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General Mach Discussion / Re: NEED AUTO ZERO HELP

« on: June 03, 2012, 09:41:39 PM »

Hey  Ian  Thanks,works perfect ! I guess I need to work on my cut and paste skills. Thanks , Tommy

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General Mach Discussion / Re: NEED AUTO ZERO HELP

« on: June 02, 2012, 04:56:28 PM »

Hey Ian, Thanks for the quick responce but that didn't do it.I still get the same error message. this is what the code looks like now.
obviously I don't know how to write code but I can copy and paste,maybe I just ran out of glue 

CurrentFeed = GetOemDRO(818) 'Get the current feedrate.
PlateThickness = .375 'You could put your z-plate thickness here instead
ProbeFeed = 5 'You could put a probing feedrate here instead.


Code "G90 F" &ProbeFeed

If GetOemLed (825)=0 Then
Code "G4 P5" 'Time to get to the z-plate
Code "G31Z-5 F" &ProbeFeed
While IsMoving()
Wend
Code "G4 P0.25"
ZProbePos = GetVar(2002)
Code "G0 Z" &ZProbePos
While IsMoving ()
Wend
Call SetDro (2, PlateThickness)
Code "G4 P0.5" 'Pause for Dro to update.
Code "G0 Z2.0" 'Change the Z retract height here
Code "(Z axis is now zeroed)"
Code "F" &CurrentFeed
Else
MsgBox "Probe already touching"
End If)

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General Mach Discussion / NEED AUTO ZERO HELP

« on: June 02, 2012, 09:49:17 AM »

Hey, My auto zero use to work and now it doesn't . Below is the  script I am uesing. The changes I have made are; I went from USB SS to ESS ,Windows xp to Windows 7, And upgraded to the latest ver. of Mach3. The status bar message reads " Scripter Compile Error.in: " .I'm probably missing something simple.  Thanks,Tommy



CurrentFeed = GetOemDRO(818) 'Get the current feedrate.
PlateThickness = .375 'You could put your z-plate thickness here instead
ProbeFeed = 5 'You could put a probing feedrate here instead.


Code "G90 F" &ProbeFeed

If GetOemLed (825)=0 Then
Code "G4 P5" 'Time to get to the z-plate
Code "G31Z-5 F" &ProbeFeed
While IsMoving()
Wend
Code "G4 P0.25"
ZProbePos = GetVar(2002)
Code "G0 Z" &ZProbePos
While IsMoving ()
Wend
Call SetDro (2, PlateThickness)
Code "G4 P0.5" 'Pause for Dro to update.
Code "G0 Z2.0" 'Change the Z retract height here
Code "(Z axis is now zeroed)"
Code "F" &CurrentFeed
Else

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SmoothStepper USB / COMMUNICATION PROBLEM

« on: April 21, 2012, 06:48:29 PM »

Everything was working as it should,then my ESS quit communicating in the middle of the job.I can shut down and start up again and it will stop again.May be a coincidence but the last two times it stop on the same line, 332. A couple of times I ended up getting a blue screen. When I start up windows kept telling me I had new hardware to install,I checked the box that says don't show this again,I think that's when the problem started.  I do not think this is an ESS issue,but me having something configured wrong.It's almost like I run out of memory? I am running XP.
Mach ver. R3.043.062,ESS ver. v10da5.  Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong? Thanks,Tommy

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: ESS HOMING ISSUE

« on: April 14, 2012, 07:47:22 PM »

Thanks Tom,I installed the 10da5 and the issue is still the same. Gregg responded to this issue on the warp9 forum and will be working on homing and slave axis. I got the latest ver.thru your link but still can't find it my self on warp9,I'd like to know what I'm doing wrong. Thanks again for your help.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: ESS HOMING ISSUE

« on: April 14, 2012, 05:23:31 PM »

Hey Tom, Got the newest one I could find, v10da2 .Here's what happens now. X side homes like normall, but XA side homes like normal, stops where it should be,then comes back hits the home switch again, then goes back to where it should be, end result is everything ends where it should be,but with an extra step on the XA side. Maybe I will find the 10da3,Jeff's site gave me the 10da2 so I don,t know where else to look( kinda strange Warp9 would not have them on there site with the fixes the new ver. did) . Thanks again for your help, Tommy

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: ESS HOMING ISSUE

« on: April 14, 2012, 12:00:13 PM »

Thanks Tom, I will try that. Tommy

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: ESS HOMING ISSUE

« on: April 14, 2012, 10:18:02 AM »

I had mach ver, R3.042.040 but after you asked I remembered that useing the latest version was recomended. Now I have Mach ver R3.043.062 and ESS ver.ESS-v10a. I still have the same problem. Thanks,Tommy

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SmoothStepper USB / ESS HOMING ISSUE

« on: April 13, 2012, 07:37:40 PM »

I just replaced my USB SS (because of noise issues) with an ESS. I configured the ESS just like the USB SS was. Every thing works fine ,except when I home the machine Z is fine, Y is fine ,but X does the following:       X=master axis and XA=slave axis

        1st try- both homed and pulled off fine then X came back and hit the home switch again (everything works fine after this it's just not squared)
        2nd try-both homed and pulled off fine then XA came back and hit the home switch again (everything works fine after this it's just not squared  
        3rd try -both homed and pulled off fine then X came back and hit the home switch again (everything works fine after this it's just not squared

   This pattern continues,I even cut everything off and when I tried it again it picked up the pattern where it left off. I never had homing issues before.
        Thanks for any help on this  . Tommy  

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General Mach Discussion / Re: E-Stop from high pitch?

« on: December 12, 2011, 11:40:46 AM »

Thanks for your help! I went ahead and disabled all my limits in Mach3 conf. and was able to finish my cuts.Now I will go back and narrow down my problem. I love your quote,how appropriate for us that have built a CNC machine. Thanks again, Tommy