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VB and the development of wizards / Re: How do I detect a jog system hotkey was pressed?

« on: September 04, 2010, 12:16:55 PM »

>Put the VB code in the Jog Buttons you want to watch in screen designer, including the DoOEMButton code for the jog button so it all runs in VB.
>you can still set a "HOT KEY" that will activate the button itself.

I'll try that.

Thanks for all the replies!
Luis

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VB and the development of wizards / How do I detect a jog system hotkey was pressed?

« on: August 26, 2010, 09:20:43 PM »

Hi!
I want to detect when a jog system keystroke was pressed in order to run a macro before the actual jog is performed for security reasons.
In other words: run a script when a certain keyboard keystroke used as hotkey was made.
Is this possible?

Thanks!
Luis

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Spanish / Re: Problema raro como si perdiera pasos, pero no es eso

« on: August 26, 2010, 04:12:19 PM »

Hola,
El problema en efecto pareciera ser que el "stepper" está perdiendo pasos, posiblemente debido a secciones en el código en el que requiere más aceleración de la que tiene capacidad. Posiblemente se da en las secciones con segmentos de código muy pequeños y posiblemente tiene que cambiar de sentido.

Yo intentaría simplemente correr todo el código a una velocidad mucho más lenta (por decir algo, un 30% de la velocidad actual) y quizá bajar la aceleración de los motores en "motor tunning".  Si la pieza queda bien, entonces se ha descartado cualquier problema de código, CAM o post-procesador y las probabilidades de que el problema sea el que indico serían bastante altas.

Ahí se comenta luego como le fue con la prueba.

Saludos desde Costa Rica!
Luis fdo.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: How to ignore macros (M calls) in Run from here mode?

« on: August 23, 2010, 06:23:02 PM »

Used a UserLED.
Worked fine.

Thanks,
Luis

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Galil / Re: Should abort give an EStop in Mach?

« on: August 23, 2010, 06:20:08 PM »

Thanks for your reply!
I do have the Error output jumpered to an input and now I also jumpered the Abort line to the same line (being both TTL) and got it working.

It would be much better though to have Galil comunicating the Abort or Error condition by default and not need to "waste" a hardware Input.  Should be the same way as the home and limit inputs).

Luis
 

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Galil / Should abort give an EStop in Mach?

« on: August 20, 2010, 12:23:02 PM »

Hi everyone,
I have several protections connected to the Abort of the Galil controller but when there the Galil is in Abort the Mach3 doesn't notice.  I suppose an abort from the controller should give an E-Stop in the Mach3 but it doesn't.  How can I achieve this?

Thanks!

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VB and the development of wizards / How to ignore macros (M calls) in Run from here mode?

« on: August 18, 2010, 01:58:48 PM »

Hi!
In general config there is an option for Ignoring M calls while loading program which works great.
But Mach still runs M code macros when simulating in "run from here".
Anyone knows how to disable the macros in this case?

Thanks!
Luis fdo.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: How to run a script after each Gcode in single step mode

« on: June 30, 2010, 11:38:22 AM »

Hi Zafar,
Thanks for your tip!

I like the screen, is it your design?  Could I use it for a fee?
I was thinking to use the plasma screen.

Luis

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: How to run a script after each Gcode in single step mode

« on: June 22, 2010, 07:24:40 PM »

Great tip,
Thanks!

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: How to run a script after each Gcode in single step mode

« on: June 22, 2010, 04:59:44 PM »

X2.000 Y2.000        move           
M25                      PUNCH
X3.000 Y3.000        move         
M25                      PUNCH

Is it possible to tell typical CAM software to write down a M25 (or whatever) after every G00 code ??
If not, this would be quite a pain to do manually.