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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MDI input (Abs & Inc) through DRO to move axis....a working example

« on: June 30, 2015, 01:57:31 PM »

Found the screen set below. Looks cool.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MDI input (Abs & Inc) through DRO to move axis....a working example

« on: June 30, 2015, 01:48:39 PM »

Louie - just to be double sure. The absolute is the distance from the machine 0 and the incremental is from the current location of the head on the table?

Also, the way I am reading it is that the script for absolute is to move the X axis. If I want to make another DRO for the Y axis I replace "X" with "Y" in the script. Is that correct?

Thanks for this - it will make my life much easier.

Finally, where do I find the Blackout Screenset? I would like to take a look.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MDI input (Abs & Inc) through DRO to move axis....a working example

« on: June 30, 2015, 01:41:16 PM »

Louie - No problem with the free use of the idea. I like having people innovate around M4. It can only help all of us!

I intend to use this to move the head out of the way when I load work pieces and to move it to fixed fixturing locations on the table (I have a 7'X10' table it takes a good deal of time to move the head around when loading different size pieces. It will be great to say move X=48 to load the pieces. I also like to park the head for different functions (change tool, etc). Often it depends on where I will be working around the table.

My name is Peter and Pedio is an derivative of Fabio. When I was at career day at High School the guidance councilor never even mentioned the career choice of "Romance Novel Cover Model". I would have soooooooo gone for that one!  (It is even funnier if you meet me in person)

Is the code posted above ready for test by newbies like me?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Move buttons on the Jog tab

« on: June 29, 2015, 07:19:20 PM »

I still can't edit the screen directly. When I click in the Jog window it jumps back to the operations on the left side.

The manual editing worked!   

Thanks Patton. If you can get me your address I will send you a round TUIT. You can use these to get all of your objectionable projects done. The help is appreciated.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Move buttons on the Jog tab

« on: June 29, 2015, 02:03:58 PM »

I have been playing with the UI and I must say it is COOL!

My question is how do I move buttons on the Jog tab? I can change them on the main tab but when I try to change them on the Jog tab it thinks I am editing the entire Jog window. Sorry if this is a newby questions. If someone can point me at a "Dummies" guide for programming Mach4 I promise I will read it (comprehending may be another issue) 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Tool lenght setting

« on: June 29, 2015, 06:49:35 AM »

I am using a removable touch plate. I was hoping that someone had already written the code and could share it. I plan to put the touch plate under the current position of the bit and hit the button.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Tool lenght setting

« on: June 28, 2015, 08:35:48 PM »

Please forgive me if this is a dumb question...

I would like to know how to set up a simple automatic touch tool length setter. I have a block that will record when it is touched. I need to know how to program Mach 4 to automatically set the height when I select the button.

 
any help to a novice with Mach 4 would be appreciated
Peter

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Mach4 Toolbox / Re: Simple button script to rapid to a know position.

« on: June 22, 2015, 08:15:03 PM »

I am new to all of this so please forgive me if I am asking a silly question. Is it possible to enter coordinates into the boxes on the screen and have the machine go to those coordinates? e.g., in the X box if I enter 20 it goes to 20" (on my machine) from the X=0 position. This would make it very easy to navigate to remote work pieces.
I know I can use the MDI but that has a lot of screen changing for something that happens often.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Screen Set Ideas

« on: June 16, 2015, 06:57:32 PM »

This is a wierd request - Is it possible to make the screen behind the tool path transparent? I would like to put a camera window behind the tool path window so I can position my work piece where the tool path will be. I know this is probably a lot more complex than I think.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!

« on: June 16, 2015, 04:58:22 PM »

I am in Jacksonville Fl and have a 8'X10' routermaster. I am upgrading it from a DeskCNC to a Mach 4 machine.

I have a PMDX 410 driving a PMDX 132 (from my former set up) with gecko drivers.

I have got it joging around the table and it seems to be much smoother than DeskCNC. I ran the first script (in the air) and it seemed to work well.

Estop works, however, it is a little unexpected that the machine starts going again when the Estop button is released. I would think that I should have to reset the machine to get it to move again. I will have to get use to this.

Can't seem to get keyboard inputs button to toggle. I have not received my license code from PMDX yet so it may be disabled in demo mode. Working on getting the machine to home to the switches. I keep getting "Unexpected homing request while Mach 4 is disabled, ignoring."  - Hmmmmmm