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VB and the development of wizards / Re: DoOemButton(138) / G28

« on: January 21, 2013, 10:29:14 PM »

One PC has SafeZ enabled, and one doesn't?

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Code "gcode" running in VB but not running in sequence

« on: January 21, 2013, 10:26:33 PM »

If you want everything to run in sequence, the script needs to wait for each move to finish before executing the next one.
To do that, you need to add While IsMoving() statements.

code "S20 M3"
While IsMoving()
Wend
code "G1 Z20"
While IsMoving()
Wend
code "M5"
While IsMoving()
Wend
code "M30"
While IsMoving()
Wend

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Constant Velocity solution for some

« on: January 18, 2013, 10:32:03 PM »

Try these settings.
CV: On
CV Feedrate: Off
CV Distance: Off
CV Angle: 181
Plasma: Off
G100 Adaptive: Off

These settings should give you smooth motionwith arcs in your code, which is preferable to the workaround you're using.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: 32-bit vs. 64-bit VBScript support

« on: January 16, 2013, 06:28:19 PM »

Mach3 uses Cypress Enable as it's scripting engine.
http://www.cypressinc.com/

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 made unexpected move.

« on: January 14, 2013, 11:50:25 AM »

Terry, it's the Tormach version of Mach3, and their M998 macro.

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Is there a list of permitted names of plugins?

« on: January 14, 2013, 11:49:10 AM »

Brian replied on the Yahoo group this morning.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Point Clouds and Probing

« on: January 14, 2013, 11:48:32 AM »

Try MachCloud, or MeshLAB

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Mach3 and G-Rex / Re: feed rate overrun

« on: January 12, 2013, 09:57:17 AM »

Your g-code should have a feedrate i nit, like F100
6is the default feedrate when you open Mach3.
Your g-code need to tell Mach3 how fast you want it to go.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 2nd Tool Head and related offset settings

« on: January 09, 2013, 08:40:02 AM »

Although that doesn't look too difficult, just have to designate in CAM carefully, the tool number, and follow through. Maybe designate 1-5 for spindle 1, and 5-10 for the other.

For my machine, I was thinking 1-100 for SPindle 1, and 101-200 for spindle 2. Provides more room to grow.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 2nd Tool Head and related offset settings

« on: January 08, 2013, 08:38:11 PM »

That will only work if you never re zero the X and Y axis while in G54. If you zero them, you change the G54 X and Y offsets, which changes the relationship to the G55 offset, so it would no longer be correct.
That's why the example I posted uses G52.