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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: tool height probing

« on: July 06, 2015, 05:34:15 PM »

well it`s still not quite right it comes up with this now

mcLua ERROR: Lua: Error while running chunk
[string "C:\Mach4Hobby\LuaExamples\m1005.mcs"]:27: bad argument #2 to 'tonumber' (base out of range)
stack traceback:
   [C]: in function 'tonumber'
   [string "C:\Mach4Hobby\LuaExamples\m1005.mcs"]:27: in function 'GetRegister'
   [string "C:\Mach4Hobby\LuaExamples\m1005.mcs"]:45: in function 'm1005'
   [string "C:\Mach4Hobby\LuaExamples\m1005.mcs"]:112: in main chunk


mcLua ERROR: Lua: Error while running chunk

I changed this

function GetRegister(regname, num)--Added the return type def param
      local rc;
      local inst = mc.mcGetInstance();
      local hreg = mc.mcRegGetHandle(inst, string.format("iRegs0/%s", regname));
      local ReturnValue = 0;
      if num == 1 then
         ReturnValue = tonumber(mc.mcRegGetValueString(hreg));
      else
         ReturnValue = mc.mcRegGetValueString(hreg);
      end
        return ReturnValue;
      end

back to this
function GetRegister(regname)
local inst = mc.mcGetInstance()
local hreg = mc.mcRegGetHandle(inst, string.format("iRegs0/%s", regname))
return mc.mcRegGetValueString(hreg)
end

and ran through fine but still with the no probe contact error

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: tool height probing

« on: July 06, 2015, 03:10:34 PM »

thanks scott that was a simple one

623

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Line following (tracing)

« on: July 05, 2015, 03:14:56 PM »

that`s good to know BR549

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Line following (tracing)

« on: July 05, 2015, 10:19:24 AM »

there are a lot of ways to do it trace is as accurate as the person doing it, a camera can be zoomed right into the line and used to find center of holes it`s all down to the budget there are a number of free one`s out there

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MDI input (Abs & Inc) through DRO to move axis....a working example

« on: July 03, 2015, 09:35:08 PM »

you can set toggle buttons to do stuff on up and down click, change color, different wording, flash they are quite fun to play with you could have I am not homed, then have I am homed anything really.
but you wont to keep it as simple as possible if there is a function built in to the button or what ever use that save`s have to use code.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Custom DRO script

« on: July 03, 2015, 07:21:57 PM »

he will run in to the same problem I had SL with the laser zero while statement.

action, while, if, zero unless you can come up with a way around it I could not

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: tool height probing

« on: July 03, 2015, 03:10:35 AM »

I give up

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MDI input (Abs & Inc) through DRO to move axis....a working example

« on: July 02, 2015, 10:16:55 PM »

to find what G is working  type it in to the MDI

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Custom DRO script

« on: July 02, 2015, 09:53:58 PM »

you need to zero the dro using it`s name and a if statement

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MDI input (Abs & Inc) through DRO to move axis....a working example

« on: July 02, 2015, 09:48:56 PM »

it`s name needs to be the same as the scr.GetProperty