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Competitions / Re: Win a free Mach MAD Plug In
« on: February 02, 2009, 12:37:29 AM »
Am I too late  ???  :o :o
MAD is like a health pack in the middle of a CNC war!!!!! Battle of the machines  >:D

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool change macro
« on: February 01, 2009, 08:31:30 PM »
Great  ;D
You shouldnt have any problem setting the LED in the Brain.
Its too bad Hoods SetModOutput will not work because you could just do it all from the macro without a brain  ;)

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool change macro
« on: February 01, 2009, 08:20:29 PM »
I think the best is to set a USERLED to tell the Brain it is time to rotate.

In your Brain have it look for LED2000
If LED2000 is true and tool# is not equal to current tool then get tool.

Anyways here is the complete code for something like that in your Macro:

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'////MOVE THE MACHINE FOR TOOLCHANGE////
Code ("G53 G00 Z-0.200")'Move Z to position

While IsMoving() ' Wait for machine to stop
SLEEP(250)'Slow down cycle time for CPU resources
Wend

'MsgBox "Machine finished moving"

'//GET SET TOOL////
tool = GetSelectedTool() 'Gettool
SetCurrentTool( tool )'Set tool

Call SetUserLED(2000,1)'Activate Brain

'///Time wait for INPUT1
i=0'Reset timmer

Do 'Run timmer

SLEEP(500)'timmer 1/2 second intervals

 i= i+1'increment
 
 
If (IsActive(INPUT1)) Or GetOEMLED(800) Then'INPUT is active
 
  Exit Do  'exit function Continue
 
ELSEIf i>8 Then'if we have reached 4 seconds
 
 
'///Message box////
msg = "Please reseat tool and continue?"   ' Define message
title = "Tool Changer"   ' Define title
buttons = 1

response = MsgBox(msg,buttons, title)'Display message box

'///Responce was YES
If response = 1 Then' User chose Yes.

   'OK has been pressed continue
   
Else'///Responce was NO

     DoOEMButton(1021)'Estop system
     
     
End If'exit message


Exit Do  'exit function
 
End If 'INPUT ACTIVE
 
Loop




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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool change macro
« on: February 01, 2009, 03:59:48 PM »
whats in your Brain?

Here timmer that waits for 4 seconds for INPUT1 to become active after that the message will appear and if "OK "is pressed continue if "cancel" is press will Estop the sytem.

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i=0'Reset timmer

Do 'Run timmer

SLEEP(500)'timmer 1/2 second intervals

 i= i+1'increment
 
 
If (IsActive(INPUT1)) Then'INPUT is active
 
  Exit Do  'exit function Continue
 
ELSEIf i>8 Then'if we have reached 4 seconds
 
 
'///Message box////
msg = "Please reseat tool and continue?"   ' Define message
title = "Tool Changer"   ' Define title
buttons = 1

response = MsgBox(msg,buttons, title)'Display message box

'///Responce was YES
If response = 1 Then' User chose Yes.

   'OK has been pressed continue
   
Else'///Responce was NO

     DoOEMButton(1021)'Estop system
     
     
End If'exit message


Exit Do  'exit function
 
End If 'INPUT ACTIVE
 
Loop

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool change macro
« on: February 01, 2009, 03:19:41 PM »
OOOPPPs :-\ :-\  :o :o  was wondering why you stated the turret was rotating before the machine got into position....I have a error in my code:
was missing the "()"...
While IsMoving() ' Wait for machine to stop
SLEEP(250)'Slow down cycle time for CPU resources
Wend

give me a sec and will post the complete code with the 4 second check for INPUT1 one to be active

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool change macro
« on: February 01, 2009, 02:59:42 PM »
The code was more for a outline but will work.

I have a message popup for "YEP" to verify that the code is working but left this for you to decide what to do...just comment out "PRINT "YEP" and/or add a result.

Let me know what part isn’t working right and I can modify it:

I'll break it down here with description ...

1. Move Z to toolchange position:

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'////MOVE THE MACHINE FOR TOOLCHANGE////
Code ("G53 G00 Z-0.200")'Move Z to position

2. Wait for Z to get to position:

Code: [Select]
While IsMoving() ' Wait for machine to stop
SLEEP(250)'Slow down cycle time for CPU resources
Wend

3. Get requested tool and activate turret with Brain:

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'//GET SET TOOL////
tool = GetSelectedTool() 'Gettool
SetCurrentTool( tool )'Set tool

4. Wait 4 seconds and then Check to see if Input 1
*****************************Rather then waiting 4 seconds why dont we loop and check for INPUT1 to be active....if after 4 seonds it is not active popup message to user?

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SLEEP(500)'Wait to see if input becomes active
5. If Input doesn't activate popup message:

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'////CHECK INPUT/////
If Not(IsActive(INPUT1)) Then 'Is the imput active

Message box settings:

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'///Message box////
msg = "Please reseat tool and continue?"   ' Define message
title = "Tool Changer"   ' Define title
buttons = 1
response = MsgBox(msg,buttons, title)

***6. If the user is finished resetting and presses the "OK" button then do this(HEre you can comment out  ("Print"yep"):

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'///Responce was YES
If response = 1 Then   ' User chose Yes.

   ' Perform recheck issue has been fixed.
   Print"yep"


7. The user pressed "Cancel" you should estop the sytem and turn things off:

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'///Responce was NO
Else

   ' Estop system ecit.
      Print"nope"
     
End If'exit message

8. Input was active and just continue running tool changer:

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End If 'Input was active exit

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool change macro
« on: January 31, 2009, 05:41:15 PM »
You can mix this in with Hood's code for the MESSAGE BOX to let the operator activate the process again.


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'////MOVE THE MACHINE FOR TOOLCHANGE////
Code ("G53 G00 Z-0.200")'Move Z to position
While IsMoving()' Wait for machine to stop
SLEEP(250)'Slow down cycle time for CPU resources
Wend

'////GET SET TOOL////
tool = GetSelectedTool() 'Gettool
SetCurrentTool( tool )'Set tool
SLEEP(500)'Wait to see if input becomes active

'////CHECK INPUT/////
If Not(IsActive(INPUT1)) Then 'Is the imput active

'///Message box////
msg = "Please reseat tool and continue?"   ' Define message
title = "Tool Changer"   ' Define title
buttons = 1
response = MsgBox(msg,buttons, title)

'///Responce was YES
If response = 1 Then   ' User chose Yes.

   ' Perform recheck issue has been fixed.
   Print"yep"
   
'///Responce was NO
Else

   ' Estop system ecit.
      Print"nope"
     
End If'exit message

End If 'Input was active exit

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Great!  ;D

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try
SystemWaitFor(INPUT1) ' Torch Input ready to go

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Flash Screens / Re: Mach Components AGD
« on: January 26, 2009, 08:14:51 AM »
I have had a couple request for versions later then CS3.
Here is the location for users of MX2004 - Flash 8 otherwise if you are using CS2-CS4 download the above.

http://alphagraphicdesigns.com/Download/MachCompontnes_beta_1.0F8.zip

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