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CS-Lab / Re: Precise homing even with CSMIO-M

« on: May 04, 2014, 06:59:17 AM »

I think what Hood is doing is this.
Is Ref All macro does not do any homing in Mach3, and he has no home switches enabled in Mach3.
His macro tells the servo drives to home the machine (through Modbus). When the servo drives have finished homing, they send a signal back to the macro via ModBus. When the macro receives this signal, it calls the Mach3 Ref (Home) command. Since there are no Home switches enabled, this just sets machine coordinates to zero.

You probably don't even need to send a signal back to Mach3 (the macro) to verify that homing is complete. But if you don't, your homing macro will finish before homing is actually completed. You'd need to make sure you don't try to move the machine before homing completes.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plasma Z home speed homing in rapid

« on: May 03, 2014, 05:20:41 PM »

Homing speed? Far right column in Config > Homing/Limits

Just a guess, as I don't use plasma.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Comments about Mach4 in Demo

« on: May 03, 2014, 01:06:43 PM »

From my experience running $150,000 routers with proprietary controls, I'd rip out 90% of what's in Mach3. You'd get rid of 90% of the support issues that new router users have.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Kerf problems on multiple parts

« on: May 03, 2014, 01:03:14 PM »

The D is fine, and should be after G41.

I think your issue is with the lead in's, or lack of them. Unfortunately, it's in Incremental mode, and it's hard for me to follow what's going on.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Script question ?

« on: May 01, 2014, 06:21:35 PM »

Existing DRO's, or new ones?

You need to do something like:


xval = getoemdro(x)
yval = getoemdro(x)
Code "G53 X" & xval & " Y" & yval



the (x) in the GetOEMDRO(x) is the DRO #.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cannot create new profile in Mach3

« on: May 01, 2014, 11:22:25 AM »

sorry, it's C:\Mach3\Mach3.exe /p profilename

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cannot create new profile in Mach3

« on: May 01, 2014, 11:21:07 AM »

It creates a clean, blank profile.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cannot create new profile in Mach3

« on: May 01, 2014, 10:03:55 AM »

Create a new desktop shortcut, with the target being C:\Mach3 /p newprofilename
When youstart mach3 from the shortcut, a new profile will be created.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Comments about Mach4 in Demo

« on: May 01, 2014, 08:29:23 AM »

We already have it.  Full Fanuc custom macro B with full G65 and G66 support as well.  It is a Mach 4 Industrial feature.  Not part of Mach 4 Hobby as Mach3 never had it

You guys do realize that this is going to cost $1000 or more?

Brian, any thought about a reduced price "industrial hobby" version with no phone support? Maybe at $500? There are a lot of advanced hobby users who've always wanted these features, but don't necessarily need support. Provided there's adequate documentation.

Is there a list of what features industrial will have that Hobby won't?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Multiple G-Codes on Mach3

« on: May 01, 2014, 07:50:31 AM »

Use one of the Mach3 ATC posts, and you can output multiple toolpaths with different tools.