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General Mach Discussion / Re: THC Codes upset corners???

« on: April 04, 2014, 02:17:37 AM »

what is in the m101/102 macros?
Hood

Good point, I presumed they were standard Mach macros?

I will have a look

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General Mach Discussion / Re: THC Codes upset corners???

« on: April 04, 2014, 02:17:01 AM »

Try using G64 at the beginning of your code.

G64 = constant velocity

G61 = exact stop

Jeff

Neither of those codes appear in my G-code, I will add the G64

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General Mach Discussion / THC Codes upset corners???

« on: April 03, 2014, 10:49:21 AM »

In preparation for fitting a THC unit, I thought I'd try adding the M101/M102 THC on/off codes to my sheetcam post.

I have a test job, a 50mm square that has 5mm loops on the corners to keep nice sharp corners, however with the THC M codes added, when I dry-run this code in Mach3 Plasma it runs to a corner, stops, cuts the loop, stops, cuts the next edge then repeats on all corners??

Is there a reason it does this or is Mach not set correctly, surely just adding THC on/off codes should not upset the smoothness of the code?

Without the codes it runs smoothly?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Button Reprogramming...

« on: April 03, 2014, 10:01:50 AM »

That's good, at least two ways of doing it then

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Button Reprogramming...

« on: April 03, 2014, 09:39:26 AM »

That fixed it, it seems that although it creates a macro file it does not use it but instead embeds the code?

Anyway its working nicely now

Thanks all

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Button Reprogramming...

« on: April 03, 2014, 09:31:30 AM »

I will add the sleep command

Once I added the script in machscreen, it saved a custom macro, I can now edit that macro with notepad

Machscreen is a very "odd" program

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Button Reprogramming...

« on: April 03, 2014, 09:16:22 AM »

It puts the DRO values back to exactly where they were before pressing the button.

i.e. its not storing them.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Button Reprogramming...

« on: April 03, 2014, 08:55:40 AM »

Hmm, getting in a mess now (got backup copy though)

I have added the codes dooembutton(1007) zero all
and dooembutton(160) regen toolppath

but now it zeros the dro's then regens the path but then sends the dro's back to somewhere else leaving them non-zero?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Button Reprogramming...

« on: April 03, 2014, 08:05:33 AM »

Any idea how i do that. I'm not seeing any "convert to VB" features mentioned?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Button Reprogramming...

« on: April 03, 2014, 05:17:35 AM »

Well I've downloaded and got machscreen running but its way over my head i think.

All i could gather was the the Origin button has a short-cut of Ctrl-O, calls function 1007 and that's about it.

Is there a way I can add this simple command ?