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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: January 03, 2015, 12:23:29 PM »

Do you have Diagnostics/Darwin Printer Port set up as shown?

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: January 03, 2015, 08:28:03 AM »

Hello:

>>1, the spindle speed in Darwin and mach4 can not PWM output,
  Give me cry installation files. Or let me know how to set up.

   In Darwin, you need to turn on an output and name it Spindle( for example).
In Mach4, use the menu item "Diagnostic/Darwin and select PWM as the Spindle
Type. Set the frequency to 50hz ( or whatever you need). Also turn on Debug messages.
  In Mach4, select Config/Mach and go to the Spindle Tab. Set Spindle #0 minimum to 0 and Max to your
real max spindle speed. Set the botom box also to max spindle speed.

  Thats it, If you issue a M3Sxx , your PWM should be on the pin you selected for Spindle
 in Darwin. Debug mesages will show in the error line at bottom of screen where Darwin will tell
you what its doing.

Thx
Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: January 02, 2015, 01:20:32 PM »

Hi Guys:

  Scott and I just ran a couepl of tests to test Win7 which was reporting errors on some system with Darwin.
They failed to load darwins plugin with an error. Turns out there are a few redist.exe files for supporting VC2008,
so just in case anyone has install issues, hers a version of the redist I use, and will inlcude in the Darwin Package
as of next version. Doesnt hurt to run this, it just makes sure the VC2008 redist is up to date with whatr Darwin uses.
If you use Gearotic, even the demo, you dont need this.



Thx
Art
www.gearotic.com

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: January 02, 2015, 09:55:55 AM »

Well, if you use IO..yes. But Darwin in Demo combined with Mach4 is demo should be able to run programs and so forth...
you just cant do things like homing or spindle control. The point of the demo is really so you can test your system with Darwin to make
sure it runs OK. If it runs and jogs alright, then its definite it will work in release.

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: January 02, 2015, 09:00:58 AM »

Youd get it if you have no license file, so yes, if you havent yet recieved a personal license, it will always fail with that message.If you HAVE a license
and get that message, it means you placed it in the wrong place, or didnt rename it to DarwinLic.dat

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: January 02, 2015, 08:11:20 AM »

Hi:

 A -33 error is a "File Not found" error. Its saying it cannto find a darwin license.
In this case no IO will work, so no homing. TO home in Darwin with Mach4, you need only to have Homing inputs
turned on in both Mach4, and in Darwin. ( See Darwin Video on setup.). If you turn on Debug in Darwin, ( meni item
in Mach4), you'll get messages when homing or doing almost anything, that will tell you hat Darwin is seeing, and whats its
doing as a result. It will give an idea as to whats wrog when you try to home. Shoudlnt matter if Mach is licensed or not
to get the debug messages.

Hope that helps
Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: December 27, 2014, 12:11:58 AM »

Hi Tom:

 the only thing that shoudl be necessary is to have Darwin.m4pw and Darwin.sig in the Plugins Folder.
I cant think of anything else that would hide it. Make sure their the files from the Darwin2157 install or zip
folder in this thread. Also make sure drivertest.exe runs properly.

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: December 26, 2014, 03:33:52 PM »

Tom:

  The only place it will show up in at first I think is in the "Select Motion Device" menu item.
Fromt here it will turn on the other menu item .. Does it apear in that menu?

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: December 24, 2014, 09:25:44 PM »

Hi Tom:

  Well, I think the first thing to do is to igonre the license till you get Darwin running. It sound sliek perhaps its a
version mismatch. What version is your MAch4? ( check thehelp/about). To get darwin to run you typically just need to copy in two files to the plugins
folder. Darwin.m4pw and Darwin.sig , do both of these files exist in the plugins folder?

We'll go from there..

Thx
Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: December 22, 2014, 09:08:41 PM »

Eric:

  It should , but I have heard some had trouble doing so...

Art