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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: lua error

« on: October 03, 2018, 10:28:14 AM »

Thank you for sharing that, I'll give it a watch. I had three users with questions about this just over the last two days, so I wanted to make something quick to show how to fix it.

-Bryanna

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: lua error

« on: October 03, 2018, 08:10:58 AM »

Madi,

Can you tell me more about what is happening with the DRO? I'm not sure what you mean by 'unstable'. You can create a copy of your profile by going to Help>Support>Package Current Profile. Then you can import that back into Mach4 and call it whatever you'd like. That status bar message is not something that affects the usefullness of the profile itself, it's just a label that got stuck. You can change it using the screen editor if you'd like it gone completely. I can send you an explanation on how to do that as well.

As for the 'Go to Work Zero' button, it needs to be customized. The default command behind that button is "G00 X0 Y0 A0" but it can be changed. One of our techs made a video on how to do that here: https://youtu.be/SZuEJn046Pw

Edit: I made a video (link below) showing another customer how to remove the label from the Status bar. If a real error message is being displayed, it will also appear in the 'History' window. In this customer's case, and in yours I suspect, you won't see the error message there. To delete the label from the Status bar, follow along with the video and you shouldn't see it again.

https://youtu.be/NsxPzRLb3dc


Best wishes,
Bryanna

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: lua error

« on: October 02, 2018, 12:02:21 PM »

Hello Madi,

In one release, that error message appeared in the Status bar. It shouldn't be there, but it is not actually reporting a current error. If you click the 'History' button and open that window, you'll see that no error messages have triggered. Hitting 'Clear' in that window will remove the message from the Status bar.

Apologies,
Bryanna

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4+ Darwin LPT- motor doesn´t work

« on: October 01, 2018, 09:34:13 AM »

Did you try changing the Active Low setting for your steps pins? That is a pretty common cause for motor troubles.

-Bryanna

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Issues with special characters (like German ä,ö,ü) while opening files

« on: September 19, 2018, 08:08:17 AM »

Hello,

You can use G51 to apply scaling or mirroring effects to your g code. Check out the g code programming manual (link below) for details on how to implement that feature. Mach4 follows industry standard much more closely than Mach3 and this method of scaling was used intentionally. The information on G51/G50 begins on page 43 of the g code programming manual.

http://www.machsupport.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Mill%20GCode%20Programming.pdf

-Bryanna

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: looking for more fonts for Mach 4 engrave wizard

« on: September 17, 2018, 08:34:10 AM »

Hello,

Font files need to be converted into Lua in order to be used within the Font Engrave wizard. I will ask around here and see if I can get my hands on the means to make some new fonts.

-Bryanna

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 and Constant velocity...

« on: September 06, 2018, 08:26:31 AM »

Hi Ash,

I think what you're looking for is the CV Tuning Wizard. In Mach4, go to Wizard>Select Wizard>McCVTuningWizard and check it out. It allows you to set your maximum feedrate and choose a maximum angle for which CV will be applied. It also has a nice little writeup for you about CV in general. Hope this helps!

-Bryanna

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4demo & csmio-ip-s HELP

« on: September 06, 2018, 08:20:13 AM »

Hello,

A few things to check: make sure you are not running third party antivirus software (Bitdefender, Malwarebytes, Norton, etc.) as they can sometimes prevent Mach4 from accessing necessary file. Likewise, you need to run Mach4 as an administrator. To do that, right-click on the shortcut and go to Properties, then Advanced, then select 'Run As Administrator' (if you're using XP the steps are a bit different, but that's the general idea). Next, make sure Mach4 is run from your C: Drive and is called Mach4Hobby. If it's somewhere else or the name of the directory was changed, that can cause issues like what you're seeing. One last thing to check is that your motion controller is connected. I am not very familiar with the one you're using (have not used it personally and only tested it a handful of times) but some motion controllers need to install firmware updates once connected in order to use them. One example of that is the UC100. I hope one of these helps!

-Bryanna

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Mach4 General Discussion / Windows 7/Parallel Port Crash-- Fix

« on: September 05, 2018, 10:39:44 AM »

A recent Windows 7 security update has affected those who use Mach3 and Mach4 with a parallel port connection. Basically, when the parallel port is used to control your machine it "takes over" the operating system and the new update does not like it, so it crashes the whole system. The following is a fix that does not require you to uninstall any updates or upgrade to an external motion controller. These are still valid options, but this is quick, easy, and should have you back up and running in no time. Here are the instructions, which I'll break down for you below:

 

Go into command prompt with administrator rights and paste and add the below registers.

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" /v FeatureSettingsOverride /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" /v FeatureSettingsOverrideMask /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f

Restart the computer for the changes to take effect.

(You do not have to change MinVmVersionForCpuBasedMitigations.)

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4073119/protect-against-speculative-execution-side-channel-vulnerabilities-in

 

You can follow along with these instructions at our support video here: https://youtu.be/C_O6TQhgMlA

1.) Go to your start menu and start typing 'cmd'. The command prompt (or cmd) option should appear right away. Right click and select 'Run as Administrator.' You need to be using an administrator account as well.

2.) Once you've opened the command prompt and see 'Administrator' along the top, you're almost there. Copy the first line that starts with 'reg add'. Right click in the command window and select 'Paste'. Then hit your 'enter' key.

3.) Repeat the previous step with the second line of code: copy and then paste into the command prompt window on the next line. Hit 'enter'.

4.) You should received a successful message after each line. If you see an error message regarding your access being denied, you should double check that you are logged in to an account with administrative privileges and that you are running the command prompt as an administrator (see step 1).

5.) Restart your computer.

6.) Open Mach3 and get to work.

7.) Happy CNCing!


Thank you to MachMotion for sharing this fix with us.
-Bryanna

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General Mach Discussion / Windows 7/Parallel Port Crash-- Fix

« on: September 05, 2018, 10:39:19 AM »

A recent Windows 7 security update has affected those who use Mach3 and Mach4 with a parallel port connection. Basically, when the parallel port is used to control your machine it "takes over" the operating system and the new update does not like it, so it crashes the whole system. The following is a fix that does not require you to uninstall any updates or upgrade to an external motion controller. These are still valid options, but this is quick, easy, and should have you back up and running in no time. Here are the instructions, which I'll break down for you below:

 

Go into command prompt with administrator rights and paste and add the below registers.

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" /v FeatureSettingsOverride /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" /v FeatureSettingsOverrideMask /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f

Restart the computer for the changes to take effect.

(You do not have to change MinVmVersionForCpuBasedMitigations.)

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4073119/protect-against-speculative-execution-side-channel-vulnerabilities-in

 

You can follow along with these instructions at our support video here: https://youtu.be/C_O6TQhgMlA

1.) Go to your start menu and start typing 'cmd'. The command prompt (or cmd) option should appear right away. Right click and select 'Run as Administrator.' You need to be using an administrator account as well.

2.) Once you've opened the command prompt and see 'Administrator' along the top, you're almost there. Copy the first line that starts with 'reg add'. Right click in the command window and select 'Paste'. Then hit your 'enter' key.

3.) Repeat the previous step with the second line of code: copy and then paste into the command prompt window on the next line. Hit 'enter'.

4.) You should received a successful message after each line. If you see an error message regarding your access being denied, you should double check that you are logged in to an account with administrative privileges and that you are running the command prompt as an administrator (see step 1).

5.) Restart your computer.

6.) Open Mach3 and get to work.

7.) Happy CNCing!


Thank you to MachMotion for sharing this fix with us.
-Bryanna