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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 not stopping at manual tool change

« on: January 01, 2019, 04:44:39 AM »

Its actually more related to the M1 command in this case it seems, Mach4 has a "optional stop" toggle button.

I switched this on and it stops the program as Mach3 used to.

Seems I need to change my post processor to output M0 instead of M1 which is a mandatory stop and I dont have to worry about having the "optional stop" switch turned on.

I did sus out that "setting in Configure/Control/Tools and write your code accordingly." Though thanks

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 not stopping at manual tool change

« on: January 01, 2019, 03:11:57 AM »

Thanks for the in depth reply Craig, I do not have a ATC only manual tool changing... All I need mach to do is pause the program so i can manually change to the tool and touch off on my tool height probe.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Mach 4 not stopping at manual tool change

« on: January 01, 2019, 02:06:39 AM »

Hello all, just upgraded from Mach3 to Mach4. Using the same post processor in Fusion360 as mach3 as it doesn't list one for Mach4?

During a manual tool change Mach4 is not stopping like mach3 did ie.

M1
T4 M6

Do I need to use a different code? Or change a setting? is there a Mach4 post for Fusion?

Just reading through the manual, it says M1 is a Optional stop... using WXrouter screenset under "run ops" tab do I need to have the optional stop button on???

If so is there a way I can make it always on? Id hate to forget to turn on it once and ruin a job

Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: *** FORUM SEARCH FACILITY BROKEN ***

« on: January 01, 2019, 01:58:16 AM »

Hello, do we know when the search function is going to be fixed? extremely frustrating anytime I google a problem or how to do something with Mach3/4 I can see there is posts with the info I need but the links don't work.

Is there at least a work around?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Steppers randomly stalling

« on: December 30, 2018, 05:02:46 AM »

So just upgraded to Mach4, new pc and Ethernet Smoothstepper

I can set my steppers velocity to 10,000mm/min+ and jog around for a little while but every now and then one of the Axis will stall. (not always the same one)

But even dropping the velocity down to 6000mm/min it still randomly stalls. If I stop jogging for a second it will let me jog around for awhile again... seems random

Any idea's what would be causing this? and how to fix?

Also I used the keyboard plugin and assigned the arrow keys to jog but they are a little laggy at times and do not seem as responsive as Mach 3 was?