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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Knee Mill Conversion?

« on: January 28, 2018, 01:35:22 PM »

glad to read, that i was able to set the "correct Trigger". 

Thomas

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Knee Mill Conversion?

« on: January 28, 2018, 07:25:38 AM »

If i leave setcurrenttool out, any idea what would happen??

i think, as far i have walked through your code,it will work like you expected,
because the TLC is done by your c-axis.

Thomas

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Knee Mill Conversion?

« on: January 28, 2018, 07:22:35 AM »

do a little test to see what Setcurrenttool does.


-load 1024.set
-put in the tooltable  height 10.0 for tool1
-enter tool 0 in the tool Information dro
-push zerro z button
-enter tool 1 in the tool Information dro
-watch z coordinates

Thomas

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Knee Mill Conversion?

« on: January 28, 2018, 07:11:13 AM »

hi,

is it possible that your are doing th TLC twice ?

1. with the c-axis (knee)
2. SetCurrentTool(Tool) (m3 internal TLC)

just thinking while i went through your post's.

Thomas

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Feature Requests / Re: Commission work, Macro needed please help!

« on: January 23, 2018, 03:39:30 PM »

hello Anna,

if you can provide a "little" (just a little bit) bit more information about:
-you're machine
-you're Hardware
-you're requiremen's

it will be easier for someone to write a "macro".

sorry Tom

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Is Mach4 really Hobby Material?

« on: January 23, 2018, 03:28:24 PM »

Sorry guy's,

that i have to disturb.

you are talking here about 200-300-400$ Software, not about "real" (sorry to use this word),
CNC controllers (10000-20000$ aeria).

Tom

PS that is all "nice to have" option

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Knee Mill Conversion?

« on: January 23, 2018, 03:18:28 PM »

Hello,
had the same thing with this ePid fault.

i can see you are using CSLAB as well.

here the original answer from CSLAB as i went into this ePid Thing:

--- This fault can be activated by:
---  Bad Mach3 version. Bersions newer that 03.043.045 of Mach3 can cause ePID fault.
--- We recommend to use versions of Mach3 03.043.022 to 03.043.044. We always use 03.043.022 version as it's the most reliable in our opinion.

regards Tom

PS i "downgraded" to 03.043.022 and the ePid Thing is gone

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HiCON Motion Controller / Re: Need spindle orientation for tool changer

« on: January 23, 2018, 09:38:50 AM »

Hello,
had a quick look to S600 Manual. it has a internal Position control.
maybe you can use this, an enable the positioning via digital Input.
Do the feedback (in Position) via digital Output.
thats how i did it on my machine, but with a Lenze 8400 Topline
controller.

Tom

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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Re: Custom Screen

« on: January 20, 2018, 05:23:44 AM »

can you post your design, and then let's see how "complicated" it will be:

Thomas

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CS-Lab / Re: CSMIO-ENC Spindle Orientation

« on: January 09, 2018, 09:02:44 AM »

Hello LM941,

did you ever get the spindle orientation running ?
i am in the same Situation now.

Thank You Thomas.