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General Mach Discussion / "Hold" command for arc controller unit.

« on: September 02, 2008, 03:35:32 AM »

Is it possible to have a "hold" output for arc controller unit?
When using arc controller, the change of speed can affect the torch height.
What i want is: at the corners (where speed is lower and the torch will touch the plate),
the mach3 will give an output to the arc controller unit to hold the torch.
Can that be done with brains?
Any ideas on how to do that?
Kind regards,
Giannis

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General Mach Discussion / Re: What is better...?

« on: August 12, 2008, 09:23:59 AM »

Brett,
i tried before optimizing. Was working good. I did the optimizing just to be sure.
By the way, is there any way to run Mach3 on linux?

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General Mach Discussion / What is better...?

« on: August 12, 2008, 08:43:05 AM »

This is a silly question, but please if you know something, answer it...

What is better to use for PC for Mach3? Multiprocessor computer or single?
(I am asking because i followed the recomended steps about performance -about changing from ACPI PC to Standard PC - and i realised that the processing speed was lower. My PC is dual core.)
regards,
giannis...

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General Mach Discussion / FeedOverRide DRO over 100%...

« on: August 12, 2008, 02:30:10 AM »

Hello there!
When changing the FeedOverRide DRO, does that effect also the G0 speed?
It seems to me that when setting this DRO to over than 100%,
the G0 speed also is bigger (and this is problem).
If so, how can i raise the program speed while running, without affecting the G0 speed?
Thanks...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to change Reverse speed?

« on: June 13, 2008, 02:11:17 PM »

No, i am not using the slider. I am using a button that says SetOemDro(818,200),
but although the feed rate DRO shows 200, the reverse speed is still high speed.
Any ideas?

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General Mach Discussion / How to change Reverse speed?

« on: June 13, 2008, 08:21:39 AM »

How can i change the reverse speed?
I tried changing the FeedRate OEMDRO(818) to a very low value,
but everytime i hit the reverse button OEMButton(279), goes back very fast.
Any ideas?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Buttons that write numbers in DROs.

« on: May 27, 2008, 07:30:13 AM »

Its not really what i want.
I want it to be appeared on a screen and have bigger buttons.

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General Mach Discussion / Buttons that write numbers in DROs.

« on: May 27, 2008, 03:22:02 AM »

Is there any way to create some buttons that will insert numbers to DROs?
Like a numeric pad i mean.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: About a delay routine with G4

« on: April 12, 2008, 05:05:22 AM »

Well, by setting the Dwell in sec (and not in msec) worked!

So easy..

Thanks  Ian. 

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: About a delay routine with G4

« on: April 12, 2008, 02:46:17 AM »

Ok, i have some more information.
I changed the multiplier from 770 to 1000:

wait=(GetUserDRO(1037)*1000)

There is the same problem, but now happens at the value of 22 (at the 1037 DRO).

Following, i set the multiplier to 2000 and now happens to 11.

28*770=21560.
22*1000=22000.
11*2000=22000.

So, there is a kind of overflow over 21500, but i don't know where and how. '(while it is not 2 bytes -32768-)