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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Lua Question

« on: February 21, 2015, 07:02:42 AM »

I tried using the "IF then" with a "goto" and a label but it doesn't ever got to the first function it will just skip over the first function and go to the second function.

Thanks
Dave

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Mach4 General Discussion / Lua Question

« on: February 20, 2015, 11:09:30 AM »

Hello All,
  Is there some way to put 2 functions in a script and be able to choose which function you want to run using a checkbox control and it would run one or the other but not both?  I am not a computer programmer at all.

Thanks
Dave

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: February 19, 2015, 04:52:35 PM »

Hey Sage,
 What I do is go into the c drive and copy the entire mach4hobby folder to a usb thumb drive. I try to do this everytime I make a change that works good and then if I make a bad change and can't get it fixed I just swap the entire mach4hobby folder with my backup from the usb thumb drive. Don't know if that would help ya but it works great for me.

Dave

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Need Help with Darwin and Spindle DRO

« on: February 18, 2015, 06:01:21 PM »

Made up a simple lathe drill wizard by butchering up Brians bolt circle wizard. had to put G17 in for the plane though cause G18 code doesn't seem to work. The peck drilling works though. although I haven't tried it out on the machine yet.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Current Status of Mach4 Lathe

« on: February 16, 2015, 02:13:39 PM »

Kerry,
 If you haven't yet it would be a good idea to download the demo, there is a lathe screenset on it and you can make changes with lua.

Dave

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: New Button for CCW

« on: February 10, 2015, 12:16:35 PM »

Hello
on your script you have  something like this  ...... mc.mcSpindleSetDirection(inst, 0);
                                                                     else
                                                                      mc.mcSpindleSetDirection(inst, 1).......
change the 1 to a -1

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: sizes aren't correct anymore please help !

« on: December 18, 2014, 09:49:51 AM »

Could it have anything to do with cutter compensation? is there like a G41 or G42 in your program?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Bug Reports

« on: December 11, 2014, 01:49:54 PM »

When the timing signal is triggered the 0 motor which I have set to the x-axis
will start and move in a +direction until it hits the limit or you hit e-stop.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Need Help with Darwin and Spindle DRO

« on: December 10, 2014, 08:36:04 AM »

A few pics of my screen set. the one shows the index change from high to low and from low to high as the spindle is running. the program rpm dro can be typed in and works much better than having to put it in mdi and hit cycle start.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Need Help with Darwin and Spindle DRO

« on: December 09, 2014, 10:21:19 AM »

I'm assuming this really has nothing to do with the Darwin Plugin.... as I can see the index signal in Mach4. the issue would how do I change that signal to a true RPM value on the screen set. I tried mc.mcSpindleGetSensorRPM and mc.mcSpindleGetTrueRPM and several others in a script for a DRO.