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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Carved a Colt 1911

« on: May 01, 2018, 08:02:37 AM »

I had a chance to visit this shop a few days ago. He has made a fully functional colt all of wood. Well, functional in that every internal piece is there, I dont think it will fire. He also makes very fine pistol grips. He has 4 mills running, all  on Mach3 with some amazing control work.

https://www.woodcaliber.com/

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Mach4 General Discussion / Toggle button

« on: May 01, 2018, 07:52:40 AM »

I have built a panel with several buttons and a PoKey56E. I want two buttons to be a toggle for spindle on/off in forward and reverse. I used this code in the signal script.

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[mc.ISIG_INPUT7] = function (state)
   if (state == 1) then   
       mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, "Spindle Forward Off");
       mc.mcSpindleSetDirection(inst, 0);
    else
        mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, "Spindle Forward ");
        mc.mcSpindleSetDirection(inst, 1);     
    end
end,
Problem is when the button is pressed the signal is called and the function turns on, but as soon as the button is released the signal script sees the change and call the function again, turning the spindle off.

Any idea how to handle this? Is there a way to only see the signal when it rises, not on any change?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Spindle Override

« on: May 01, 2018, 07:48:18 AM »

I have built a panel with a PoKey56E and several buttons, and 3 pots. I want to control Feed, Rapid and Spindle overrive.

The example in the PoKeys doc shows converting the analog reading for Feed and Rapid to a number between 0 and 100. It does not show an example for Spindle. I have found the spindle function requires a 0 to 1 number, not 0 to 100.

I suspect this is a bug?

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PoKeys / Re: Analog Device for Feed Rate Override on Pokeys57CNC

« on: November 09, 2016, 06:29:33 PM »

I followed your blog entry to setup an analog  input. The register files shows the changing values as I turn the pot, but the script gives and error pointing to the line I added to the PLc script. I have rechecked and I have the line entered correctly.

Any hint on debugging this/

Are your blog reports available to print? I would like to print them to have by my system in the shop.

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Newfangled Mill Wizard / Re: Pointer to current version

« on: October 28, 2016, 09:18:56 PM »

The latest update of the wizard in now on the machsupport.com web site. It shows a V2.0.5, but the Help screen shows V2.04x. That is the same, just a mistake in updating the version number.

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Newfangled Mill Wizard / Re: Jobs Replacing Operations With Tool Changes On Loading

« on: October 28, 2016, 09:15:11 PM »

Ok, finally Brian got the latest version up on the web site. A minor error, the installer says it is V2.0.5, but the help about box says 2.04x. Iti s the correct version, should show as 2.0.5

Hey, its on the net, dont sweat the small stuff like a version number.

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Newfangled Mill Wizard / Re: Jobs Replacing Operations With Tool Changes On Loading

« on: September 13, 2016, 09:05:14 AM »

Sorry, no update yet. Brian has to do that, and I know he is away this week. I will see if I can get him to do it when he gets back.

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Newfangled Mill Wizard / Re: MW Hole Circle - angles not saving

« on: August 08, 2016, 01:49:40 PM »

yes, it is a bug. I can repeat it. The Start Angle value is not saved correctly to the job file. Interesting it is saved correctly to the ini file so the next time you use a hole circle it will have the correct value, its just wrong when loaded from a job file. I don't see the problem yet, but I will find it and fix it. I don't know when we will release a new version, but it will get there.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: New mach 3 lathe setup issue

« on: July 19, 2016, 07:04:07 AM »

In turn mode there is no Y- it should be X and Z.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: New mach 3 lathe setup issue

« on: July 18, 2016, 09:48:48 PM »

I am not exactly sure what you are doing, but If you are using the NFsturn set then just make Xstart and Xend have the values you want for start and end.