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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 windows 8.1 32bit install - blue screen

« on: January 25, 2015, 12:36:33 PM »

I think just Windows 7, but I don't know for sure.
You can get a UC100 or similar if you want to use 8.1.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 windows 8.1 32bit install - blue screen

« on: January 25, 2015, 11:46:20 AM »

I don't think the driver will work in Windows 8.1 (or 8 ).

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3, Gecko G540 and UC-100

« on: January 25, 2015, 11:45:13 AM »

Yes

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3, Gecko G540 and UC-100

« on: January 25, 2015, 10:44:53 AM »

Yes, The UC100 and G540 will work fine together.
If your g-code is correct, then your steps/unit are probably incorrect.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: XML FILE WONT LOAD

« on: January 25, 2015, 07:09:22 AM »

Make sure the name of the .xml doesn't have any spaces in it, or it won't work from a desktop shortcut.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Confusion with Offsets Screen documentation

« on: January 23, 2015, 11:54:08 AM »

It doesn't seem like you can zero both the current work offset and the active work offset by just clicking or entering values in the DROs on the Offsets page.

I don't have a copy of mach3 in front of me, so I may word something incorrectly here.

Your terminology is incorrect. The "Current Work Offset" is describing the offset number, 1, 2, 3, ....
The "Active Work Offset" is describing the offset g-code, G54, G55, G66, ...

There are two sets of DRO's on the offset page.
1) The Offsets
2) The machine position in Work Coordinates (with offset applied).

The machine position is the Machine coordinate position - the Offsets. If you zero the offset, the position DRO's will display Machine Coordinates. Machine Coordinates can only be zeroed by Referencing (homing) the axis.

If you zero the position DRO's, what your doing is setting an offset (unless the position is machine zero). So this will change the offset DRO's.
When you zero the offsets, you'll change the position DRO's to show Machine Coordinates.


You might want to watch the tutorial video on homing, limits and offsets, which explains how offsets work.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: M3 S500 doesn't start spindle, subsequent S changes do..... why?

« on: January 22, 2015, 07:38:17 PM »

Try changing your code to S500 M03.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 CNC table Soft Limits configuration

« on: January 20, 2015, 11:32:44 AM »

It may be that your USB board plugin does not properly support Home Offset and SoftLimits. Contact the manufacturer.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: advice on trouble shooting an error required

« on: January 18, 2015, 01:30:59 PM »

Could be a short, or electrical noise. Could be very hard to track down.
If it's noise, a simple fix is to increase the Debounce in general config. Try 2000-3000.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Another confused Noob

« on: January 18, 2015, 08:04:53 AM »

I assumed that I have the port (1) and pin (13) correct since I get a signal to stop. Mach 3 tells me I cannot use the automated pin selector for the ethernet SS hence I have to guess at this point.

If you wired it, why do you have to guess? Figure out which pin it's wired to first, and it might save you several hours in the long run.