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Mach4 General Discussion / On the cheap MPG workaround?

« on: December 14, 2018, 01:15:01 PM »

 I find myself using mouse move quite a bit as a beginner to position the spindle mostly for engraving in M4 hobby. I use a wireless mouse and a piece of known shim stock to position the Z axis with mouse move set to 0.001 resolution. Not quite a MPG...but it helps a lot since the computer is like 3’ away from the CNC chassis. Then I had the idea if the mouse move screen were like 3X bigger, and had buttons for 0.001, 0.01 and 0.1”, resolution, it would function like a quick-and-dirty MPG I could easily see. As a member of the approaching senior set, large is better when it comes to viewing screens. With a button in the window for the probe, one could even use it to find positions directly if using metal. I opened the lua for the mouse move wizard and did not see anything obvious to resize the window...but my lua programming experience is a big zero. As a start, is there an easy way to resize the mouse move wizard window? BTW I have dual monitors.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Cannot see tool path in mach4 hobby

« on: December 14, 2018, 12:51:56 PM »

Thanks for the tip...always trying to climb the learning cliff

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Cannot see tool path in mach4 hobby

« on: December 13, 2018, 07:15:59 AM »

Had to follow up on this one. The windows 7 computer I bought did not have an advanced graphics card. Installed an NVIDEA card and all is good now.  Can see the tool path and manipulate it without issues.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4, Modbus and HuanYang VFDs

« on: December 11, 2018, 08:59:53 AM »

Thanks tommyg for the posting of the link. I was able to get my HY VFD running using the spindle talker over RS485. I also have also tried to use the  voltage output from my Gecko G540 wired up to use M4 controls, but having some configuration issues in Mach. I do like the current output feature of the spindle talker app....

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

« on: September 17, 2018, 01:34:20 PM »

While we're on the subject, if you could make the text display window larger for the engraving wizard, that would be nice. Coming up the learning curve on CNC very fast now, the more I use Mach4 the more I like it.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Cannot see tool path in mach4 hobby

« on: April 29, 2018, 08:00:50 PM »

I'm a complete noob and beginner at this.... So I got my retrofitted Isel gantry running with Gecko G540, and the UC100 port interface on Mach4 hobby. I tried loading some of the G code files like the roadrunner which I believe has a .tap extension. Am I missing something that I cannot see the tool path? I hit the compile tool path button and it shows the compiling pop up, but no tool path. Code ran just fine on the gantry...