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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: wizards erasing fields

« on: February 13, 2012, 10:00:24 PM »

It sounds like you are not pressing the Enter key. Mach does not update a value you place in a DRO until you also press the Enter key. If you simply click the mouse to another DRO it will revert to its original value.

By engraving wizard I assume you mean the Write wizard. Happily for me that is not one of the supported Newfangled wizards. It does cause a lot of trouble to people trying to use it. There are many notes on this forum about using it. I have not used it so Im not able to help. I do believe it does work well once you learn to use it.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: Wizard problem

« on: February 13, 2012, 04:01:13 PM »

Did you rename the folder in Addons to be just Newfangled?

That button reads the Material.txt file ahat is in Addons\Newfangled The read command does not check for errors, so if you are running from a folder names Newfangled286 it will not find the file.

I really should put an error test on that read, if anything happens to delete the Materials.txt file this happens.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: NEW!! Drill Wizard

« on: February 06, 2012, 02:09:29 PM »

I dont quite understand your question.

It doe snot matter which wizard update you install first. They are completely unrelated.

I assume your shop computer is not connected to the net and you do the download on another computer, then copy the files to flash drive and take that to the shop computer.

If the shop PC is on the net just download the files to a convenient place, like the desktop, then unzip it to the Mach3\Addons folder.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: NEW!! Drill Wizard

« on: February 06, 2012, 01:43:08 PM »

The wizards are on the net as a .zip file. You need to download that file then put it on a flash drive.

Take the flash drive to the shop PC with mach on it. When you plug it in a window should open and ask what you want to do. Click the choice to open a window and view the files.

When you find the wizard file, like DrillWiz102.zip Right click on it. That should open a menu with a choice to Extract ALL.
Choose that, then follow the directions. You want to extract the files so they end up in C:\Mach3\Addons\DrillWiz102.

Now delete the old wizard, which will be just DrillWiz, then rename the DrillWiz102 to be just DrillWiz.

Sorry it is so complicated, but Its about the only way I know to package them. If I dont add the version number then it would be very confusing.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: NFS Turn Wizard

« on: January 28, 2012, 02:53:53 PM »

That should work just fine. First you would have to setup all your tools in the tool table. Once that was done simply calling the correct tool before each operation will cause mach to apply the tool offsets.  That is why I included teh tool setup screen. It is essentially copied directly from the standard turn screen set. Read the tune manual to see how to make the setup

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: NFS Turn Wizard

« on: January 21, 2012, 09:43:38 PM »

yes, I no longer use the #expand. Its a helpful feature for support, but it doesnt run on old versions.

I try to be sure Brian always puts the latest version in the distribution, but he often misses it. Just get the latest version from the forum and load it to be sure.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: NFS Turn Wizard

« on: January 21, 2012, 02:31:10 PM »

I intend to do a turn that ends in a fillet. If you set the fillet radius to zero it leaves a square corner as it does now. I have that code written but have to test it.

I have to do some work on the graphics, I guess some guys dont like it taking the full screen, but want to see the task bar on the bottom.

I have some work on a next version, but then the holidays, and Cabin Fever got in the way. Ill be back to it soon.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: NFS Turn Wizard

« on: January 21, 2012, 10:45:25 AM »

Yes, the NFS turn wizard is part of the Newfangled set and you must buy the license. One license is good for all the NFS wizards, tunr, maill copycat, drilwiz and mill power feed

In each case the wizard will let you try parts of it without the license.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: NEW!! Drill Wizard

« on: December 23, 2011, 09:19:43 AM »

Your second problem looks like you are running the MachStandard Mill screen set. That screen set loads many custom macros, so when the wizard trys to call an M3 mach runs the modified macro that calls code that is part of the MachStand Mill set.

Im not sure there is a fix for this. Ill try to get Dave to look at it.

On your recording issue I think the right answer is to start recording before you make your first move. The wizard will record everything you do after you start recording, so be sure to start recording first.

I'm happy to see my GcodeInit file helped, that is exactly the kind of problem I wanted to cover.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: NEWFANGLED SOLUTIONS SOFTWARE - LATEST VERSION

« on: December 23, 2011, 08:27:15 AM »

I have not run mach 2.63 in a very long time, but the wizards use only the base mach screen functions, so it ought to run. I vaguely recall some screen changes with V3 of mach, but thats a long time ago. If it crashes then I guess you have determined its not compatible.

I would really figure out your issues with running the latest mach and get up to date.