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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: XBox360 Controller Plugin New User Info

« on: March 02, 2016, 05:44:09 PM »

The xbox controller works flawlessly on my laptop...today tried to install on my desktop, it complains of a defective dll...
Using Win7 pro SP1, DirectX version is 11 (same as my laptop, tried the dll from laptop as well as downloading fresh from Machsupport, still get the error
defective plugin found...Windows sees the thing, I can plug back into my laptop and it works, scratching my head here...

Thanks
Leslie

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Hooray! I helped myself, or how to let Mach3 know what tool you are using!

« on: February 21, 2016, 10:26:33 AM »

As long as I a choose Mach3 ATC (automatic tool change) in VCarve, it does include an M6 command even for a single tool file! I solved a non problem! But had fun doing it! The cool part is I added to my own knowledge bank on how to make Mach3 do my bidding! What an awesome program!

Leslie

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General Mach Discussion / Hooray! I helped myself, or how to let Mach3 know what tool you are using!

« on: February 21, 2016, 10:03:53 AM »

Was playing around this morning, thought it would be useful to have Mach3 know what tool I am using even when there is no M6 in the file (single tool for the entire job)...played around with some things which did not work, then did some research on here and came up with the idea of duplicating the M6 start (gets the current tool number) and calling it M500.m1s...wasnt sure if it would work, but it did! First line in the GCode is M500 T1, which updates the Mach screen with current tool is tool 1. I have my tools in VCarve the same as Mach 3, so this worked pretty good.

Once I got it working, I was wondering if it was useful or not...What if the tool in the router was the wrong one! This doesnt help as it would merrily continue with the cut!...maybe more useful is to get the VCarve processor to put an M6 command in when there is only a single tool in the file....hmmmmm...making Mach3 do what you wnat is almost as much fun as making things with the router!

Leslie

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Movement after tool change

« on: February 13, 2016, 02:19:44 PM »

Guess I should have looked at M6End!   

Thanks!

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General Mach Discussion / Movement after tool change

« on: February 13, 2016, 12:26:06 PM »

In my workflow (simulated of course! Still using TinyG), when I get a tool change, sometimes I jog the XY a little to do the touch off with the new tool. After I cycle start again, it moves back to where it was before the tool change, then back to the next position...is there a way I can write some code to eliminate it going back to where it was, and after cycle start, go to the next position?

Seems like I should be able to grab the XY for the next line?!? Dont know how buffering and other things might effect this...maybe something simple?!? Don't know!

Thanks
Leslie

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General Mach Discussion / External Buttons

« on: January 31, 2016, 10:16:23 AM »

Looking to add a few external buttons to Mach3...what are some simple options? Second parallel? Serial cable?

They way I am working now, I only need three buttons, Touch Off Z, Cycle, and Stop. Of course once I have these I would want more! Like maybe jog buttons! Looking to get started simply at first...I dont think I need a full pendant, and I can also use the XBox controller...still would like a small physical panel with three or four buttons to get me started....

Advice/opinions are greatly appreciated

Leslie

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Doing something wrong

« on: January 26, 2016, 06:55:26 AM »

Thanks! I should have known that from my previous programming experience!

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VB and the development of wizards / Doing something wrong

« on: January 25, 2016, 11:21:17 PM »

I have the following attached to a button...code seems like it should work, i created two dros, OEM1300 and OEM1302, get a data type mismatch. When I step thru with the debugger, I am getting the correct values into XPos and YPos...can't figure what I am doing wrong..

Sub Main
   XPos=GetOEMDRO(1300)
   YPos=GetOEMDRO(1302)

      Code "G0 X" + XPos + "Y" + YPos
 

End Sub

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: VB Script triggered by Gcode?

« on: January 25, 2016, 06:03:25 PM »

Hmmmm...was going to add a simple Code "G0 X0" to the end of M6Start.m1s, and I am not able to save it (even without Mach3 running)

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: VB Script triggered by Gcode?

« on: January 25, 2016, 05:55:17 PM »

I just was thinking and poking around and found the m6 macro, I assume this is where I would put any extra code as I stated above, correct? How does Mach know to run the M6, is it programmed into the Mach3 code? Or, can others be created to look for a vertain GCode command and run a script?

Leslie