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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Servos Motors/Drives & ESS Smoothstepper/Mach4 communication (Encoder Feedback)
« on: July 29, 2019, 04:59:52 PM »
I am going to have to learn the Lua to some extent anyway or at least muddle through to get what I need to work. I will have to write something to control my tool change since the VB script I wrote will not be able to port over I assume.
If your going to have buttons and switches and jog physical buttons aside from a pendant, it seems like you are going to have to do this eventually or be stuck on Mach3 forever.
I also want to use the probing stuff and two probe inputs (I think I can have my tool height setter and 3d probe work with separate inputs in mach 4?). I know there is a workaround for mach 3 on one port, but rather than shorting out my 3D probe connection port when it is not connected to keep the tool height setter functional, having them separate would be nice.
I am just not that invested in mach3 operation at this point. Even though I built the machine, wrote the tool change thing, and got all this crap running. I have only made a couple parts with this thing, so I have very little time invested in actually using Mach3 to make stuff. All my time was spent just getting it going and then the machine sat for long periods of time unused.
Also, I am building another CNC machine....so I kinda need to get up to date. I don't want to keep learning on Mach3 and getting more and more invested into it. It seems silly to learn a ton more on mach3 when I still have a lot to learn. I think I would rather do a little reset at this point, get going on mach4, and spend my time learning something current.
By the time I get up to speed on Mach4 something else will be out better LOL. Too many hobbies & too much time working gets in the way big time!
If your going to have buttons and switches and jog physical buttons aside from a pendant, it seems like you are going to have to do this eventually or be stuck on Mach3 forever.
I also want to use the probing stuff and two probe inputs (I think I can have my tool height setter and 3d probe work with separate inputs in mach 4?). I know there is a workaround for mach 3 on one port, but rather than shorting out my 3D probe connection port when it is not connected to keep the tool height setter functional, having them separate would be nice.
I am just not that invested in mach3 operation at this point. Even though I built the machine, wrote the tool change thing, and got all this crap running. I have only made a couple parts with this thing, so I have very little time invested in actually using Mach3 to make stuff. All my time was spent just getting it going and then the machine sat for long periods of time unused.
Also, I am building another CNC machine....so I kinda need to get up to date. I don't want to keep learning on Mach3 and getting more and more invested into it. It seems silly to learn a ton more on mach3 when I still have a lot to learn. I think I would rather do a little reset at this point, get going on mach4, and spend my time learning something current.
By the time I get up to speed on Mach4 something else will be out better LOL. Too many hobbies & too much time working gets in the way big time!