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General Mach Discussion / Re: soft limits don't respond

« on: August 15, 2016, 02:23:01 PM »

HI

you have homed the machine first - this is a must.

What sensors/switches are you using for the limit/home switches ?

Once set, soft-limit should never change during a session, if the homing switches are a bit rough then it might vary from one session to the next.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: machine homes by itself while machining

« on: August 15, 2016, 02:20:27 PM »

Excellent stuff, never a good idea to route signal wires in with power wires.
Maybe worth getting a shielded cat cable.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool Offset Macro...

« on: August 15, 2016, 09:42:49 AM »

ftp://ftp.machsupport.com/Mach3/

needs password??

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool Offset Macro...

« on: August 15, 2016, 07:34:57 AM »

Ok, will be looking at this again before expensive tooling goes in

Where do i find the good version for download?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool Offset Macro...

« on: August 15, 2016, 04:45:46 AM »

Ok will get 062 and try that,

I have had some success, it seems it may be possibly my fault, it crashes if the tool selected is NOT tool 0 or a zero-length tool, i.e. it will plunge if tool-length offset > 0.

Now, it was seemingly random because most of my tool table is empty, i am only messing with tools 1-4, zero is my Haimer probe or general purpose tool.

Then it seems that i had fixed this and put a bit of code in to stop it running if tool >0 BUT it is not reading this code so it let me run it anyway hence the crashes.

It looks at OemDro(42) tool Z offset which i thought was right but it seems I should try OemDro(32) tool length offset??

Or maybe look at OemDro(824) tool number???

I think the issue was likely my error but also the wrong code to block my error

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3, Leadshine MX4660, UC100 CNC motion controller and problems with Auto Zero

« on: August 15, 2016, 02:20:00 AM »

If "probe" lights up immediately, you have Active Low set wrong in ports and pins -> inputs, flip that and test by touching the plate to the tool, the probe led must light when touched and go off when not.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool Offset Macro...

« on: August 15, 2016, 02:12:06 AM »

I think its on .066 but will have to check that on the setup, I am using the CS-Labs CSMIO-IP/A controller.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool Offset Macro...

« on: August 14, 2016, 01:14:39 PM »

It seems to be a DRO update thing maybe, I might play with it some more when i get a chance, else its out with the calculator I guess.

I might remove the auto-load for the tool-table line, it does not show the new values for some reason but does if you manually load it??

I will also contact CS-Labs as mentioned.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool Offset Macro...

« on: August 14, 2016, 11:54:27 AM »

Been testing again, fixed one thing, found another

The error was caused by my pressing "Apply" when it shows the tool table, if you only press "OK" then it all works fine, no idea why, when it auto-loads the tool table the new value does not show either.

Anyways, after figuring that out I tried it again and this time it plunged the Z down again like it did when it crashed It seems it works then something gets upset and thats it - crash time.

It probes fine at rapid, then hits the plate, then plunges when it should lift and probe slowly. It only plunges at hyper speed for a short distance - about 10mm it appears then it slows to correct very slow speed.

So, as i cannot trust it now, that means i can't use probing to populate the tool table.

I guess I need a calculator and pencil and paper then - not impressed.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool Offset Macro...

« on: August 14, 2016, 10:59:18 AM »

Just been looking at that, Does not make sense yet, seems the M32 part just gets some parameters which are passed to an internal plugin code, it does not say where or how the output is given? It says you can modify it but looks like only the parameter part is accessible?

I need to figure out whats going on in my G31 code i think.

From the CS-Labs site...

"As you all know Mach3 software has G31 function for probing. Using this function we can do precise tool length measurement or determine a location of an edge of our workpiece on a work table."

So it seems G31 should work ok.