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Finished Screens / Re: Mach3 2010 Screenset - Now available

« on: January 08, 2015, 07:28:09 AM »

Watch the DRO when it touches the plate. You should see it change to the plate thickness, before the tool lifts up.
Do you see this?

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Finished Screens / Re: Mach3 2010 Screenset - Now available

« on: January 07, 2015, 07:58:23 PM »

I don't see anything in the .xml.
You never answered my question. If you watch during probing, is it actually touching the plate on the second touch?

All the macro really does, is set the Z DRO to the plate thickness, when it touches the plate. I have no idea how your Z zero can be set incorrectly.

Are you using the parallel port? I see two port addresses, and two ports enabled, but nothing using port 2?

Another thing I wanted to mention is that when I use the toggle toolpath on/off  button in off mode,  the toolpath still displays but is locked from being able to be manipulated in zoom/pan, etc., until I turn it back on.

If I set it to off and load a new file the new files toolpath doesn't show up until I toggle the display back on.

That's just how Mach3 works. If you turn off the toolpath, it no longer gets redrawn, and remains as it was.

Now what's really weird is if I turn it off, then pull up the probing wizard (covering the whole screen), then close the wizard, when the main screen reappears the toolpath window is now solid white (black background before) with no toolpath being shown. Furthermore, when I toggle the toolpath back on it reappears with the black background.

When you load the wizard, you effectively are loading a new screenset. When you start Mach3 or load a screenset (or wizard) with the toolpath off, it's a blank white screen.

I looked again in the manual and it only says it toggle the toolpath on and off. I'm confused as to what is supposed to happen. I assumed the toolpath off meant it wasn't supposed to be displayed, maybe to help slower PC's and I sort of confirmed that with going to the probe wizard and back. Did you intend for the toggle to lock/unlock?

When it's off, it's not displaying anything, it just shows what was there when it was turned off. Even though it appears to display the toolpath when off, it doesn't, and it does indeed help on slower PC's, or with very large files, which can cause issues with even fast PC's.

The Toolpath On/Off button has the same functrionality as the one in the default 1024 screenset. That's just the way it works.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help A axis slaved to Y homing problem

« on: January 07, 2015, 10:54:54 AM »

Did you have Home Slave with Master checked?
Is this with the parallel port, or a motion controller?

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Finished Screens / Re: Mach3 2010 Screenset - Now available

« on: January 07, 2015, 09:41:44 AM »

I also have a beeper wired in that only will beep when physical contact is made (noise issue won't activate the beeper).

How are you doing this?

WATCH the tool and see if it's touching the plate. That's really the only way you could be getting an error, as the macros just set Z zero where the probe touches.

Make sure you have no values in the Material Offset box, btw.

If you post your .xml, I'll take a look and see if I can see anything.
In 4 years, I haven't had anyone get an incorrect zero that wasn't noise related.

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Finished Screens / Re: Mach3 2010 Screenset - Now available

« on: January 07, 2015, 07:55:44 AM »

Are you sure you have the correct plate thickness entered?

If it is, watch very carefully during the probing. If I had to guess, I would think that it's not touching the plate on the second probe.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help A axis slaved to Y homing problem

« on: January 06, 2015, 10:14:13 PM »

Do the Y and A have separate home switches, or do you just have one?

In General Config, there's an option for "Home Slave with Master".
Check it if you have one switch, uncheck it if you have two switches.

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FAQs / Re: Vcarve doesn’t see Mach3 running to save G-code directly to Mach3

« on: January 05, 2015, 07:18:08 PM »

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mach1mach2cnc/

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FAQs / Re: Vcarve doesn’t see Mach3 running to save G-code directly to Mach3

« on: January 05, 2015, 08:42:43 AM »

Yesterday, someone on the Yahoo group uploaded the information you need to add to the registry to fix this issue. You should be able to find it in the files section of the Yahoo Group.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Auto Zero error

« on: January 04, 2015, 03:57:11 PM »

It zeroes the machine coordinates.
If you have any offsets entered, they will display the offsets, rather than zero's.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Auto Zero error

« on: January 04, 2015, 11:02:55 AM »

What exactly are you trying to do?

The "Auto Tool Zero" button and the "Auto Zero" option in the Homing/Limits screen are two separate things.

If you're trying to Auto Zero the Z axis, then you need to add an auto zero script to the button. The default button does nothing.