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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tweaking constant velocity mode (laguna smartshop)

« on: October 03, 2011, 03:55:33 PM »

Where do I find the acceleration settings and how do they work? I'm running a file and the results are good, but the file consists of long curves and small loops and u-turn moves, I would like to keep the feed rate at 400 ipm since most of the work is longer lines and the machine is more than capable of doing that, but at 200+ I think that machine is handling the small moves too fast and I'm getting more jerk and vibration than I want, but I don't want to slow down the whole program. If there is something else that might help resolve this situation I'm open to other suggestions.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Keeping track of machine and tool use

« on: October 03, 2011, 03:18:43 PM »

I found this thread http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,14864.0.html and it's enough to get me started....but I don't see any of the values in the maintenance window listed as DROs anywhere - am I missing something?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Adding a physical button to control outputs

« on: October 02, 2011, 11:49:00 PM »

I've been playing with the brain part of the software and have a situation: I setup a brain that reads the Y position DRO, so that when the machine is away from the work area and near the tools the dust hood (flood) is up (enabled). Doing this overrides the flood toggle so that the dust hood is either up or down depending on the machine location, is there a way around this so it only locks the dust hood up when it's by the tools but the rest of the machine you can toggle it up or down?

I wanted to setup another one kept the dust hood up if the tool is under a certain length, but I suspect I'll have the same problem. (when using a tool longer then the set length the hood would be stuck down...)

Also whenever I go to brain control and load any brain I get a Bad XML read but they still seem to work....any ideas on that?

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General Mach Discussion / Keeping track of machine and tool use

« on: October 02, 2011, 09:46:23 PM »

Is anything available for mach that lets you keep track of machine hours or distance traveled, what programs are run and when, time and travel of different tools used?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Adding a physical button to control outputs

« on: September 30, 2011, 10:15:18 AM »

The dust hood is setup using the 'flood coolant' button and is triggered by M8, I'm trying to operate it right from spindle location, either toggling it up/down or having it to where the button raises the hood and overrides the code.

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General Mach Discussion / Adding a physical button to control outputs

« on: September 30, 2011, 12:28:05 AM »

How do would I go about setting up a button that would turn an output on and off? I would like to add a button to control the air solenoid for my dust hood, the solenoid is using 2 wires on a 3 conductor wire...it would be nice if I was able to utilize that unused wire instead of running a new one. I know how to setup an input but how do I get it to control the output? Also, if I used a button that sticks instead of a momentary one is there a way that it could override the output on/off code and make sure the dust hood stays up when it's depressed?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Double check when measuring tool

« on: September 29, 2011, 01:45:17 PM »

Thanks guys! Works great now. The 'CodeSingle'...that's just the way the software came setup. I'm running an Industry Control MCB-1 and it uses a modified version of Mach, under the version it says R4.000.000 Test...anyway, I've attached the finished file with corrections if anyone else is interested in it.

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General Mach Discussion / Double check when measuring tool

« on: September 29, 2011, 01:31:06 AM »

I have my router setup to measure tools from a fixed switch. I'm trying to modify it to where it touches twice, compares the values, and let's me know if it's out more than .002 off, then I want a message box to pop up with the difference in it. I'm getting a syntax error, probably something simple...

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VB and the development of wizards / Turning a macro to a M - code

« on: September 28, 2011, 05:18:17 PM »

How do I make a macro I wrote executable by using M??? in the g-code?

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Script for air pressure sensor

« on: September 22, 2011, 12:20:03 PM »

Have a look at what I did, it appears to be working:


'*************CheckAirPressure*****************************
If GetOEMLED (824) Then
MsgBox("Low Air Pressure Alert  Fix Problem and PRESS (OK)")
   If GetOEMLED (824) Then
   MsgBox("Problem not fixed, try again")
   End If
   If GetOEMLED (824) Then
   MsgBox("Problem not fixed, canceling routine")
   DOButton(1)
   While Ismoving()
   Wend
   Dobutton(3)
   While Ismoving()
   Wend
   DoOembutton(1003)
   End
   Else
   End If
End If
'**********************************************************

In fooling with this I discovered my HSD spindle has signal wires for tool-in-spindle and drawbar open, as well as a pin labeled 'thermal alarm'...know anything about those? I see the wires are already ran to the control cabinet but just not connected to anything. I see a line disabled in the tool change sript: 'SystemWaitFor (7) 'Wait for the tool Release Limit switch - I'm not sure what that's meant to do besides wait but I was thinking I could work scripts similar to the air pressure switch one to make sure the draw bar opens and the spindle is empty before picking up the next tool if I figure out how to get those two wires talking to the inputs.