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General Mach Discussion / Re: Win7 security update issue with parallel port

« on: March 18, 2018, 12:27:01 PM »

Get rid of Norton

The pc should be isolated anyway and Norton is one of the most aggressive/invasive A/V systems out - you will need to get the Norton installer from the site.

Once Mach is running ok, do not install any updates etc - the PC becomes a machine controller, frozen in time, pretty much like Mach3

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Scripter Compile Error bites again :(

« on: March 18, 2018, 09:36:15 AM »

Running again this morning - still no sign of trouble

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Settings Keep Changing

« on: March 17, 2018, 03:08:24 PM »

But your units are set to MM not inches, so in MDI 5 MUST go 5mm not 5"

Can you check native units setup please?

When you did axis tuning could it have been set for inches and you thought MM - you could have tuned it wrong by the 25 factor

If not please post some g-code, also your mechanical/driver setup too.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Settings Keep Changing

« on: March 17, 2018, 02:06:40 PM »

OP said MDI - I didn't think we'd hit g-code yet

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Settings Keep Changing

« on: March 17, 2018, 01:18:42 PM »

Is this setting correct?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Settings Keep Changing

« on: March 17, 2018, 01:01:27 PM »

No, only if changing something

You are not set for metric and running inch g-code?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Settings Keep Changing

« on: March 17, 2018, 12:45:12 PM »

Do you always press "Save axis" before exiting the settings screen??

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Scripter Compile Error bites again :(

« on: March 17, 2018, 11:40:45 AM »

I had a small run of parts on the mill today, about 15 tool changes in all - all worked perfectly, no scripter errors.

Too early to say fixed or not but it's promising.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Homing operation does not pulls back enough to get away from switch?

« on: March 17, 2018, 03:51:40 AM »

If this is a stepper system, simply use one of your existing switches on each axis (at the home end) as a home switch, forget limits they are not needed on a stepper drive.

disconnect the other switches.

configure Mach to HOME input only, not limit or combined, get the machine homing correctly and then turn on soft limits, job done.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Scripter Compile Error bites again :(

« on: March 15, 2018, 05:45:08 AM »

I learn something new every time. I had never looked at the options for the save command. Never bothered.

So I saved a 'spare' macro as a .mcc file, and then opened it with Notepad. Hum ... a lot of gibberish, then the text of the original macro in a slightly mangled manner, and some more gibberish. OK - sort of packed?

Then I tried to open that file with the VB Script Editor. I had to type in the extension as .mcc was not an option, but it loaded. Well, sort of: the 'Cypress enable' at the start appeared, but nothing else. Almost as though the Script Editor stopped loading as soon as it ran into non-ASCII characters.

At least, it seems that once the file has been pre-compiled, Mach3 is not likely to try and change it! This could have some value.

So ... why doesn't Artsoft ship most of the macros pre-compiled?
And why isn't there anything about the .mcc extension in any of the manuals I have looked in recently? Sigh.

Cheers
Roger

Yep, I did read somewhere, that once compiled you cannot edit so you MUST save a copy in a folder somewhere, you must delete the .m1s files or Mach will simply read those instead.