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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: ATC Air Pressure Sensor Hardware

« on: February 21, 2023, 07:12:30 PM »

if i understand you well you want add safety device avoid spindle open while run?
if so
there several safety loops i suggest
but first its to separate the air valve of the "spindle open" not in same block as all other valves(this avoid the feedback pressure come from the back door"
after ...if you want can add some more

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Rotary Axes in Radians vs Degrees?

« on: February 20, 2023, 12:27:15 AM »

Do your have photos of toolpath display for 5 axis that you would like to see? ( Toolpath not simolation )

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Rotary Axes in Radians vs Degrees?

« on: February 19, 2023, 05:02:11 PM »

craig do you use the 4ax as rotate that need calculate kinematic or only as curve surface?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Closed Loop Monitoring of Mach4?

« on: February 19, 2023, 10:00:35 AM »

we make many similar  function like that ,for example we connect the driver to get absolute position by external c# app
actually what should happened as i understand yours needed ,is that the image + decissi0n will be done on yours external app
and then yours app will generate the gcode and run the mach according the results
what i try to say you should look at mach yours executer while all yours toolpath and design will be external
mach have good Api and can do it very easy
only one point i didn't  solve
when you force mac load nc file  its take time to mach to load and generate ,there is no any way to get from mach signal that its finish and can run
after long try ( mach help didnt help) only way i found is deley  amount of time constant time+ time according file length
but mach its real powerful for this Api

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Z home tripped

« on: February 12, 2023, 11:25:36 PM »

is yours problem with the input solved?
if yes ,good
if not please tell me first do you need in yours card give "0" or "24v" as input signal to the card?
from long exprience its very very important isiiue
the"0" its big entrance for trouble  with pokeys we have option to add isolated card that we can choose each input
this solve many many NPN  sensors problems now we can use PNP like big boys

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: What is Out-Of-Band Motor?

« on: February 12, 2023, 11:16:02 PM »

in pokeys we have 8
actualy i used until now 7
because i had 4axis(not motors ,axiss),one lathh, the hood its also drive by steper and the magazine
only 4 where run simoltanny in Gcode
but now we build the 5 axis that 5 simulate + hood+ magazine
but i don't remember i define it as OOB

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Mach4 General Discussion / new version be carfule with Xhc Mpg

« on: February 12, 2023, 11:08:17 PM »

i use the plug in for the Xhc almost 1 year with the Ftp versions without any bugs
i use the 4 axiss Xhc and manage only one button as custom Gcode to open the spindle for manual tool change
BUT last week i have in my Mdi line M3 S 1500 that i run before and stop
then i want change tool and when i press the custom button on the remote its do 2  ,open the spindle and immediately start rotate
very very dangerous
after that i disconect inverter and make some test and i confirm that several times(not all times) when you press
on the buton on the remote its run M3 or M4 sometimes for several second
my VFD its 0-10v plus relay so its cant be noise its bug command that Mach create
please guys take care for this its very dangerous,and befor this new version i never mat such problem

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: ATC Macro adjustment for reversed tool forks

« on: February 12, 2023, 10:53:27 PM »

there several steps i think you must add
1.divied the speed go down to clamp into 3 speed ,first from top to tool hight,then go inside 66% of thr tool then final push litle bit the fork
2 very important for safety you didn't check the tool clamp sensor  this is basic safty step(not give up its yours life)
  and for machine safety you didn't check that spindle its already open and can load(many reason can make this fork not open enough)
3.the tool position you arrange inside the script this not good way ,because you must try avoid each time need check to recompile the script ,this can bring mistake
 4. i you will use more tools then the magazine you can have big mass because 2 different tools will get same name
  its much bater give each tool its number and define in external GUI or even in Lua the reference which tool loacte where
  then you need cheack before load that its real exisst
Good Luck

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: What is Out-Of-Band Motor?

« on: February 12, 2023, 10:34:50 PM »

do you mean in other words the system can handle max 6 axes interpolation the rest can work only as OOB ,my sample is the tool magazine
that in our case its carusale  with 20 tools power by servo
? is that correct?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Just starting out

« on: February 01, 2023, 02:55:33 AM »

If you need my help ( I have Chinese agent help me alot ) send me on private