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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Help with Mach 4 controlling a PLC for tool changes.

« on: January 31, 2018, 12:19:35 PM »

Hey guys,
I used Y because at the time I Didn't know I could send over different signals to the click.   I'm curious to see if I can enable a C bit to the Click over mosbus.   That would be my goto choice.   I will test this when I get home from Texas next week. 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Help with Mach 4 controlling a PLC for tool changes.

« on: January 29, 2018, 09:41:01 PM »

I mean, In my opinion its fine, it just doesn't allow the GUI to do anything else until the move is completed.  No longer than that will take to move the machine to a "Tool Change Position" you should be fine.
But, like I said earlier in this post, Daz put that video up on modules.   Chatoicone, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that this will let you put a function() in the macro to handle this without interrupting the GUI.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Tool Life Management

« on: January 29, 2018, 08:33:40 PM »

Craig, that's a bit off what I was wanting HAHA.  But thanks for the advice!

Yeah, I know Steve.  haha Just had to ask.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Tool Life Management

« on: January 29, 2018, 08:15:33 PM »

Is there a manual on the tool life management?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Lathe wizard scripts

« on: January 29, 2018, 07:55:31 PM »

Yeah.  Especially since MachMotion did the programming for the code.  

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Help with Mach 4 controlling a PLC for tool changes.

« on: January 29, 2018, 07:43:15 PM »

Are the DROs showing the move rather than just updating the DRO when it arrives?
Using a mc.mcCntlGcodeExecuteWait can lock up the GUI until the move is finished, then the DROs will populate.
I was curious about this today, I'm guessing that's why Chaticone asked as well. 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Lathe wizard scripts

« on: January 28, 2018, 07:17:08 PM »

I didn't have any luck finding those scripts either.  I wanted to tweak a couple of things.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Help with Mach 4 controlling a PLC for tool changes.

« on: January 28, 2018, 07:10:10 PM »

Cartierusm,
First off, nice job on the lathe! It looks great and I'm glad you got it working!  

Second, Mach4 lathe doesn't read G90 or G91 like the Mill does.  G90 is implied when using X or Z.  To move incremental you use U for X and W for Z.
Example:     G00 U3.00 W3.00     is the same as       G91 G00 X3.00 Z3.00.  

Third, Although I agree with Chaoticone to move to a tool change position in the code, I can see why you would want to put it in your M6 macro.
Like Chaoticone said, it will be easier to put it in a button but having it embedded in the M6 would be cool.  You will indeed have to make a module to utilize a function in a macro.  Daz has a video on modules that you can watch, its pretty comprehensive and I was able to make a module after watching his video.  

Again.  Great work on the tool changer! 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Probing wizard - no coroutine - no wait - no PLC script

« on: January 26, 2018, 11:53:18 AM »

Macro B industrial.
Also, Didn't Daz put a video on youtube that used a coroutine that didn't lock up the gui using GCodeExecuteWait?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Is Mach4 really Hobby Material?

« on: January 25, 2018, 05:00:41 PM »

Steve,
To add to your point on threading Encoder vs single pulse.  We have lathe that is using an encoder with 300 PPR and it threads just fine we also have 2 lathes in that use a single pule per rev and they thread just as well. 

I Also agree with your point that certain features are industrial and not hobby, therefore you'll have to shell over some money for them.