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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: December 19, 2014, 09:41:04 PM »

you got it in the end. that's all right I could not get my laser controller going last week I did not hock up the common from bob to arduino that's a trucken nob thing to do but it help everyone else in the end

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: PHOTOvCARVE problems!!

« on: December 19, 2014, 07:20:30 PM »

could find no problems there before you give up have you posted this to vectric forum.

also do you have another computer you can run mach3 on I am asking this so if you do set up mach3 on it with your profile run a sim of the cut on another computer if this problem is still there its your settings if not its your computer running the machine.

if you don't post your xml so I am running the same config as your machine its going to be the only way to see where the problem is coming from don't give up yet lets just do this test.

as some computer seem to run like a bag of poo and have all sort`s of different problems running mach3 the computer on my big machine has to be started twice to work as it should.
my other machine has never had any problems running what ever version of mach3 or what ever xml on put on it.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: PHOTOvCARVE problems!!

« on: December 19, 2014, 06:11:33 PM »

you cant post .pvc files on here just put it in a zip file and post it.

I had a look at the first .txt file you posted it did it for me simulating it, going up and down with not going anywhere so there is a problem with photovcarve or M3 settings.

the cat one did not have any problems try setting the line angle to 90 not 30 see if this helps it could just be a combination of tool, cut angle and what's at the start point makeing your machine to have a mental

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: December 19, 2014, 05:20:32 AM »

make youtube your friend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6SU5JVTpik

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: PHOTOvCARVE problems!!

« on: December 19, 2014, 02:32:56 AM »

are you running your machine in metric or inch

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: PHOTOvCARVE problems!!

« on: December 19, 2014, 02:23:37 AM »

the pic file you use to make the code

take it all the way through to you make the G code save it and post the resulting file it will have all your settings on it

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: PHOTOvCARVE problems!!

« on: December 19, 2014, 01:36:30 AM »

looked at vid that's wrong pop you pic flie up I would like to look at not the gcode the whole thing

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: PHOTOvCARVE problems!!

« on: December 19, 2014, 01:32:59 AM »

sound more like you have the settings wrong in photo vcarve the work hight could be wrong I use photo vcarve never had this problem

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: PHOTOvCARVE problems!!

« on: December 19, 2014, 12:04:41 AM »

try slowing your machine down make sure it calibrated first

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problem zeroing after tool change... using BigTex Screen

« on: December 16, 2014, 11:43:04 PM »

its for metric but it easy to change to inch.

just use edit button scripts select the Z- button delete what's in there and copy and past new code in

Code: [Select]

Rem Auto Tool Zero Z- Metric Version

DownStroke = -25 'Set the down stroke to find probe
DownFeedRate = 100 'Set the down FeedRate
RetractStroke = 10 'Set the retract Stroke
RetractFeedRate = 300 'Set the retract FeedRate

CurrentFeed = GetOemDRO(818) 'Get the current feedrate to return to later
CurrentAbsInc = GetOemLED(48) 'Get the current G90/G91 state
CurrentGmode = GetOemDRO(819) 'Get the current G0/G1 state
PlateThickness = GetUserDRO(1151) 'Z-plate thickness DRO

If GetOemLed (825)=0 Then 'Check to see if the probe is already grounded or faulty
DoOEMButton (1010) 'zero the Z axis so the probe move will start from here
Code "G4 P2" ' this delay gives me time to get from computer to hold probe in place
Code "G90 G31 Z" &DownStroke &" F" &DownFeedRate 'probing move
While IsMoving() 'wait while it happens
Wend
ZProbePos = GetVar(2002) 'get the axact point the probe was hit
If Abs(ZprobePos) <= Abs(DownStroke)-0.1 Then 'Check if the probe has been found
Code "G0 Z" &ZProbePos 'go back to that point, always a very small amount of overrun
While IsMoving ()
Wend
Call SetDro (2, PlateThickness) 'set the Z axis DRO to whatever is set as plate thickness
Code "G4 P0.25" 'Pause for Dro to update.
Code "G1 Z" &PlateThickness + RetractStroke &" F" &RetractFeedRate 'retract
While IsMoving ()
Wend
Code "(Z axis is now zeroed)" 'puts this message in the status bar
Else
Code "G0 Z0" 'retract to start pos
While IsMoving ()
Wend
Code "(Z-Plate not found, check connection or stroke and try again)" 'puts this message in the status bar
End If
Else
Code "(Z-Plate is grounded, check connection and try again)" 'this goes in the status bar if aplicable
End If
Code "F" &CurrentFeed 'Returns to prior feed rate
If CurrentAbsInc = 0 Then 'if G91 was in effect before then return to it
Code "G91"
End If
If CurrentGMode = 0 Then 'if G0 was in effect before then return to it
Code "G0"
End If
Exit Sub 
I have been using for 3 years with no problems