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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: The great screen debate

« on: August 30, 2015, 10:39:10 PM »

your right it does not show, but it is doing what it is meant to. I don`t think that`s been done yet ask the mach support team

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: The great screen debate

« on: August 30, 2015, 07:36:40 PM »

Chaoticone on the work DRO`s for A,B and c it wont show units but in machine DRO`S it will show units

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: The great screen debate

« on: August 30, 2015, 07:34:23 PM »

look at the last screen set Chaoticone posted

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General Mach Discussion / Re: One physical switch as end switch and ref

« on: August 30, 2015, 01:44:23 AM »

correct but your lowest point is table top you home Z to the highest point of your Z axis what is up + not down -. home = machine position at the extremes of the machine`s travel in all axis in the - for x and y and + for z. so it left front or back corner at the extremes of the machine travel.

work is where the work pieces is relative to machine Zero.

but this is about Mach control of homing what need`s to be set correct for it to work in the first place, if it is set correct and plays up something else can be wrong. I have home/limits on the same switch it works fine

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Probing on new Mach 4 screens

« on: August 29, 2015, 09:32:50 PM »

I have not had time to test it my self try G31 it shows in the .ini file what you set it to

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Probing on new Mach 4 screens

« on: August 29, 2015, 08:37:28 PM »

have set it up, button to the right of auto home button. auto tool setting`s

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General Mach Discussion / Re: One physical switch as end switch and ref

« on: August 29, 2015, 08:34:36 PM »

I cannot find the error... Mach3 recognizes both switch states but does fire an emergency stop when homing.

My setup:
Z zero is 0 at the highest and 260mm at the lowest point
Z Axis with two inductive switches one on ++ (Bottom of axis) and one on -- (Top of axis)

My configuration
Pins >> Z++ Pin 2, Z-- Pin 3, Z Home Pin 2
Homing&Limits >> SoftMax: 0.00; SoftMin: -260.00, Home NEG and Auto Zero enabled  (Z home is + not -) and Z only needs a + limit, home switch the - is a wast of time not needed.

Homing
When homing, both M3++ Limit and M3Home light up, followed by an immediate emergency stop.

When I disable the home switch under ports and pins, homing works fine.
The end switch functionality in general always works.

and do what HOOD says

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 or Mach4 whitch one should i use?

« on: August 29, 2015, 08:28:36 PM »

the ESS plug only works on a real machine you can`t sim it. and yes it works fine it`s a pitta to set up you have to set it up in the correct order other wise it`s a killer.

you just make sure before you start that only axis 0, 1 and 2 are ticked or nothing set at all, you set the E STOP first then axis if everything is fine after that you set inputs and outputs you do a restart of mach each it time you do setting changes

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: DRO unit display

« on: August 29, 2015, 08:21:38 PM »

they are set to not show it because they move in digress around around not straight. I asked mach support about it, it was a wast of time asking them they had no clue it does not matter anyway they are set correctly if you are in mm or in anyway, but the rest show units just not A, B and C.

you can get extents to show units on all letter axis`s

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General Mach Discussion / Re: One physical switch as end switch and ref

« on: August 29, 2015, 06:28:15 AM »

it should not matter when you are homing if the same switch is set as a limit switch as its looking for home nothing else mach takes care of that, if it is a problem you have something wrong