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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Change button color from lua code

« on: February 18, 2022, 02:06:24 PM »

The colour has to be hex so for green it would be ‘#00FF00’

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: SoftMin Error

« on: February 17, 2022, 03:20:02 AM »

I've heard the corollary from software developers dozens of times too, in my years doing software validation..."that cant happen, show me".
But software that works fine once, and differently a second time is a bug, you and thousands of other users not withstanding. They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results...what is it called when that is actually the case?
And using your train of thought...must mean there will never be another bug fix release ever. software like this is hugely complex and sometimes the smallest thing will set it off, I get that. is the problem in Mach? the post processor? maybe its the interaction between Autodesk and the post...I dont know.

Anyway, I'm done wasting time on this one. I have another workaround that I've added to the workflow to makeup for limitations in the software.

Can you tell me what values you are using for softlimits? Do you have homing offsets setup on any of the axes?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Signal Library - RPM change signal?

« on: January 31, 2022, 04:54:32 PM »

You could use the 'On Update Script' of your spindle RPM DRO to send a modbus command every time it is updated

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Using M2xx codes

« on: January 31, 2022, 04:52:58 PM »

This is taken from the parameters.ini file found in the Profile folder which should help set up the part counting with an mcode. There is also the output mc.OSIG_PRTSF for Parts Finished which may be of use..

[6700]
Desc=Setting to 1 only allows M code specified by #6710 to increment part count. (default 0)
Type=WORD
Value=0
[6710]
Desc=Set to a M code that will increment part counts with or without M02 and M30 according to #6700.
Type=WORD
Value=0
[6711]
Desc=R/W: Total number of parts.  Will change/reflect #3901 as well. (cleared on file load).
Type=DWORD
Value=130
[6712]
Desc=R/W: Total number of parts machined.
Type=DWORD
Value=131
[6713]
Desc=R/W: Number of required parts  Will change/reflect #3902 as well.
Type=DWORD
Value=0

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Screen script location/modifying outside of Mach4

« on: January 26, 2022, 02:01:30 PM »

Hit F7 on your keyboard while in ZeroBrane , it will compile it and throw up any errors with the code. It doesn't always capture everything, but most things. There is also Shift + F7 for more detail

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: program goes to top line in mach4 while running a program

« on: January 26, 2022, 01:57:23 PM »

I have noticed something similar. Does it jump up to around line 3 and then back down to where it was? For me it does it after probing/initial height sense

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: ArcPro 7866 Plasma Combo

« on: January 21, 2022, 04:08:58 PM »

There should be a sheetCAM Mach4 post with no Z moves which I think you can use. I think the ArcPro screen has DROs for setting cut heights etc. on the screen which are read in the M3/M5 macros. If not best to ask Vital Systems

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Creating (or copying) "new profile" for J Tech Photonics laser

« on: January 10, 2022, 03:09:35 PM »

Go to C:\Mach4Hobby and run Mach4GUI.exe. A popup will appear where you can select the profile to copy and then you can rename it as something else

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Homing A axis

« on: January 01, 2022, 02:10:56 PM »

If you have a 3 axis machine with 2 motors driving the Y-axis then in the motor config you will assign one motor as the Master and one as the slave. In the ESS plugin in the 'Pins Confiig' tab you can assign the input for your second home sensor as Y Slave Home, and then in the Inputs tab assign the slave motor home input to Y Slave Home.

You can see an example in the ESS setup guide found here: https://warp9td.com/index.php/gettingstarted/setting-up-the-smoothstepper-and-mach4#EssPinsConfig
If you scroll down a bit you will see they have set Port1 Pin15 to Y Home Slave & Lim
And then in the Inputs section a bit further down Motor 3 Home is set to ESS  - Y Home Slave & Lim

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Can someone tell me why Z wont go to work zero and why Axis 3 ERROR??

« on: January 01, 2022, 02:04:09 PM »

Here is a video on the Machsupport youtube channel of modifying the go to zero script. It is a bit out of date as it still uses the old lua editor but shows you how to go into the Screen Load script and edit the function.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZuEJn046Pw

Also, I don't think many people here are 'programmers', if you put a bit of time into learning where things are within the editor and try to learn some of the basic commands, Mach4 is fairly easy to customise. If you can follow the video above then you are already on the way there!