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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Version 2803 Problems

« on: December 22, 2015, 03:42:01 AM »

Firstly I would make sure you havnt set the home in position located in the config.

DazTheGas

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Screen Set Ideas

« on: December 14, 2015, 11:29:15 AM »

open your screen set in winrar or equiv and edit the screen.xml

Find "<Property name="Name">MainTabs</Property>"

And edit below it

Daz

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: help with mach4 parallel port

« on: December 13, 2015, 03:34:10 PM »

The uploaded txt file appears to be the zip but just renamed, just rename the .txt to .zip

scrap that the file is corrupt though

Daz

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: M06 not working

« on: December 06, 2015, 03:04:29 AM »

As blockhead says, do a clean install and use all defaults (default profile) and the sim as the motion controller then try, if all is ok then you can add bit by bit,

Daz

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Use probing for tool zeroing

« on: December 04, 2015, 02:47:58 PM »

ok thankyou for your time in replying.

dtg

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: M06 not working

« on: December 04, 2015, 04:08:23 AM »

just out of curiosity open up your m6 macro the function is declared as function m6() but should be function M6() in capital.

I have had this cause a problem before as lua is case sensitive.

Daz

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: M06 not working

« on: December 04, 2015, 03:35:24 AM »

Unfortunately no success using Adminstrator as login.
 Tried reinstalling as Administrator but no change.

have you tried right clicking on mach4 and using the Run As Administrator from the context menu,

Daz

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Use probing for tool zeroing

« on: December 04, 2015, 02:59:45 AM »

It works. It's not ideal but it'll do until they release the version including tool zeroing.
Here's what you do.
Set your block on top of your material.
Move the z down to a close distance from the end of the tool.
Zero your Z axis DRO.
Go to the "probing" screen.
Set the Z position to a negative amount that will result in contact with your plate.
Set "Measure Type" to "set Fixture".
Press the measure Z button.
It'll go through it's sequence, when done, the number in your Z DRO is the amount it is above your block.
Remove your block, do a G0 Z-(distance in z DRO + Block thickness)
the tool tip will be at the top of your material, set your DRO to 0.
Or you can just add the thickness of your block to the "end result" DRO number and set the Z DRO to that sum. I'm sure you get the picture with that.

??  How automatic is all that, did you actualy try the code i posted, thats automatic and basically does all that manual work for you.

Daz

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Help with Tool Change Script for Large VMC with Umbrella Style Tool Changer.

« on: December 03, 2015, 12:10:40 PM »

That's a good point, let's all join in as a community and build this.

DazTheGas

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Help with Tool Change Script for Large VMC with Umbrella Style Tool Changer.

« on: December 03, 2015, 09:50:14 AM »

Pm`d ya

Daz