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General Mach Discussion / Re: Can someone look at my code and tell me what I'm doing wrong? Using ger21 screen

« on: October 03, 2013, 10:03:39 PM »

I saw the one in your screen set. Definitely plan on using it for edges but I meant 3D. Guess I didn't know that was built into the wizard. Thought I saw someone had a really good script setup for fast digitizing but we're having issues with newer versions of Mach3

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Can someone look at my code and tell me what I'm doing wrong? Using ger21 screen

« on: October 03, 2013, 10:33:10 AM »

I don't have MasterCAM configured really. Still learning it and was told I could edit the pst file for the profile I was using but haven't tried to find the right one yet as there are tons and none seemed to be named what I thought they would and none of the dates had changed on them.

I did add a separate 91.1, removed the M01 and both of the G43 lines and everything worked as it should.

Again thanks for the help and I cannot thank you enough for making this screenset ger21. Now if I could just find a digitizing probe script/screenset I think I'll be a very happy man.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Can someone look at my code and tell me what I'm doing wrong? Using ger21 screen

« on: October 02, 2013, 10:22:51 PM »

So if I don't want to get that arc radius error which should I have in there? 90.1 or 91.1?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Can someone look at my code and tell me what I'm doing wrong? Using ger21 screen

« on: October 02, 2013, 09:13:26 PM »

Thanks ger21. I'm just learning MasterCAM and it definitely has some strange things it adds into the code.

So G90 doesn't wipe out G91.1? Without the G91.1 I get that wonderful arc to radius error.

So should I totally delete any reference to G43?

I may have inadvertently hit the pause button on my pendant when that run from here menu came up. Would that cause it?

Anyone with MasterCAM experience that can help me edit the correct pst file so these things don't happen again?

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General Mach Discussion / Can someone look at my code and tell me what I'm doing wrong? Using ger21 screen

« on: October 02, 2013, 08:20:01 PM »

Hello Everyone. I am absolutely loving ger21's screenset and being able to do tool changes but in my first larger cut I'm having weird issues.

I'm using MasterCAM x5 to create the code and I know there are a few quarks like I have to change the very first G90 in the code to G91.1 to make it not error upon loading in Mach3.

The other issue I had was there was an M01 call right before the 1st real tool change (yes there is an M6 at the start but that works flawlessly) and Mach just stopped at that. So I removed the M01 and it seemed to work. Since the spindle was 44" away it came back to the front, let me change the bit, did it's re-zero to the fixed tool change touchplate then went all the way back to the far end of the piece where it was.

Then instead of starting back up a strange menu popped up with a bunch of check-boxes and things about starting the spindle and getting up to feed rate so I hit ok (this wasn't the usuall just hit cycle start again to get going).

Did that and then the spindle came all the way back to the front and didn't do anything.

I'm guessing it is something in MasterCAM's creating the gcode causing this but I'm not sure what.

Could someone take a look and let me know what I need to fix? It's probably the lines around 150

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Finished Screens / Re: Mach3 2010 Screenset - Now available

« on: September 29, 2013, 09:08:27 PM »

Ahh, just says Simulate. Thanks again ger21.

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Finished Screens / Re: Mach3 2010 Screenset - Now available

« on: September 29, 2013, 05:22:14 PM »

Am I not seeing the Simulate Program Run button in this screenset?

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Finished Screens / Re: Mach3 2010 Screenset - Now available

« on: September 26, 2013, 01:19:02 PM »

That was definitely it ger21. Thanks. Spent some time re-tuning and things are working. Now for the auto zero setup!

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Finished Screens / Re: Mach3 2010 Screenset - Now available

« on: September 26, 2013, 10:35:41 AM »

That's what the problem is then. It's a Chinese machine so all documentation I had was in mm so I initially setup and tuned the motors using mm. I just figured if I switched the native units after that Mach3 would show everything correctly in inches. Thanks for the help. No I get to re-do the motor tuning....... Joy.

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Finished Screens / Re: Mach3 2010 Screenset - Now available

« on: September 25, 2013, 10:34:29 PM »

I installed the screenset i bought from you and went through the set up. how do i get it back to Inches? my DRO's are reading in MM's. everything was set to Inches before i installed the screenset. even the bottom of the screen references mm's. im sure it is something simple but i can't find it in the configs of the screenset.

Ger, I can't believe I waited so long to get your screenset. Thanks for all the hard work and support and I have a question.

I quoted krugshouse's post from a while back. I have this same issue and have always had it so it's probably a Mach3 thing not your screenset. If I have my native units selected as MM of course everything is in MM including DRO's. If I load a gcode file that is in inches it will automatically switch all DRO's over to inches and everything is great or I can go to the settings screen in the 1024 screenset and hit the UNITS Alt-U button and swap and everything reads either MM or inches. The problem then becomes that button isn't in your screenset

The problem I have is I want inches set as my native units so I can have my table size etc all setup in my native units but if I start Mach3 with native units set to inches all of my DRO's are in MM and even loading an inch gcode won't switch it over. I tried your suggestion of using G20 and hitting enter twice but my DRO's never switch to inches so setting up all of my park's, plate thickness etc have to be in MM to be correct.

This been a constant battle while setting up homing, table etc and I'm hoping someone knows the fix that I can't seem to find.