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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: USB to Parallel port motion controller for Mach 4

« on: September 03, 2021, 03:27:25 PM »

If you are going to change I suggest getting away from the USB and going to Ethernet.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: The screen (trajectory)

« on: September 01, 2021, 08:37:49 AM »

You can change the color and thickness of the lines.

Go to Operator then Edit Screen
Click on the window.
Under properties on the bottom left scroll down.
You see the colors abnd the line Widths.
Change if you want.
After a change go to Screen then Save Screen
Go to Operator and exit Edit Screen
Restart Mach

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Doing deadly unexplained rapid moves after Manual Tool Change

« on: August 11, 2021, 05:23:52 PM »

I think it has to do with the tool length offsets.
Not sure though.
I am at the end of what i can suggest.
Maybe one of the big brains will know.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Doing deadly unexplained rapid moves after Manual Tool Change

« on: August 11, 2021, 02:53:25 PM »

Well the X is going to a negative position after the second tool.
Do you actually have room in the negative area before hitting the limit?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Doing deadly unexplained rapid moves after Manual Tool Change

« on: August 11, 2021, 02:13:42 PM »

You also might want to try putting ToolSetCurrent before ToolChangeManual

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Doing deadly unexplained rapid moves after Manual Tool Change

« on: August 11, 2021, 01:56:25 PM »

The problem might be the tool table.
If your gcode has tool numbers and heights the tools will have the heights associated with what is in the tool table.
If your code does not include populating the tool table that might be the problem.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: About Dereference All Axes

« on: August 11, 2021, 10:00:41 AM »

Dereference All Axis removes the machine home position from Mach.
If you have home switches and you Reference the axis Mach has a starting point.
This starting point can then use the Soft Limits and other functions.
If you have your machine set to Reference in place then when you Reference an axis it is just where it is currently sitting.
Hope this helps

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Setting Zero Fixture Z to zero using an external button

« on: August 09, 2021, 08:43:59 AM »

In your Mach4 folder there is a file called Mach4CoreAPI.chm
That has most of them

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Setting Zero Fixture Z to zero using an external button

« on: August 06, 2021, 09:52:00 AM »

Try this;

mc.mcAxisSetPos(inst, 2, 0.0)

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: How do I make "Go to Work 0" work?

« on: August 05, 2021, 04:35:43 PM »

Colin,

Go to Operator then Edit Screen.
Under Screen Tree Manager select the top item.

Under Properties click on Icon with the lightning bolt (center)
Click on the code to the right of  Screen Load Script then click on the button with 3 dots.

Scroll down to the GoToWorkZero
Edit
Save Screen under Screen
Exit Screen Edit
Close Mach and restart