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Mach3 and G-Rex / Re: no ip on rex

« on: April 20, 2006, 11:09:51 PM »

Judah:

  Are you using a router? I had to program my router to allow udp traffic to my computer. Prior to that I had simialr repsonce to yours. You may want to hook directly to your computer till you get it running. But you need a crossover cable, a normal cable wont connect straight to your computer.
  The led flashign means its requesting a DHCP address (and may be getting one..) so without a tracing program such as EtherReal, it can be hard to tell whats going on. You may want to download etherreal and show me a trace of all message traffic when you try conencting with Gloader. Just trace UDP messages and all you shoudl see is the G100 and your machine, it may tell us where its blcoked at right now with the normal connection..

Art

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Mach3 and G-Rex / Re: no ip on rex

« on: April 20, 2006, 10:38:17 PM »

Does the LED by the network jack flash after a powerup??

Art

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Mach Screens / Re: Screen design basics (Using Screen4)

« on: April 19, 2006, 08:33:21 AM »

Hi All:

 Bitching and frustrations aside. The basic answer here is this...

 Screen4 is a support utility. It is an advanced utility for those that can figure it out. It is a low priority development
as it is not used by 99% of users, my time is better spent elsewhere on the raft of code Im working on. I will not entertain
added features or "Nice to have's" until I get functionallity on dozens of other issues done.
  Things such as "Display of WYSIWYG type of screens is very low priority. Some explanations will be done, and some
support as well, but only on a basis of when it can be done.

  Things are happening in the background on an even newer Screen designer with more functionallity, but its being
done by third parties, so well see how it works out. As a simple programmers utility, its not well documented, or at all for
the most part, but some have made some very nice screens for themselves. Primarily , it is an OEM tool , and one that serves well
on the dozens of OEM screen sets out there that most never see.  We'll see if it can be made better over time.

    Some answers though:

  If you close a workspace view, you canot repoen it. Answer: Dont close it.

  DRO's incrementing in unison:  This is just a display function to show its a "skinned" DRO.. Used by me primarily..

 >> to the left to see the whole thing is possible using the win resize slider<->, but is not remembered the next time it's used in that run, or in the next run of the M3

   Do it twice in a row, it will then stick and be remembered..

>> here--how to use the "invisible "color" in graphics to have "holes" in the screen graphics for DRO's. And any

   Use colour 254,254,254 and that colour is invisiable and see through in bmps.. Not in other image types..

 Screen design is somethign that simply gets figured out by analysing others screens or designs and playing with whats available. Im
not free to discuss future plans, but there is much more power for screens coming in several phases. ITs one reason there are no Docs,
they would be wasted effort unitl such functionallity is available. I have committed (or should be) to more functions and screen controls,
but these are all low priority and will sit on the shelf till I catch up on more important user functionallity isssues. Many things will become available
this year for not only screen design, but user functions, but they will tend to appear all at once, as the complexity factor is increasing drastically
on the "to come" functions. I dont discuss them openly as the design specs are changing dynamically as they are being done..

  We will however, strive to answer functionallity questions, feature requests on screens though, will be noted, and shelved until they can be worked on..

Thanks
Art

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: LaxyCAM ActiveX / COM control from VBA

« on: April 18, 2006, 07:05:47 PM »

Hi James:

   I guess what you need is to have LazyCam act as a Com object for command transfers. I cant promise that too quickly. Quite possible, but its a bit of work to convert it to com and add the appropriate hooks.. Perhaps in a few weeks I can commit to give it a go. I suspect sometime in late may before I can really do it though. But it does sound like a good idea..

Art

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Works in progress / Re: An unfinished screen set - "Mach Blue"

« on: April 16, 2006, 09:51:33 PM »

I LOVE these screens..  Keep it up... PLEASE!!! ..

Art

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help! Mach 3 (and 2) Pulse Frequency and "Dbl Plse" not stable

« on: April 12, 2006, 02:41:41 PM »

Colin:

 The double pulse really shows you nothin at all, its an indicator to me of the internals of the engine, sometimes it will fly around, sometimes not. You can totally ignore it, its not a bad sign no matter what its doing, but the 3 pulse variation is a pretty good sign..

Art

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help! Mach 3 (and 2) Pulse Frequency and "Dbl Plse" not stable

« on: April 12, 2006, 07:54:02 AM »

Hi:

 Yup, this does sound liek either a donbgle program driver, or a process inetrference. The fact its worse on 45Khz means that the computer is struggling. Try turning off EVERYTHING in the msconfig/startup tab. This can often fix this...

Art

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Message line="Safe Z turned off-ignoring safe z move" but it's not turned off

« on: April 12, 2006, 06:34:37 AM »

Hi Sid:

  I suspect the problem is the rather limited intelligence of the algorithm. First, Safe_Z is in machien coordinates, so a setting of +.5 is usually impossible for it to get to. Set it to -1 and I suspect it will work better for you. The other problem is that this is true only if a system is homed. If the system is not homed, then the safe_Z dro is in relative cooridnates, so a setting of +.5 woudl just moveit up by 1/2" . I suspect when it works for you, your not homes, and when it fails, you are homed, but the setting is wrong. Since Z (in maqchien coordinates) only moves from 0 downwards, the setting shoudl eb a negative one.
  Ill be revisiting this in the near future, Safe_Z is due for a drastic rewrite..

Thanks for the observations...

Art

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Message line="Safe Z turned off-ignoring safe z move" but it's not turned off

« on: April 11, 2006, 10:01:10 PM »

Hi:

  Are the axis homes and green when doing this..?

Thanks
Art

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Works in progress / Re: New 3 Axis and 5 axis Screen

« on: April 10, 2006, 07:50:24 AM »

I agree. Well done. The buttons are excellent. Nice to see the designer being used by people with some talent in that area..

Art