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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to make Mach 3 to stop after every G-code line?

« on: March 13, 2011, 05:02:38 AM »

Ok, yes that was what I searched for, thx

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General Mach Discussion / How to make Mach 3 to stop after every G-code line?

« on: March 12, 2011, 01:41:26 PM »

Hello I shall do a stop motion animation and I will use Mach 3 to move the camera to the right position for every single shot with the camera. Therefore I will do a G-code with the correct cordinates for the camera for every shot and the question is can I make mach 3 to stop after every G-code line so it just move the camera a tiny bit and continue to the next position when I press a button on the keyboard or so?

Thanks for helping me! 

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General Mach Discussion / 2 stepper motors to 1 port of the controller board?

« on: March 07, 2011, 06:59:11 AM »

Hello I wonder if it is a bad idé to connect two nema 23 steppermotor to one port of the controller board? I have tried it and it works if I don't drive the motors to fast. Can I harm the controller board or something else if I do like this?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: my 5 step motors acting strangely

« on: March 03, 2011, 06:15:17 PM »

Well I did change the settings back like it was and then I unplugged the wire plug on the Z motor and try it on every cable and it was always the same and when I try another motor on pin 7 and 3 it works just fine so it must be the motor I think.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: my 5 step motors acting strangely

« on: March 03, 2011, 06:03:27 PM »

No I think it is the stepper motor which is corrupt. I switched position on Z and Bs connection on the board and the problem did follow the motor

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General Mach Discussion / Re: my 5 step motors acting strangely

« on: March 03, 2011, 05:47:23 PM »

Ok, well than it is just Auto/Disable/378/278/3BC. I dont think it is the wiring of the cables because now I have switched the pins in motor outputs so Axis B got pin 7 and 3 and than that motor got the problems that the axis locks so the problem always follows the pins 3 and 7

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General Mach Discussion / Re: my 5 step motors acting strangely

« on: March 03, 2011, 05:34:59 PM »

The BIOS says parallel port mode ECP so I gues its not that but there are some other settings for the serial port in other menus like OnBoard Serial Port A: Auto/Disable/Enable. And in another sub menu I can chose Auto/Disable/378/278/3BC can it be something with this settings?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: my 5 step motors acting strangely

« on: March 03, 2011, 05:08:00 PM »

I think it might be something in mach3 that interfere with pin 7 and 3 because I have tried it on two computers and with three different cables. Is this possible?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: my 5 step motors acting strangely

« on: March 03, 2011, 02:01:00 PM »

No problem, Well I just goof around with different pins and settings in motor tuning but everything is almost like it was yesterday.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: my 5 step motors acting strangely

« on: March 03, 2011, 12:23:47 PM »

So any tip on what I shall do to make my Z axis work like the other axis?