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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: June 01, 2015, 09:00:34 PM »

hi art I got my computer back I tried updating M4 and Darwin past version M4 2136 and Darwin version 2157 it wont work I installed VC2013 that did not help, GSim crashes M4.

just for fun I installed gearrotic that wont run at all.

is there any other thing I could install to help with this

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Bug Reports

« on: May 31, 2015, 05:05:16 PM »

there no change log of use to see

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: need a little bit of help

« on: May 31, 2015, 07:53:56 AM »

thanks ger I for got to say its in a button my bad

it has to be mc.mcCntlGcodeExecute had a mistake in the string thank you, you know who you are.

made a change to this rc = mc.mcCntlGcodeExecute(inst, "G91 G0 \n" .. Xmove .. " G91 G0 \n" .. Ymove); it will be something that needs to go in here just need to look through the example`s again and the M3 code what you did I think, to look at the lay out. it took me 4 months to get this far with the code and me saying to someone use the log when testing code did it my self hell it cant work when you have Xx 20 and Yy10. fun fun

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Mach4 General Discussion / need a little bit of help

« on: May 31, 2015, 04:04:40 AM »

I am trying to get my code for Laser Zero working properly I have it so it turn the output on/off (will have a Laser on button that's easy) then move to require position.

then what I would like is for it to zero out the axis`s it does not do it in the correct order it zero`s the axis first before the required move.

I am using

mc.mcAxisSetPos(inst, 0, 0.000)
mc.mcAxisSetPos(inst, 1, 0.000)

to zero the axis`s

this is the code
--Laser Zero

local inst = mc.mcGetInstance();  --Get the instance of the controller
local out5= mc.mcSignalGetHandle(inst, mc.OSIG_OUTPUT5);  --Get the out5 handle
local outstate = mc.mcSignalGetState(out5); --Output TOGGLE
   if (outstate == 1) then
       mc.mcSignalSetState(out5, false);
     else
       mc.mcSignalSetState(out5, true);
    end

local inst = 0;
local rc = 0;
local Xmove = "X2";
local Ymove = "Y3";
    rc = mc.mcCntlGcodeExecute(inst, "G91 G0 \n" .. Xmove .. " G91 G0 \n" .. Ymove);

    mc.mcAxisSetPos(inst, 0, 0.000)
    mc.mcAxisSetPos(inst, 1, 0.000)

if (mc.mcInEditor() == 1) then
end

can some one point me to what I should use or what am I doing wrong

thank

pain in the a

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: ESS and poor motor response

« on: May 30, 2015, 08:35:45 PM »

have you got the motors set correctly in ESS setup if you have them set wrong it can make them run like a bag of ********* as in this

If the SmoothStepper has its 'Max Step Frequency' set too high for an axis it will limit the output resolution for that axis.

You can get an idea of what this frequency should be set to by knowing your steps/unit and max velocity.

Steps/Unit * Units/Min = Steps/Min Steps/Min / 60 = Steps/Second (or Max Step Frequency)

This Steps/Second is the needed step frequency for that Axis, you should set the SmoothStepper’s 'Max Step Frequency' to the lowest value that is equal to or greater than your Steps/Second.

Once you get all your axis' 'Max Step Frequency' set, adjust the 'Controller Frequency' to the lowest value that proved Smooth movement, the note on the SmoothStepper configuration page says higher settings will limit resolution.

I have attached the new ESS manual

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Feature Request

« on: May 30, 2015, 08:29:49 PM »

puts this in bug reports silly question did you save first before closeing

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Screwie Louie mcLua scripting for screwie lua learning

« on: May 30, 2015, 08:05:52 PM »

works good just tried it

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Feature Request

« on: May 30, 2015, 07:54:25 PM »

a blank page that I added to, the bit at the bottom was there whats on all pages, if that's what you mean there is a problem with the new versions of M4 it don't like winxp

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Feature Request

« on: May 30, 2015, 06:53:22 PM »

just you just tried its fine

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: G31.1, G31.2, G31.3 working?

« on: May 30, 2015, 06:51:26 PM »

just one thing M needs to be m