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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tweaking the Tool-Change...

« on: September 26, 2016, 03:41:27 AM »

Thanks

Is this on a CSMIO controller, it seems specific to this controller setup - my stepper machines all work perfectly.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Run a macro from a button press??

« on: September 26, 2016, 02:13:51 AM »

Thanks, i did try that before, all it seemed to do was to stop Mach loading - had to fall back to a backup xml, maybe only works on certain versions?

I'll try the macro pump version and see how that goes.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Run a macro from a button press??

« on: September 25, 2016, 01:43:51 PM »

Oops, my bad, I was not at home earlier and tried to go by memory - D'oh!

Its the "Gcode Function" set to M889

I will change to VB script and add the unscript command.

Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Run a macro from a button press??

« on: September 25, 2016, 12:06:24 PM »

If you look at the  button in screen4 etc there are 3 action options - vb button editable in mach3, run macro, oem function

It just has the macro file set and nothing else

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Run a macro from a button press??

« on: September 25, 2016, 12:00:19 PM »

Thanks

I did try the triggermacro thing but all it ended in doing was completely hanging Mach3, had to fall back on a backup - didn't try again.

The button has no code in it luckily - it just has the "run macro...." attribute set - i guess thats the same as an internal "runscript..."

I'll play with the macropump - seems the only way.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Run a macro from a button press??

« on: September 25, 2016, 11:33:20 AM »

Ah bum, so is this route a dead-end?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Run a macro from a button press??

« on: September 25, 2016, 10:55:34 AM »

Any reason this is not working???

I have a button input - input 9

In screen4 I edited a screen button and gave it a short-cut of shift-1 which it showed as code 1073

In ports and pins I have assigned OEMTrigger9 to pin 9 port 10 (csmio default port)

In System system hotkeys I have assigned OEMTrigger 9 the value of 1073

Now,

on the keyboard if i press shift-1 the screen button is activated as expected but if i press the physical button nothing happens.

Have i missed a step?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tweaking the Tool-Change...

« on: September 25, 2016, 10:48:57 AM »

Ah well, nearly but no luck

Seems that when you use the CSMIO, you can not do any type of probe routine in the M6End macro

Any attempt to probe results in instant "ePid error" and Mach goes into reset.

The probing routine is sound and works when performed manually so its not that, you can also jog all axes when in the tool change sequence so its not that, it just will not handle a probe between M6Start and M6End.

That leaves only one option - create the G-Code with only one tool per file and not have any M6 calls in the code or set the "Ignore Tool Change" option in config.

Well, it was worth a try

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Knee Mill Conversion?

« on: September 25, 2016, 07:27:49 AM »

Job done

100 holes spotted, drilled, countersunk, blind-tapped M6

Picture below is the finished sub-table and here's a short clip of my peck-drilling...
https://youtu.be/7pixPYu1UFA

The surface parallelism measures 0 to +0.03mm in X and 0 to +0.02mm in Y so I'm not even going to bother doing a facing cut.

The tapping cycle was almost perfect, the modified post processor had a +10% retract rate - this was wrong as you could hear the tap pulling on the last thread as it came out, I've modified the post so that it's 1:1 all the way now.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Stepper issues

« on: September 24, 2016, 06:00:51 AM »

I too vote for the old pc with XP, turn off all the bells and whistles, use it just for Mach. I get mine from eBay about £30ea delivered.

I would have gone Mach4 but I have 3 machines running Mach3 so it didn't make sense at the time, I still don't think Mach4 is ready yet.