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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: July 05, 2014, 08:05:06 PM »
art cannot get Darwin to work with build 1872 on win xp
build 1767 does work on win xp.
and when I load up the new Darwin it does not show up under plugins its just a blank space and the machine freezes.
when i reload build 1767 and old version of Darwin it comes right.
could just be the computer will do more testing to day.
other than that Darwin is the best thing since sliced bread

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: June 09, 2014, 06:35:29 PM »
 :) :)

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: June 09, 2014, 05:19:36 PM »
art when I was adjusting the pules rate the machine sounded a lot smother is it just me or what,
also does the Darwin plug in support the spindle

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: June 08, 2014, 05:16:40 PM »
ill try in older version see if that helps

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: June 08, 2014, 05:04:18 PM »
hi art I played with Darwin last night on the latest version of Mach4 it worked just took a lot of farting around to get to stay stable. crashed a lot. I just had to start slowly bring up the pulse rate and speed at the same time, I got it to run at 500mm/min with a pulses rate of 3700, that needs to go higher yet.
its running on a very old win XP computer that is half of the problem.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Loading SUBS or G65 macro
« on: June 06, 2014, 05:36:14 PM »
i have been playing with the macros i have found that there is a lot of changes to to get fanuc macro to work.
I then had a look at the haas macro and they work really well just one or two simple changes to do to get them to work.

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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

try this one it has work for 2 years with out any problems

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Bug Reports
« on: May 20, 2014, 04:52:53 PM »
Mach4 does not like metric it goes mad

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do a search through this site the information is there you just need to look for it

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it could be your computer not playing nicely with mach3.
use the recommended version of mach3 in the ess manual could help to