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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Spindle and coolant stop on M01

« on: April 14, 2023, 10:33:16 AM »

Ok. I have it made. I’m just not at my desk at the moment.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Spindle and coolant stop on M01

« on: April 14, 2023, 10:28:54 AM »

Yeah. It should. Feedhold waits for cycle start.  You can even use the option stop button if you want.
Inside your macro check to see if the opt stop output is in. If it is then use the feedhold.  Otherwise ignore it.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Spindle and coolant stop on M01

« on: April 14, 2023, 10:10:22 AM »

Usually it is a setting or a keep relay that makes it do that. On some of the fanuc machines we have it would stop the spindle and coolant and some wouldn’t.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Spindle and coolant stop on M01

« on: April 14, 2023, 09:46:40 AM »

Add another physical button next to your e stop that can toggle the spindle and coolant on and off. If that’s an option for you, we can help you out with the script.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Spindle and coolant stop on M01

« on: April 14, 2023, 09:27:17 AM »

Unfortunately you cannot view macros that have internal functions already made by NFS.  You can make your own new macros for some of them, however, m01 is not one of those.
Per the Scripting Manual on page 9.  Manuals are found in the Mach4 Folder --> DOCS.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Update Mach4 with least pain

« on: March 30, 2023, 08:29:33 AM »

I'm curious.  Are you setting tool lengths somewhere on your machine?  Also, to use the H for the tool length, you need to call a G43 H(Toolnumber)

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Mach4 General Discussion / Rotary Axis Display

« on: March 21, 2023, 09:49:36 AM »

Is there a way to turn off the rotary axis display.  We are making a Carbide Knife Grinder that uses 2 rotary axis along with X and Z and it is messing up the toolpath display.
We are using the lathe screenset to work with the CAM we are using to output the code.  The display is extremely useful for following and finding code when we go to edit it.  We just want to turn off the skew that it makes when it applies a rotary move.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 default scripts

« on: March 16, 2023, 05:10:36 PM »

I found what I was looking for.
Smurph talks about it a few posts down.

https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=33831.msg235284#msg235284

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: ATC Air Pressure Sensor Hardware

« on: March 16, 2023, 03:36:50 PM »

Automation Direct sells some solid stuff.  Expensive, but it will probably last a very long time.
That's where we purchases most of our stuff.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 default scripts

« on: March 16, 2023, 03:34:27 PM »

Mach4 uses it's own internal m3, m4, m5, m30 ect... unless you add one of these to the profiles's macro folder.  I make my own m30 when we get a machine going, that way I can turn on a stack light and buzzer when the part is finished. 
There is a thread on here somewhere with me asking that very question and one of the Mach4 developers said you needed to be sure certain things were in the macro, I can't remember what they are right off the top of my head.  However, the machine I'm working on does the following:
Turns off the spindle; turns off the coolant; calls a G40 with an mdiexecute api command and then I turn on my buzzer and stacklight. 
I have made custom m3 and m5 commands as well.
Like I said, just make a macro and save it in the macro folder of your profile that you are working with.  Mach4 --> Profiles --> your profile --> macros.  Save it as m3, m5, or m30.  It will replace whatever the stock commands are.