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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: How to display current Coordinate System G54, G55 ...

« on: June 26, 2018, 02:58:31 PM »

KatzYaakov,
There was a thread just this past week discussing parameters and 2 lists came out of it.  Bryanna posted a Txt document that had a large list in it and the Mill Programming Manual has a large list in chapter 6.
Check the thread out here.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,37575.0.html

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: WHATS THIS ERROR..??? Clearing a spurious limit hit latch event,

« on: June 26, 2018, 02:25:35 PM »

We use Line Reactors from Automation Direct and have had very good results. 

We filter our VFDs and Servo Drive input power through line reactors.

https://www.automationdirect.com/adc/Shopping/Catalog/Drives/AC_Drive_(VFD)_Spare_Parts_-a-_Accessories/AC_Line_Reactors

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Are #100 thru #199 #vars safe for user functions?

« on: June 25, 2018, 02:11:29 PM »

Steve,
Chapter 6 of the Mill G Code Manual is new correct?
This would have been a gold mine of information for me when I was writing our OD Grinder Macro!!
Very valuable information in that chapter!! Thanks for adding it!!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Are #100 thru #199 #vars safe for user functions?

« on: June 20, 2018, 12:00:43 PM »

I just did a quick test on this. 
I put a value of 5 (for no particular reason) in variables #50, #99, #100, and #110.
I restarted Mach4, #50 and #99 still maintained their value of 5.  #100 and #110 returned to a NIL.

When I am using #VARS I tend to start at #200. 
I was doing some testing on my desk computer a few months ago and was using #VARS #200-#215, these still have their values from when I was testing our Grinding Program.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Mid Job Shutdown / Restart

« on: June 19, 2018, 10:08:09 AM »

I have had good luck with "Run from here", other people say it is temperamental.  
There was a post on here that had a little bit of a discussion about it but I'm not having any luck finding it right now.  

Actually, thinking about it, Bryanna could make a video on "Run from here" to show people how to use it properly.  Just a thought.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Repeating Problems with Y Axis Stepper

« on: June 03, 2018, 05:26:29 PM »

Be sure you have smoothing checked on your adaptive toolpaths.   

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Flickering Feed and Spindle RPM DROs

« on: June 01, 2018, 03:56:55 PM »

I've used the ESS and the Integra.  I've never had this issue and we have multiple machines running Mach4.  I know from your previous posts that you have manipulated a fair bit of code. I would go back and check to be sure you didn't override these somewhere.  If you remember what Steve said in one post, most of the custom stuff people want can be handled by setting DROs and Buttons to do "actions"; that is what the Spindle Speed and Feedrate are doing, displaying exactly what they are told to display. 
Here is the thread that has a list of REG Vars, I did find the Feedrate and Spindle Speed settings #2032 #2034  these are the commanded Feedrate and Spindle Speed settings.  Unfortunately I couldn't find the variables that displayed the Current Settings (when overridden).

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,27396.0.html

Again, with the documentation, the developers would rather work on making Mach4 better instead of spending a lot of time doing documentation.  IMHO the documentation they have now is good enough because I would rather they spend time making Mach4 even more awesome.  I have noticed (since Mach4 is supposed to emulate a fanuc 21i) that I can find a lot of variables by searching them on google or finding them in books.  I did this when I made an OD Grinding Macro Program.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Painfully slow path display on large programs.

« on: May 24, 2018, 05:51:53 PM »

When we purchase computers for a machine we strip them of pretty much everything we can from the "uninstall programs" in the control panel.   All we keep are drivers.   All non essentials are out the door.   Our machines are used for production, so we like to have computers stripped of everything so it won't mess with Mach.   

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: IMTS 2018

« on: May 24, 2018, 05:07:07 PM »

Yes, I would also like to meet you guys!

We stopped by the Newfangle/Element booth in 2016 to see who was there!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Painfully slow path display on large programs.

« on: May 24, 2018, 05:05:36 PM »

Thanks for the input Steve,

Just curious, why is anything under 16 GB bad for windows 10? 

When it comes to regenerating my toolpath, I've gotten in this cycle start habit of Regen --> Cycle Start.  Just to be safe.