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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Blue screen probing

« on: December 30, 2012, 10:34:29 AM »

it has to be in the button scripts, maybe try pasting one of them?
John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Inch to Metric

« on: December 24, 2012, 09:43:14 PM »

You could change the "G20" at the beginning of your gcode file to "G21" and it may cut correctly.

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Fresh install of Mach3, no macros

« on: December 19, 2012, 03:41:13 PM »

did you also copy all the macros to the folder with the name of your profile in it?

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: z steper trouble

« on: December 18, 2012, 09:06:30 PM »

I did go to ports and pins and unchecked port 1. I measured pin 6 and ground to pin 25. I got a steady 0.5 MV

is port one still disabled?
I believe it would prevent mach from doing anything on that port.

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: how to setup the steps per unit in config->motor tuning

« on: December 18, 2012, 05:57:34 PM »

actually, 1/4 - 20 moves 1" in 20 turns.

so, 200 * 8 * 20 = 32000

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Xbox controller problems

« on: December 15, 2012, 09:43:53 AM »

I'm using a knockoff I got off ebay new.  Its working fine so dont give up yet.

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: add 50% jog speed button to screen

« on: December 14, 2012, 02:39:43 PM »

I think another option to accomplish same thing would be to set your jog speed to 50% and use the shift override for full speed.

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 4th Axis Addition!!!

« on: November 26, 2012, 10:40:27 PM »

have you considered adding another port and a bob just for the 4th axis, and any additional toys you might want to add?

John

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Finished Screens / Re: Mach3 2010 Screenset - Now available

« on: November 25, 2012, 08:16:18 PM »

Yes, its a rather slow old HP with half a gig of ram.  I turned off the watchdogs and that improved it but not quite so I changed the kernel speed from 35k to 25k and it hasnt done it again yet.  Fingers crossed.

Thanks a lot.

John

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Finished Screens / Re: Mach3 2010 Screenset - Now available

« on: November 25, 2012, 06:58:12 PM »

Hi, I've been playing with the probing routines, pretty slick but I'm having a problem, when I switch back to the mach3 main screen, mach blows up, displays art error code 9988 and I have to kill mach with the task manager, doesnt happen every time, but most of the time, any clue what it could be?

John