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General Mach Discussion / card recognition

« on: December 03, 2014, 07:55:41 PM »

Mach3 doesn't ask me at startup (as before did) for the card installed
I went to Function Cfg's - reset card option in menu and it shows in a window: Next time startup the program will ask you...
Nevertheless it doesn't ask and the card is not recognized.
How can I solve this without reinstalling?  I had motors and card configurated and tested and I don't want to begin again,

Is there a way it doesn't ask and it works with the card?
(xulifeng 250)

Thank you
L J

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VB and the development of wizards / Zero support from CNCDIY

« on: November 08, 2014, 02:08:24 AM »

i bought an AKZ250 usb card. two steppers and installed Mach3
In works well with motors and limit switches, they are reflected in simulated leds of config tab
i have configured supossedly right the pins, not low active, but the response of the card is incorrect,
            volts in card
output     off    on
   1         0.5   0.8
  2-5       0.5   0.1
I wonder if that correspod to a damaged card, if it is replaceable the corresponding chip in the card or another thing. Do somebody knows how to solve this?

CNCDIY doesn't have any support team answering, it seem they are very smart saving even the salary of the support team.
I complaint about it and instead of trying to solve, they blocked my account.  So if somebody is evaluating to buy this card or equipment, consider their null support and inexistent client care, frequentlly found in oriental companies!!

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: deactivate undefined or a bad spirit

« on: November 07, 2014, 12:48:28 AM »

I named this machine configuration "PlasmaC1".   Saved the file PlasmaC1.xml and all the last month changed files in Mach3 folder.  I reinstalled Mach3 and replaced PlasmaC1.xml in Mach3 folder as it is told somewhere one have to do, and surprise!, all my configurations lost!!  in spite of being sure the file xml was replaced.   So I did the windows restore procedure to a previous point, recovered all and my configuration is right but the things doesn't work well.   Some sugestion with these outputs and inputs?

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: deactivate undefined or a bad spirit

« on: November 07, 2014, 12:41:05 AM »

Excuse me please.  deactivatesignal is the right sentence.  And I didn't make the precision about the negative values are in Sheetcam.  But anyway the problem is that the card doesn't reflect activation with voltage change to 5 V (it is high activated), the simulated led blinks in red, and so the comunication is not acomplished. 

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / deactivate undefined or a bad spirit

« on: November 06, 2014, 07:03:33 PM »

I'm trying to interface the akz250 card from cncdiy with Mach3 and a circuit for Z control.
The problem is VB editor and macros are not doing stable things.
1. When activating, the simulated led en diagnostics screen flash instead of being stable, as the limit switches who give stable led behavior.  It is red, not green (is it right?), multimeter doesn't show a change in the terminal.   It is setted in the config pins outputs.
2. Trying to deactivate says DeActivate is not a defined function as you can see in the attachment

I have to finish that but there is a bad spirit or something avoiding it.

Can somebody guide me to solve it?

When closing the program appeared the window with artcode 9991 as you can see in the other image

Maybe the program is corrupted and have to reinstall, in this case,  Is it enough to save and replace the plasma1.xlm to restore configuration?

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / macros ignored

« on: November 06, 2014, 04:25:48 PM »

I had the mach3 configured so, when I activate an output from VB editor, it began to flash in red, opposite to for instance, the limit switches who are reflected as a stable green.
Then something happened, and Mach3 doesn't do anything with outputs.
I look for the solution in several ways, and found in the xml an option "Ignore macros" with a "1" set

1. Is there somewhere in Mach 3 configuration where I can change this?
could be it a problem of trying things with M6?

2. The led in diagnostics flash in red instead of simply be stable.  Do it mean the signal is flashing or something? 

Thank you

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Simple homing How?

« on: November 06, 2014, 11:48:18 AM »

Thank you very much.  It is really simple!

But why so many people are making macros for homing?
What is that of "macropump"? What is the difference with a simple macro?

The screen to set the table and soft limits, puts negative values, What can I do?

L J

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VB and the development of wizards / Simple homing How?

« on: November 06, 2014, 10:18:12 AM »

1- I'm a beginner in Mach3. I'm using an old mechanics of a photoscope to make a new CNC plasma cutting machine.
I implemented a torch height control with a dc motoreductor, so I don't need to control a 3rd step motor for it, except for some signals.

I'm up to begin to use it and have to define how to home both axis.

I have rode the forum and found several posts about homing but I don´t know in a simple manner how to home the system because there are aparently many ways to do it:

*Macropump
*Get OEMLed
*Dobutton 23, 24
*G24
*G28
*while ismoving()
So I'm confused about what I have to do to home the equipment, two axis.
I have now two microswitches wich I'd like to use for simplicity but if necessary I have in a drawer some optical sensors that I would have to complement with a little circuitry to get more precision.   The thing is that I'd like to begin asap and then make some improvements.   

What would you think is a simple, fast but not bad solution for homing?

2- I have tryed to set the homing limits in the screen to it of Mach3 and it puts automatically negative quantities, Is there a way to avoid it?  Because if the Gcode comes all with positive coords, the usable area would be restricted to 1st quadrant.

Thank you very much for your assistance.
Luis J

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VB and the development of wizards / AKZ250 CNCDIY INPUTS AND OUTPUTS

« on: November 04, 2014, 05:02:30 PM »

I have an AKZ250 card working well with its step motors and limit swithches, but I need to interact with a Z control that I did.

Seeing the examples in the macro subfolder of Mach3 I wrote the next, but it refuses the "#" sintax:
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#define input3 3  rem "cut position"
#define input4 4  rem "up"

rem output 2=plasma trigger output 1=cortar

if IsActive(4) then
 
   ActivateSignal(1)   rem "cut"     this make torch down
   ActivateSignal(2)   rem "plasma trigger"

   rem delay
   SystemWaitFor( 0.6 )
   
    while not isActive(3)
        SystemWaitFor( 0.1 )
    wend

DoSpinCW()

rem now the X,Y program can proceed  (height will be controlled by the Z ctrl circuit I did)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
I have rode macro sections
I found for instance "ActivateSignal(n)" in Macro M50
It apparently needs a definition but the example has a #define line who is dettected as an error by the VB editor and I don't know where is the documentation of this characteristic of Mach3, wich functions are available in these macros, syntaxis, specially,   ¿Do Mach3 uses the macros in macro subfolder as a default? or what has to be done in order to get this code executed?

How can I make that M3 set on (ttl high) an output of the card or read an input?  the card is working well with its motors and receive well the limit switches, and Mach3 reflect this switch activity changing the condition in the diagnostic tab leds     How can I put in a variable the value of an input of that card?  I saw the IsSignalActivate but I don't know if it works with this environment.

Somebody told me to use the M7 M8 M9 to interact but I'm in the way to make some tests.

Thank you very much for your help

Luis J