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General Mach Discussion / Re: what version for a feed hold that works

« on: August 19, 2012, 11:28:29 AM »

I was using Mach3 R3.043.022 when I found the issue, I upgraded to Mach3 R3.043.062 and it was working again.

I had previously used Mach3 R3.043.062, and had it set to 35k kernel speed, the machine was unreliable so I quickly swapped to .022 and reset kernel speed to 25k that worked for a time but I think the problem was the computer and the xp installation that created most of my issues so yesterday I reinstalled xp with .022 and then thought better of it given my issues with the feed hold.  I just dont want to invest another several hours cutting only to have some new issue raise its ugly head.

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: what version for a feed hold that works

« on: August 19, 2012, 11:13:34 AM »

I wanted to say, I upgraded to Mach3 R3.043.062, and it seems to be fixed in this release.  How stable is it?

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: what version for a feed hold that works

« on: August 19, 2012, 08:58:34 AM »

Here it is.

thanks for looking at it

John

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General Mach Discussion / what version for a feed hold that works

« on: August 18, 2012, 11:15:22 PM »

I used to use an old version of mach, when I hit feedhold I could jog away and do whatever, then hit cycle start and it would do a preperatory move and wait for cycle start. after upgrading to Mach3 R3.043.022, i find it doesnt work anymore, no preperatory move, simply executes the next block.  Which version do i need to upgrade to where this is fixed? While I'm at it, which dev version are pretty stable?

John

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Parallel port and Mach3 working but skipping steps

« on: August 10, 2012, 10:18:27 AM »

Have you run the DriverTest.exe found in the /mach3 folder?
If so, what were the results?

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Steppers making noise but shafts not rotating

« on: August 08, 2012, 01:47:42 PM »

It does sound like it, I've got the wires the wrong way round before and as Ces explained he gets the stepper jumping around at a low pulse speed- an out of phase situation.

Test for good pulses on all stepper wires.

Its easy to check too, swap the a+ and a- wires on one stepper/driver and see, you can always put them back if it doesnt make any difference, and I'll shut up.
John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Steppers making noise but shafts not rotating

« on: August 07, 2012, 10:43:42 AM »

I'm just curious, when its "whiring" have you held the shaft and does it seem to vibrate? possibly a+ and a- are reversed?

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to manually test individual Taig axis using Mach3

« on: August 02, 2012, 08:18:11 PM »

it means he had a type

ftp://ftp.machsupport.com/Docs/Mach3%20Setup%20Tutorial.pdf

here it is corrected

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: offsets

« on: July 29, 2012, 05:27:49 PM »

if you want to run a second pass a little deeper, double click on the dro and enter a value .01 higher than it currently is.

for instance if its at .08 enter .09, then when you run the next pass it will be .01 deeper

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Subroutine calls not working

« on: July 07, 2012, 03:07:11 PM »

I'm thinking your best bet would be to set mach to stop on tool change and used vectrics mach/atc post processor.

I've never done it but think it would be worth looking into it

John