on: June 26, 2010, 09:57:19 AM »

IAN, what IF we set up a brain to monitor the DRO/encoder like has allready been done. BUT instead of tripping a stop we write a macro to do a controlled stop, record current line of the program. RefHome the  axis then return to Currentline minus say 10 lines then" run from here" to restart???

Might be a poormans closed loop ERROR recovery system

We already have a brain to do cruise controll to monitor spindle speed and regulate Feedrate based on RPM drop.


EMC does run in a realtime kernal so all its I/O is realtime. Mach runs in a Buffered system, once the buffer runs there is little to no interaction to the pulse stream.

Heck even the old DOS could run realtime. I think that the old dos made a good controller inside of the mem limits.

AND there IS a Windows RTK but it is very expensive from MS

I don't think EMC does realtime corrections it just closes the stepper loop LIKE it does with a servo.  It doesn't really matter where you close the loop as far as position controll.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Y, U, V Change X DRO

« on: June 26, 2010, 09:49:05 AM »

OK I will ask the obvious, You said that the mache has 1 axis "X" AND that the Cam puts out multi levels of code as Y,U,V.

Is the machine in it's original configuration with only 1 axis?

It does not make sense for the CAM to output YUV if the machine only has X???

What do the YUV commands do on the machine?