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General Mach Discussion / Re: Remove BKSPACE from Hotkeys

« on: October 23, 2017, 11:50:06 PM »

Hi imitheo,
not sure about the second issue but it sounds like your DRO is behaving like a calculator. DROs
can be made to have that behavour, but my understanding was that you had to specify it.

Away from my machine at the moment. Will experiment some when I get home.

Craig

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: Tiny computer for MACH

« on: October 23, 2017, 11:40:01 PM »

Hi,
the Atom has one built-in PP and I fitted a PCI card with a second port and ran like that for about three years with Mach3.
About a year ago I stepped up to a Smoothstepper and Mach4 but on the same Atom PC.

The Smoothstepper will run pretty sweetly with just about any PC whereas PP's can be very picky about which
PC they run on.

Craig

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Lines in the tool path window

« on: October 23, 2017, 11:34:10 PM »

Hi,
Cleverer and cleverer!

Craig

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: Tiny computer for MACH

« on: October 23, 2017, 10:15:13 PM »

Hi,
this little device has way less grunt than my dual core Atom. My Atom is fine but its slow to load and draw the
toolpath of large files. A 5meg PCB routing file can take two minutes plus to load/draw. Are you sure you want
to go for an even smaller/slower device?

Certainly if I were buying again I would go for a bit more grunt, a Celeron or a Pentium. Wouldn't bother with
more than 4gig RAM, my little Atom has 4gig but can only use 3gig, its enough.

Craig

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Lines in the tool path window

« on: October 23, 2017, 05:26:26 PM »

Hi,
sorry don't know if thats possible.

Craig

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 China MPG problem

« on: October 23, 2017, 04:46:06 PM »

Hi imitheo,
sorry thought I was on the Mach4 board, please disregard my previous post.

Craig

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 China MPG problem

« on: October 23, 2017, 04:44:09 PM »

Hi,
do some homework, not many pendants have Mach4 plugins yet. VistaCNC P1A does,I use it.

Craig

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Lines in the tool path window

« on: October 23, 2017, 03:38:06 PM »

Hi,
Configure/Mach/Toolpath allow you to set colours etc.

Craig

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 MPG - Alt-A Crashes mach every time.

« on: October 23, 2017, 02:11:16 PM »

Hi,
the Pokeys has a Mach4 plugin so you would be good to go.

If you are not averse to learning some new tricks and programing you'll be delighted with Mach4. The demo version is fully featured but runs for about
5-6 minutes before it needs to be reset. If you use the Sim(ulator) motion plugin then there are no limitations except the obvious...you can't control
actual motors!

Because Mach4 is completely new you can't upgrade from Mach3, you would have to buy a new licence, $200USD for Mach4Hobby.

Craig

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 MPG - Alt-A Crashes mach every time.

« on: October 23, 2017, 01:54:59 PM »

Hi,
for milling and routing there are no missing features. Mach4 is its best with an external motion controller like a Smoothstepper. Many of the features
like probing and lathe threading are enacted in the motion controller not Mach. To my knowledge all of the current Mach4 ready motion controllers
have probing, most have backlash compensation but only some have Torch Height Control or single point lathe threading.

Mach4s scripting environment is Lua. While Lua is very simple when you start adding API calls to Machs core, using wxWidgets for screen boxes/panels
and understanding Machs modular program structure can be quite daunting at first. No doubt if you read some of the threads in the Mach4 board you will
get the sense that many are convinced that they can't program Lua, but with assistance they do and derive considerable satisfaction and confidence from it.

I'm not personally aware of any bugs, there are a number of things which I thought worked one way but found that they in fact work some other way but
not actually faulty.

Craig