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General Mach Discussion / Re: Y axis movement opposite.

« on: July 15, 2016, 01:25:35 PM »

Which way is X+?
It should be to the right.


Which way is Y+?
It should be up, or away from you.

If correct, and the image is inverted, where is the origin in your CAM program?

Did you change any of the jogging hotkey assignments?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Strange zeroing occurrence

« on: July 12, 2016, 05:53:58 PM »

Check your Safe Z settings.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Ref All Home & Auto Square Not Working

« on: July 11, 2016, 05:45:50 PM »

I built my sensors based on this thread:

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/open-source-cnc-machine-designs/101878-cnc-forum.html

And yes, I'm using a Xylotex that I bought about 10 years ago.

I don't know if the kits that Jeff is selling now are using the same board or not?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Ref All Home & Auto Square Not Working

« on: July 11, 2016, 11:52:42 AM »

You can change the microstepping, but I would NOT recommend it. The Xylotex is very susceptible to resonance issues, and running at lower microstep settings can make it much worse.

I've been using one for many years at 1/8 microstepping and get very repeatable homing with homemade Hall effect switches.

To be honest, in  almost 15 years of doing this, I've never heard anyone recommend reducing microstepping to improve homing accuracy.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Ref All Home & Auto Square Not Working

« on: July 10, 2016, 01:52:31 PM »

I'm thinking that since I'm trying to square the gantry that the accuracy of them coming off the sensor is more important than when it goes into the sensor.

Correct. Sorry, but I've never used proximity sensors.

Have you looked through this manual?

http://www.machsupport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/VBScript_Commands.pdf

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Ref All Home & Auto Square Not Working

« on: July 10, 2016, 09:15:50 AM »

Can you post your .xml file?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Ref All Home & Auto Square Not Working

« on: July 09, 2016, 10:18:55 PM »

What version of Mach3?
Parallel port?

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Mach Screens / Re: 2010 Screen Set Macro assistance

« on: July 07, 2016, 07:57:30 PM »

It depends on what exactly you want to do.

If you want the edge of your spoilboard to be Machine Zero, then you'd enter that number in the Home Offset in Config > Homing/Limits.

Then, if you want to move to Y0 after homing, then just use this in your home script.

DoButton(23)
Code "G53 G0 Y0"
While IsMoving()
Wend

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Finished Screens / Re: Mach3 2010 Screenset - Now available

« on: July 04, 2016, 06:26:13 PM »

Operator > VB Script Editor.
The macros are M code macros, and the numbers are listed in the probing manual.
You want to edit M909 in the Mach3\macros\yourprofilename\ folder

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Finished Screens / Re: Mach3 2010 Screenset - Now available

« on: July 04, 2016, 04:23:28 PM »

I am trying to find the center of a circular pocket, but after initial contact on the Y axis, I get a "probe ignored" message.  It appears it is not backing off enough to reset the probe.  How do I adjust this? 

Sorry, I was away for the weekend with no internet access.

The macros are coded to back off 1/4 of the probe diameter. You'd need to edit the macros to change it.
Backing off further is not going to help if the probe is still being triggered after backing off 1/4 of the probe diameter.
Is the probe sticking, or the contacts bouncing? Perhaps noise is triggering it?

As mentioned, mach3 does not support tool tips.