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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 01:20:03 PM »

For anyone testing and finding their motor mappings and settings gone... Ive noticed if you reboot
all your settings come back..

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 12:57:30 PM »

New Darwin version here , only difference is the help file link to the video.

New video online at
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6SU5JVTpik

  for configuring Darwin.

Note:
  I did neglect to mention that to home you  set the motors home switch (Just under the motor enable) to the signal number of the home signal
you set up in inputs. So if Signal #4 is set to "HomeX", then you have to enter 4 in the motors "home switch" box in the motors tab.

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 12:41:35 PM »

Freeman:

  Pretty strange. I find it hard to blame that on CPU Power, my machine isnt great but run at 0%..

Has to be some process or another hanging up.. hopefully it will become appararent as we go..

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 12:15:59 PM »

Gerry:

  I did find when it crashes from that one if I then run Darwins DriverTest.exe, MAch4 then closes with no reboot.

(If that helps. )

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 11:05:44 AM »

Damn, I was hopefull that was it. Its intermittant enough that it fooled me into thinking I had it. Unfortunatly Im out
of ideas as to what I can try. This will require Brian and Steve to look at.  The only other thing I did was create a new profile to
get rid of any corruption in my old one...

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 10:34:09 AM »

Hi Guys:

  Ive been running and restarting for about an hour..

 Ive had no more forgetting of settings and it hasnt locked up on me either. I think I was hosing the system due to
an unknown responce to creating multiple registers with this version. This version seems to be working quite well so far.
For CPU speed, Mach4 doesnt register in the top 15 processes while jogging. Homing has been restest and all appears well.
I will create a new video on configuration , hopefully today..
Thx
Art
 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 10:16:44 AM »

Hi Guys:

  This version of Darwin may solve many of those issues, turns out one of my libraries was out of date. It could explain the
forgetfullness of the settings as well as some of the errors. MPG's are added in this version but I need to test them. Please
let me know if lockups or forgotten settings are seen with this version...

Thx
Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 08:38:28 AM »

Bob..et al:

  It not you, I too am getting crashes in the latest version of m4. When I turned it on today I had no jog buttons.
I found the motors were mapped, but not enabled. So I enabled them, and promptly crashed.

When I rebooted ( Mach wouldnt shut down..) I restarted the program and the axis were mapped but not enabled, so
I enabled x,y, and z.. and away they went. Jogging buttons appeared and all motion seemed to work.

 Something is performing badly. Hard to say what as yet, but at least you know it isnt you or your machine, if its happening here
it can happen anywhere.

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 08:23:50 AM »

Hi Guys:

  There are two messages in Darwin you need to know..if you get this one...

"Warning::Axis %x set over max speed of %.2f Units/min"

It means your axis is tuned too fast. If you get this one..

"Darwin Buffer Error - Too fast?"

 It means Darwin sensed a motion that was way to large ofr a single time increment.
It could be due to soem offset Im unuaware of as yet, or an axis not enabled in M4, but enabled
in Darwin. (Or visa versa.). Im looking into the situation..

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 08, 2014, 10:50:36 PM »

Hmm..Those are the most recent versions.... I guess we'll have to see what further reports show..
You might want to totally delete the folder to make sure no old file is corrupting things...an reinstall. Might be worth the effort..

I did misreport that you cant do step/dir spindles.. you can , Ill show in a new video how to set that up.  Im adding MPGs next..

Art