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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: New Screen Mach4

« on: June 17, 2018, 06:21:39 PM »

Screen sets intended for Mach3 will not work with Mach4.

Allan

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Best practice to communicate between Lua scripts?

« on: June 16, 2018, 05:40:27 AM »

Paul

You could also try using one of the global pound variables #100--#199 as a flag. These avoid the need to  create registers. I do this to exchange data between my M6 macro and the screen script and haven't found any issues with it.

Allan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Knee Mill Conversion?

« on: June 13, 2018, 05:08:24 AM »

Dave

The figure of 50 ftlb came from a BP series 1 manual that I found on line. It has proved good for me,.

Allan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Knee Mill Conversion?

« on: June 11, 2018, 04:47:46 PM »

Dave

Are you tightening those tramming bolts to 50lbft? I used to find that the head was easily knocked out of tram when I just tightened the bolts to what felt reasonable. I was surprised when I used a torque wrench just how much tighter 50lbft was, and I always torque them now.

Allan

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Newfangled Mill Wizard / Re: Mill Wizard Feed Rate

« on: June 09, 2018, 11:02:03 AM »

Hi Ron

This has been a sore for ages and was not fixed in the latest version. It would be great if you could fix it soon, thanks

Allan

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

« on: June 01, 2018, 04:06:24 PM »

Roger

Just wondered if you have wired spindle feedback. I think that is used in determining true spindle rpm. If you look at the list of actions for the spindle speed dro you will find another entry (sorry, can't rememner its name)  that wil display the commanded rpm.

Allan

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Where to find documentation to develop scripts?

« on: June 01, 2018, 05:25:13 AM »

Jean-Pierre

Here is a text file I have compiled from various posts here by Steve Murphy. Hopefully this will help you with the screen (.scr) API calls. I am not aware of any further detail on these other than any given within the Zero Brain editor.

You might want to look up wxWidgets for some of the wx function calls.

Allan

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Using a button script to set jog increments etc

« on: May 29, 2018, 06:34:09 PM »

I hope I'm not being seen as a pain in the arse for pursuing these things doggedly.

Well you're still getting replies to your post so I guess not.

I would say that I am more inclined to accept Mach4 as is and find a way around any issues as far as I am able. But the more Mach4 can be made bullet proof the better for all of us.

Allan

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Using a button script to set jog increments etc

« on: May 29, 2018, 07:53:00 AM »

Roger

Good idea. Adding it to the Enable button should be fine assuming Config change is the only circumstance that upsets the units. Our current state of knowledge would suggest that that is the case, but when I wrote mine I was still unsure of just what caused this and didn't want to take any chances.

Allan

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Using a button script to set jog increments etc

« on: May 29, 2018, 06:21:51 AM »

striplar

If you look back at the earlier posts you will see that I reset the jog units to the default just prior to jogging. I don't recall that there is any event (e.g. signal)
 indicating that a configuration has occurred. I think this was discussed in some earlier thread.

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   local defUnits = mc.mcCntlGetUnitsDefault(inst)
    rc = mc.mcJogSetUnitsMode(inst, axis, defUnits)

I've no idea how your MPG would be impacted. I use the CS Labs module which seemingly works independently of Mach4, but presumeably takes the units default from Mach. This has never given the wrong units when jogging.

Allan