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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Mach3 won't load new g codes

« on: December 26, 2017, 04:23:31 PM »

hello again. I just came back from after the holiday and will try to create anew gcode to see if you guys have better luck with it that I over here, now the odd part is that when I pot-process the gcode it doesn't give me any error messages but as soon as I open sheetcam this is what the debug log shows
1:13:57 PM: Loading C:\Program Files\SheetCam TNG\plugins\mach\Mach.dll ... OK
1:13:57 PM: Loading C:\Program Files\SheetCam TNG\plugins\RotaryPlasma\rotaryhelper.lua ... OK
1:13:57 PM: Loading C:\Program Files\SheetCam TNG\plugins\sim\Sim.dll ... OK
1:13:57 PM: Loading C:\Program Files\SheetCam TNG\plugins\svg\SVG.dll ... OK
1:13:57 PM: Loading C:\Program Files\SheetCam TNG\plugins\text\Text.dll ... OK
1:13:58 PM: Loading C:\Program Files\SheetCam TNG\plugins\USBCNC\options.lua ... OK
1:13:58 PM: Unable to find a valid plugin in C:\Program Files\SheetCam TNG\plugins/VCarve
1:13:58 PM: Plugin failed to load
1:14:00 PM: Connected to update server

I will upload the new gcode and hopefully one of you guys will be able to help me out. thanks for the help.

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Mach3 under Vista / Mach3 won't load new g codes

« on: December 22, 2017, 01:16:54 PM »

Hello everyone, its been a while since I last asked a question on here,  here I am today, I've been using sheetcam to create my g codes for the past 1.5 years with the same software version up until last week I did an update on it while working on a new job, long story short I finished my new job and I created the g-code perfectly as usual,  mach3 loaded and cut my last g-code just fine also every other job created before last week is working excellent on mac3, now the problem I'm running into right now is that any new jobs that I create (I'm using inkscape to create drawings) don't seem to be translated into g-codes anymore. I run the post processor on sheetcam and it doesn't show any problems when its done processing, I save new  files as I've been doing for the past 1.5 years and everything seems to be working smoothly until I try to load the new g-code on mach3, nothing comes up except for one blinking dot on the right screen where y and x meet, mach3 doesn't show any error messages at all and on the left screen it shows the drawing that I created but no movement or commands at all.
To give you more details on what I noticed after doing the update on sheetcam , here's a few  error messages that where popping up.
after opening sheetcam and start creating a new g-code I would get this message "sheetcam has encountered a problem and it needs to close" after clicking ok it gave me this "Microsoft visual c ++ runtime library error" every time it  closed,  after that  I took a look on the debug log and I started noticing these messages    "postprocessor ok", " action failed, plugin not licensed"  etc.
does anybody have any ideas about what could be causing this problem. or what does any of those messages mean?, I consider myself new and ignorant  to this but any help will be appreciated.

Everything has been restored to the way it was before the update but no luck, mach3 won't load any new g-code created but the old ones work perfectly. please help.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Steeper y stopped working for no apparent reason

« on: May 07, 2017, 02:17:40 PM »

Thanks for the feed back Rich, I'm gonna go ahead and give it a try tomorrow when I go back to the shop. I hope I can figure this out in the next couple weeks.
Now let's just say that I had been using the same set up since last year and it had been working just fine, how likely could it be that my set up is wrong  now?  If I used it previous ocations without any issues.
Thanks for your time. 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Steeper y stopped working for no apparent reason

« on: May 05, 2017, 02:29:54 PM »

Hi there..  when Mach 3 is running and I try to rotate  them whith the command Keys they just won't move, They show the same behavior I can hear them trying to move but they seem to lock up like something is holding them  still  and they are quite noisy, i also noticed that the power hissing noise is louder on those two steppers that on the other 2 functional ones, "a & z".
So I'm not sure what could be the issue here, like I said previously I had just finished a job and it just decided to not move at all. I can easily move every single axis by hand when Mach3 is on emergency mode or tuned off. But not when is actually running .

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General Mach Discussion / Steeper y stopped working for no apparent reason

« on: May 04, 2017, 12:07:02 PM »

Hello everyone, here is my problem I hope one of you can help me, so I am running a hypertermax 65 plasma on CNC, we just got this plasma table last year from some guy out of state so we don't have any local support to turn to and the guy who sold us this just went out of business