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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Zeroing and extents

« on: January 09, 2020, 10:54:51 AM »

Thanks for the help with that. I will try that out......thanks

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Zeroing and extents

« on: January 08, 2020, 04:33:45 PM »

Does any one know where the items list for the various button down or up functions are stored? After looking how some of the other button functions are created I believe the display work envelope is probably correct but it does not check the box for "draw limits" in the tool path display window properties. So I assumer either the action currently selected is not the right one and not in the list or the one selected needs a script created or repaired to function properly.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Recommended CAM Software

« on: January 06, 2020, 11:20:58 PM »

UPDATE: for anyone looking for 4 axis cam check out DeskProto 7.0

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Configuring Keys In Key Board Inputs Configuration Table

« on: January 06, 2020, 11:10:16 PM »

Chad--I had the same issue with DRO not wanting to accurately record the jog rate when I used my pendant. I found that what it was doing was it would count down to what ever the initial value was set at when I started up mach4 and then count no lower. What I did to curb that issue was to set it to default to the value of 1 at start up so after I start march4 up I can use the mouse with slider,my pendant or keyboard interchangeably with no issues, the DRO value always tracks on as it should. 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Zeroing and extents

« on: January 06, 2020, 10:05:03 PM »

I believe I figured out my issue. I do not believe the "Display work envelope" button has the correct action assigned to it and probably should be a script. Or that up state is correct and the down state above it is missing the action or script needed to initiate the yellow box showing the extents.  Anyway, I do not know if that is actually correct just a hunch nor do I know what the name of the script or where it is located if there should be one to carry out the action as I state in attached picture. Any advise on that??? thanks

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Zeroing and extents

« on: January 06, 2020, 01:50:22 PM »

Ya i tried that as well the other day when I was working on it. I opened up the screen editor and looked at the display envelope push button properties and for action it lists for the down or up action, not sure which now, Display Tool Path. (I am recalling that from when I was checking it out yesterday so the exact verbiage for the action may be a little different, if it is I will update this post once I have a chance to verify.) I was looking to see if it runs a script or something that may need to be modified for something like a contrasting line color or something. I get the x,y,z coordinates and the two lines of the current x,y axis like you show in your picture examples but again I am not able to get a dotted or any line like you show for extents. My x and y soft limits are set currently at min of 5 and max of 350 and 570mm.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Zeroing and extents

« on: January 06, 2020, 11:58:00 AM »

The machine extents on mine is what does not show up, even tho I have soft limits set and enabled. Craig''s post shows a picture of machine extents represented by a yellow dashed line. When I follow his instructions on how he gets those to display, I do not get any boundary lines of the machine limits like that.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Zeroing and extents

« on: January 05, 2020, 11:21:02 PM »

I have the issue where I do not see any envelope of my machine extents as craig shows. I have limit switches on x and y and with soft limits set and on, after referencing all I still have no lines indicating my actual work extents. Any ideas???......mach4---4.2.0.4300

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Configuring Keys In Key Board Inputs Configuration Table

« on: February 02, 2019, 12:10:30 AM »

Last Update--I figured out a script for the PLC so that it will run once at the beginning and will set the actual jog rate, Jog Rate% DRO  and Slider value to 1 on start up. Now the the keys and pendent buttons will scale up and down the jog rate since it is able to start out from 1. However, if you at any time adjust the slider with the mouse on the screen, then the slider and dro will only go back down to that value you set the slider to with the mouse, if you go back and use the keyboard or pendent after that. If you slide the slider back to 1 with the mouse it will then work as intended with the buttons or keyboard.
 
Again I really appreciate your suggestions and examples as those helped me figure out what I needed to do in regards the correct syntax as the manuals found in the help folder explain things in general but don't really have any exact examples.....

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Configuring Keys In Key Board Inputs Configuration Table

« on: January 31, 2019, 10:38:34 PM »

Chad--I was able figure out from your macro the script needed for the sig library and added an if statement to stop the jog rate increment at 1 and 100 when they were reached and used inputs 1 and 2 to trigger the jog + or - command from the screen load file. I also noticed what you saw with the DRO only decreasing say to 50 or whatever and found that it was actually only counting down to the point where the dro originally started from. So if the slider and DRO were showing say 65% then when you decreased the jog rate with the keyboard key and got to 65 the dro would stop counting until I came back up to it and started going above 65, the jog rate did actually continue to degrees as I tested it on the mill to see if was actually still decreasing even tho dro was not registering it. I found if I slid the slider to 1 then it would count the full range of 1 to 100 when I used the keyboard or my pendant buttons.

I figured the easiest fix would be to just have the jog rate reset to 1 in either the load or unload screen but although I was successful in getting the actual Jog Rate to reset to 1 using either method I was not able to get the DRO and slider to reset to 1 through either one. I  believe the dro is simply stored in a registry but I am not savvy enough to know where it is or how to manipulate it at this point. I appreciate all the advice and help.