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General Mach Discussion / Re: Jog Buttons reversed in Mach 3 after crashing Y axis

« on: June 25, 2016, 08:30:39 AM »

OK. I get that. What other SW do you use? I have built a prototyping cnc mill as an inventor/amateur scientist. I suppose it would not be out of line to create a screen set for manual milling and drive the table to the work for quick and dirty mills?

But I def. get what you are saying about the control point. Makes perfect sense to me.

Any ideas on why my direction involuntarily flipped?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Jog Buttons reversed in Mach 3 after crashing Y axis

« on: June 25, 2016, 07:53:33 AM »

Not sure this answered my question. What made Mach 3 flip the direction of jog? Or is something else afoot.
But you create another question;
Should I not be moving the table intuitively in the direction I want to jog it i.e. up arrow moves table toward the column(Y++), down arrow away(Y--)? That was the way it was set up and seems normal when doing manual milling.

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General Mach Discussion / Jog Buttons reversed in Mach 3 after crashing Y axis

« on: June 20, 2016, 01:38:44 PM »

Hi guys,

Looking to glean info from seasoned vets in this forum. I bought a LMS 3990 and CNC Fusion kit. Homebuilt CNC with Mach 3 on Windows XP.
Last night I was jogging the X, Y Z axis and thought I set the 0 in a safe place, so I hit the button onscreen "Go to O" and my Y axis crashed into platform so I hit the soft stop/reset button.

Then when I Reset it, my Y buttons were reversed up moved the table down and vice versa. What should I do? I went into hot keys and hit Y++ to the Up arrow and Y-- to the Down arrow and it did not work. Y++ should be moving the table away from me? Previously the arrows worked in the way I wanted to jog the table.

Thoughts?

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: 3020T and Win10 64 bit

« on: June 13, 2016, 01:56:04 PM »

Perhaps goto the Warp9 site (http://www.warp9td.com/index.php/sw) check that you are using their recommended version of Mach3 and their lastest plugin. Download and run their SCU and follow the onscreen instructions (there is also a video showing how to use the SCU, if required).

Hope this helps.

Tweakie.

I think what may have happened is when I installed M3 I did not restart the puter. In the M3 manual it says this can create problems. I restarted after I installed W9 Smoothstepper. According to the documentation Mach can get screwy if not restarted after install.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: 3020T and Win10 64 bit

« on: June 12, 2016, 08:44:15 AM »

Hey guys. I have Windows 7 x 64 bit with Mach 3 installed and a warp9 ESS Smooth stepper. The ESS is communicating (According to their documentation with the LED's) but i can't get the stepper motors to jog. Fair warning, I am a ground zero noob.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Mach 3 Migration from XP-32 to Win7-64

« on: June 12, 2016, 08:37:07 AM »

Any luck on this? I had Windows 7x64 ultimate OS and am building a CNC. I figured I would try Mach 3 first as everyone seems to use this.

I got the ESS from warp 9 and it is communicating but I cannot move the stepper motors. I am not sure what to troubleshoot as this is my first build and I am a noob. But I don't have the magic happening at the stepper motors yet.

I am going to attempt to use Mach 4 in a little bit on W7x64.