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General Mach Discussion / Re: New CNC Design Stage

« on: November 02, 2015, 07:54:18 PM »

Reading on this forum I noticed some folks are using UC300-USB or the Warp9td controllers. At this stage I can’t decide if I want to spend the extra $$$ or stick with the G540.

You still need to use the G540 with these motion controllers, as they are not stepper drives.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 - 3D Printer Mode ??

« on: November 02, 2015, 02:07:09 PM »

I thought I read that the g-code interpreter is slightly different for 3D printer mode.

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Finished Screens / Re: Mach3 2010 Screenset - Now available

« on: November 01, 2015, 07:10:34 AM »

I replied to your email. It's also probably somewhere in this thread.

In the M881, M889, and M6End macros, you need to change the value of FirstProbeDist. There are two, one for inches (6) and one for mm's (150).

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Finished Screens / Re: Mach3 2010 Screenset - Now available

« on: October 30, 2015, 09:48:02 PM »

Sorry, but I don't know what button your referring to.
The 2010 screenset was designed for running routers, and was never intended to use tangential mode.

You either need to modify the 2010 Screenset to do what you need, or just use View > Load screens to switch to the default screenset.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: mcX360 Test Needed

« on: October 30, 2015, 03:33:21 PM »

Thought the point of external motion controllers was to unload some of the load though... So newer faster probably not a vaild reason.

Yes, it unloads some of the load. However, many of these people wanting to use XP are still wanting to use the parallel port, so the motion controller argument doesn't work there.

Also, consider that virtually all modern software uses a lot more resources than software written 10+ years ago.

Microsoft Office 2007 will run pretty well on a 1Ghz XP machine, but try running the current version of office on it.

Mach3 was written about 12 years ago, and Mach4, even with a motion controller, runs best with a lot more horsepower behind it. Unfortunately, there's no way around that.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: mcX360 Test Needed

« on: October 30, 2015, 01:52:37 PM »

I would bet that at least 90% of new Mach3 users in the last 3-4 years are using an OS newer than XP.
Brian has said that their development platform no longer supports XP.

Microsoft no longer supports XP, so why would anyone writing new software try to support XP. It makes no sense at all.
If common sense is in the minority, so be it.

And yes, Daz has done a tremendous amount for Mach4.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: mcX360 Test Needed

« on: October 30, 2015, 12:34:04 PM »

what's not to like about XP?

It's obsolete and shouldn't be supported with modern software, because if you get a situation like this where the latest DirectX is required, there's a good chance it won't work on XP. Artsoft is jumping through hoops and probably wasting a ton of time and money trying to support 10 year old PC's.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: mcX360 Test Needed

« on: October 30, 2015, 09:48:58 AM »

As this plugin is using Xinput you will need the latest directX on your machine.

Does this mean that it won't work on XP machines? Seems like a lot of Mach4 users are trying to keep using XP.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: mcX360 Its Nearly Here

« on: October 28, 2015, 11:07:59 AM »

Been programming different languages for 15 years or more.......................................

PS just remembered my first programming was in basic on the commodore64, crikey........

Commodore 64 was about 30 years ago...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Confused about work offsets

« on: October 28, 2015, 07:43:48 AM »

I cannot seem to set the offsets to zero since that just changes the DRO reading, and setting the DRO to zero changes the offset.

That's how offsets work.
I suggest you watch the Homing, Limits and Offsets video at machsupport.com