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VB and the development of wizards / Re: reading mouse movement?

« on: January 29, 2008, 08:16:46 PM »

I do not think its possible to detect mouse activity from within the VB script environment. The VB stuff only gets to run 10 times per second. You might be able to do something from a plugin, but that requires C++

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: Gear Cutting with 4th Axis

« on: January 25, 2008, 07:33:18 PM »

The wizard does use the A axis. It generates a subroutine that makes the A move, so the code looks a bit strange if oyu are not used to subroutines.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: New Wizard "Write/Engraving"

« on: January 25, 2008, 07:31:25 PM »

Ive thought about a text engraving wizard, but its a lot harder to do than you might think.  It might be more likely if I ever get around to re-writing the wizards in Flash, but so far I have not had much success learning flash.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: V2.76

« on: January 21, 2008, 07:56:22 PM »

E mail them to me, no reason to clutter the list.

I hope the problem list is short :-)

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: V2.76

« on: January 20, 2008, 07:53:07 PM »

yes, Art added the GetToolDesc a while ago. I waited a while to use it hoping many users would be at a late enough version. I guess the choices are to update to a later version or dont use the tool table.

Art sent me a message on 10/25 that the command would be in the next version. Sorry but I dont know how that date relates to version numbers.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: V2.76

« on: January 18, 2008, 08:26:55 PM »

When it generated inside code at the start it moved to the center of the hole then out to a start point then BACK to the center of the hole then BACK to the startcut point before continueing.

Were you doing RH or LH thread, and did you set Climb or Conventional mill ?

The reason to go bottom up on outside thread is to allow conventional milling. If you want climb milling then top to bottom is Ok, for inside threads its the opposite. At least I think I got those combinations correct, I had to draw it all ot when I was working on the code, I think the code is right, I may be saying it backward now.

Im at Cabin Fever now so I cant look at the code to see about the tool table problem, Ill check it when I get home Monday night.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / V2.76

« on: January 15, 2008, 08:55:56 PM »

I have made some fixes and posted a new version, now 2.76

The tool selection screen has been fixed to properly handle metric tools. I has apparently been wrong since the beginning, I guess not a lot of guys use metric tools ;-) Odd bug, it was supposed to test LED 1020 to see if it was metric, but it was looking instead at DRO1020, which happened to be a value on another screen.

I also fixed the tool table dialog box to display the tool description field. Art added a VB call for that some time ago, I just got around to fixing it.

I also made major changes to the thread milling screen. I believe it is now safe from all tool crashes, but check your code before you crash an expensive tool!

The one remaining problem I am aware of is that the circle wizard does a radius in move when you ask for a groove. That screen has some very ugly VB code and Im not quite ready to hack it apart yet. I will get there.


Feb 13, removed the zip file, see new topic for new version

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: V2.75 ready for test

« on: January 13, 2008, 09:47:25 PM »

I just today did a major re-write of the thread milling wizard, and I think its now correct. Ive sent it off to Brian to put in the Mach kit.

I also corrected the tool table screen, it now includes the description field, and correctly handles metric tool parameters.

I have not worked on the circular groove yet. I will try to get to it tomorrow.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: Installing on the D: Drive?

« on: November 28, 2007, 07:58:41 AM »

This has been fixed in the 2.75 version, which is at http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,4578.0.html

Just download the zip file and unzip it into wherever your Addons folder is. Let me know if you have any problems with this.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Mouse button push-on & release-off, For an Output# in Mach button

« on: November 20, 2007, 07:49:41 PM »

I dont think VB can read the mouse directly. Of course, a button can bbe set up so that when the mouse clicks on it that button will be 'pressed' and some VB code in the button can then run.

If thats what you want all you need is a button on the screen, set it to be a VB button in screen 4, then put the code you have in the button script form the Mach operator menu.