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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Lathe - which motion controller?

« on: December 16, 2020, 07:43:56 AM »

i use pokeys ethernet with more then 10 machines,had some problems in part with extention of porealy cards
but they at least solve all
i real sugest

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Hotkeys/Shortcuts

« on: December 10, 2020, 02:24:57 AM »

the easy way ,if you programming in .net  make some app that read any event on keyboard ,then send the command to mach by Mach4IPC.dll

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Zero Z / probing to different offsets

« on: December 10, 2020, 01:52:01 AM »

i think do offset tool per zone its mistake,tool must be constant, its spindel per tool per machine
bater change the zone in script
for example in my machine i change the origin according board length:
if(varP<2500) then
                  G="G56"   
                end   
                if(varP>2500 and varP<2770) then
                  G="G55"   
                end   
                if(varP>2750) then
                  G="G54"   
                end   
                GCode =""
                    GCode = GCode ..G
                    mc.mcCntlGcodeExecuteWait (0, GCode) ---choose the origin acording board length

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 with analog drives not working.

« on: December 07, 2020, 11:11:12 AM »

please let us know about the analog
i never try this ,but i hade several old machines that need do retrofit and they use analog

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Lathe Home with limit and encoder index

« on: December 07, 2020, 11:10:04 AM »

yes ,sure we use G31 in tool length measure cycle
its work perfect
in pokeys its extra input ,not standard input
and yes its limit only one input ,but this i think not so important
if you want you can put some switch parallel on same input ,in any case you check always one by one
 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Lathe Home with limit and encoder index

« on: December 07, 2020, 12:26:00 AM »

in pokeys you not do nothing to use the Z index ,just wiring as diagram ,and define the homing cycle with z index
i believe other hardware also have it ,but i'm not familiar with there plug in

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: selecting output Pokeys

« on: December 05, 2020, 02:51:57 PM »

are you sure its because output maping?
i use many machines pokeys but never saw this messege

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Need Help - Mach4 errors w/ PMDX-424

« on: December 05, 2020, 02:50:26 PM »

rhtuttle
pokeys work with mach 4 both options usb and ethernet
you can read in pokeys manual but i also test it several times
but they also said bater use ethernet

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Need Help - Mach4 errors w/ PMDX-424

« on: December 04, 2020, 01:34:02 AM »

if you compare to all big cnc producer in europe even in the east
no one use usb as com device with controler
also pokeys(that i use ,and i almost not have any problem with them)that have 2 options ,recomened use Ethernet

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: GCODE stops executing

« on: November 25, 2020, 07:05:04 PM »

is that all yours gcode? nothing more?
if you try run this lines by MDI what is the result?
did you add event handler in yours screen script?