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General Mach Discussion / Re: Display Mode Button - Not Working?

« on: January 15, 2016, 08:24:59 AM »

Not working I don't think then, It does change the cross-hairs at 0/0 to dashed lines but that seems to be all it does, I think the text does not change as this screen-set uses button graphics and not plain buttons.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Display Mode Button - Not Working?

« on: January 15, 2016, 08:14:20 AM »

Double-Click in my window and it just resets any scrolling etc to standard view

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General Mach Discussion / Display Mode Button - Not Working?

« on: January 15, 2016, 06:51:37 AM »

Could there be a reason why my display mode button does nothing?
It has this VB code in it ...

value = GetParam("Boundry")
if  value = 1 then
SetButtonText " Job "
SetParam "Boundry" , 0
 else
SetParam "Boundry" , 1
SetButtonText "Machine"
end if

So I am going out on a limb here and guessing the button text should change when pressed but mine always says "display mode" and seems tot do bugger all.

Just wondering

Also, is there a zoom-to-fit option anywhere??

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Probably simple but...(G-Code help)

« on: January 15, 2016, 02:20:55 AM »

BTW that job i sent is a fiddly SOB, lots of very small square holes etc and its cut in aluminium, i use plenty of sheet cam rules to allow me to cut a square 5mm hole pretty well usually, thats probably why it looks loaded with junk

I guess I just need two macros - output on and output off then replace the #var lines in my subroutine with calls to the right macro??

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Probably simple but...(G-Code help)

« on: January 15, 2016, 01:28:06 AM »

Hmm, Ok, it must be connected to the screens then, thanks for testing it all out.

The M01/M00 are my personal addition (there are a few of them) and it enables me to switch on "Stop on M01" on the screen so it pauses between every cut - most of my stuff is arty farty and tip-ups are very common - this gives me a chance to pull the drop out of the way before the torch slams into it, being a home-shop, material is more important than time so wastage is not in  my dictionary.

On simple jobs I just set the optional stop off and let her go. The first M00 is a candcnc thing to give a chance to check your settings before the off.

I might look at macros, maybe its the better job for this task.

I presume I need to pull the #var out of the G-code and replace with a macro call?
Couldn't give us an idea of how to switch could you

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Probably simple but...(G-Code help)

« on: January 14, 2016, 04:10:15 PM »

OK WHY were you tapping teh keyboard ??


(;-) TP

I most certainly was not

The tapping noise was either my teeth chattering or the probe firing on and off

G-Code attached...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Probably simple but...(G-Code help)

« on: January 14, 2016, 02:00:40 PM »

DID you veiw the brain to see what part of teh brain drops out ??  OR simply watch the Cycle Start LED. I  a large LED on screen to make it easier to see.

Also download the program you  ran. Is there anything in it that can cause teh CycleStart to drop out momentarily ?? Again watch teh LED while it is running.

In the video you will see the setup, I had the brain viewer and the mach screen up at the same time, the bottom line is the #var and that comes on and off as expected, the top line is the Run LED and that is on 100%

Could this in any way be connected to the screen set being customised for the CandCNC control system??
just clutching at straws

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 wire up CNC to start plasma HELP PLEASE

« on: January 14, 2016, 01:37:55 PM »

Any details of your breakout board?

Pictures?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Probably simple but...(G-Code help)

« on: January 14, 2016, 01:36:51 PM »

Here we go - short video of a file loading

https://youtu.be/dhpkBF-zgPw

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Probably simple but...(G-Code help)

« on: January 14, 2016, 01:13:53 PM »

Excellent stuff

I tried the Brain and loaded a job with four duplicated parts, each part has multiple IHS calls and when loading the brain flicked on an off 8 times.

I video'd it, give us half an hour and i'll put a link up - its very odd.