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General Mach Discussion / Re: zero setting changes after running program

« on: February 06, 2021, 08:12:42 AM »

are only the displayed values on Screen not Zero, or is the machine physicaly not at Zero?

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: NOOB with a gcode question...?

« on: February 05, 2021, 01:56:04 AM »

Vectric did.

N140 is the code to initiate toolchange
N160 is the code to activate tool length compensation

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: NOOB with a gcode question...?

« on: February 05, 2021, 01:41:25 AM »

if you are not working with toolchange and tool length compensation you can delete line N140 and N160 completly.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Won’t finish homing

« on: February 05, 2021, 01:37:14 AM »

have you tryed to go to diagnostic Screen an reference axis by axis seperatly?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 problems with Windows 10 updates

« on: February 04, 2021, 01:27:09 AM »

https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=37291.0

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New member, some mach 3 setup questions and UC100 intermittent connection issue

« on: February 04, 2021, 01:25:47 AM »

ok, it depends allways a bit on the need's and on the Money you want to spend, but IMHO good choises are:

-UC300Eth
-Uc400Eth
-AXBB-E
-all hicon Controllers
-PoKeys57CNC
-CSLab (only Mach3 or their own product SimCNC)

this is only my small list of controller's, i have only experience with CSLab, witch i use on all my machines.
the rest is only based on what i see (read) here in the Forum.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Mach3 CSMIO 4KW Spindel mit ISO20 Aufnahme, werkzeugwechsel

« on: February 03, 2021, 12:52:49 PM »

mir ist noch was aufgefallen,
es gibt bei Config -> Ports&Pins -> Input signals gar keinen Input7?
Oder Input 7 an der CSMIO ?

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Mach3 CSMIO 4KW Spindel mit ISO20 Aufnahme, werkzeugwechsel

« on: February 03, 2021, 12:48:04 PM »

also, wenn Du jetzt auf den Taster drückst (Eingang7) und dann das Ventil (Ausgang1) angesteuert wird,
muß es da schon was geben.

Der erste Verdächtige wäre der macropump script, das solltest Du in

C:\Mach3\macros\dein Profilname

finden, und mit einem Texteditor (Notepad) öffnen können. Wenn es vorhanden ist poste bitte den Inhalt hier.
Du kannst auch mal unter Config->General Config die Einstellung für Run macro pump prüfen.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Mach3 CSMIO 4KW Spindel mit ISO20 Aufnahme, werkzeugwechsel

« on: February 03, 2021, 12:38:07 PM »

eigentlich muß es schon einen script oder brain geben, das den Ausgang1 ansteuert?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New member, some mach 3 setup questions and UC100 intermittent connection issue

« on: February 03, 2021, 11:16:32 AM »

I have some general questions, and a specific one related to an issue we are having.

1.  Is there a guide for setting up the machine coordinate system and homing functions?  Currently we have none of that setup, we just zero to somewhere on the stock or part, make sure that location is zero in the CAM software (Fusion 360), and rock and roll.  I'd like to have it setup correctly though, and I do not really know where to start.  The machine has switches for x y and z but they currently do nothing.

2. Is there are best practices document somewhere, and/or a tuning guide for setting all the parameters in mach 3?

for 1. and 2. this two documents would be a good start i think:
https://www.machsupport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Mach3Mill_Install_Config.pdf
https://www.machsupport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Mach3Mill_1.84.pdf

Specific question about an issue:

1.  We have an intermittent UC100 connection issue.  It will either have a sync error, or fully lose connection maybe once every other day (every 3-4 machine hours).  I have taken the following steps to reduce the noise seen by the UC100 and USB cable.
     a. double ferrite bead USB cable
     b. VFD for spindle is in a thick steel box
     c. UC100 chassis is grounded to computer chassis
     d. Ensure USB power settings are not putting ports to sleep

Since doing these, the problem happens less frequently, but it still happens and is unacceptable.  It also happened with the laptop we were using. I need a robust solution.  This computer does not have a serial port.  Please advise.

here you write: I Need a robust solution.
the "hard" answer is, throw this USB Thing out and go to a Ethernet connected Controller, but Keep fingers away
of all this chinese chunk.