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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Turning on soft limit with home button

« on: September 08, 2011, 06:28:16 PM »

I want to click one button to home the machine and turn soft limits on. I need the soft limit command to wait until the homing part of the script is complete.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Turning on soft limit with home button

« on: September 08, 2011, 05:29:34 PM »

Ok, I though it was that easy at first, I tried that (added that line to the end of the script) and though it didn't work but here is what is happening: when I first power it up and hit home I see the soft limit button flash right as it starts homing but it doesn't come on...the machine homes itself as usual. If I click it again it re-homes and the soft limits come on, if I click it again does the same and soft limits go off.

So now the script looks like this:

DoButton( 24 )
DoButton( 23 )
DoButton( 22 )
DoButton( 25 )

DoOEMButton(133)
DoOEMButton(134)
DoOEMButton(135)
 
DoOEMButton(119)

- what else do I have to add to not only wait for the wait for the homing to be complete, but to check if the soft limits were on and leave them that way and not turn them off. I want the soft limits to be on every time the machine is homed.

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VB and the development of wizards / Turning on soft limit with home button

« on: September 08, 2011, 04:41:47 PM »

What line of script do I have to add to the home button to turn soft limits on when it's done homing?

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

« on: September 08, 2011, 11:56:13 AM »

I have a Laguna Smartshop router (Industry Controls MCB-1 controller/Mach3/4 with stepper motors) and am trying to find a common ground between exact stop and constant velocity. The see the stop at angle setting and it is at 90, but that doesn't seem to do anything because I'm still left with 1/2 radius corners on 2x2 parts cuttings at 300ipm.

I use cabinet vision and aspire, cabinet vision files are almost always longer segments and arcs, but aspire turns many moves into small incremental moves and in exact stop the machine crawls and vibrates through these parts of the code. I though this might be able to be handled in the post, switching between G61 and G64 depending on the distance between points, but I'm not sure that's possible. Any advice would be appreciated.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Newbie - having trouble with simple scripts

« on: May 27, 2011, 06:23:29 PM »

Here's my M6 files, the tool change works, or at least I've never had a problem with it while running g-code. I can understand some of what I see when I open it up but most of it make little to no sense.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Newbie - having trouble with simple scripts

« on: May 27, 2011, 05:18:17 PM »

Thanks. I tried it and it's an improvement but it didn't complete the tool change before it made the g0 move back to the front of the table (the tool changer is at the rear, 4x8 machine). It's like it made the first move of the tool change script, than the g0 move in the button script, then continued with the rest of the tool change moves (from the front of the table no where near the tools).

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VB and the development of wizards / Newbie - having trouble with simple scripts

« on: May 27, 2011, 04:19:33 PM »

I'm very new to all of this. I just started using a 3-axis router with ATC and am trying to add some buttons to simplify the basic control of the machine. I added buttons on the offset page to run the g-codes for each tool change, so I don't have to type it in anymore - that was simple and worked like a charm. Now I'm trying to take it a step further add lines to lift the dust hood and move to the spot I touch off tools so I don't have to mess with that either - but it doesn't run as g-code, and then I changed it to a vb script it ran it backwards - I even rewrote it backwards but it still did the same thing - I figure it's something simple I don't know about, the lines I'm trying to run are:

M6T1
M08
G0 G53 X1 Y1