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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool change location problem

« on: March 11, 2013, 03:34:39 PM »

Brett, I found the M6 macros and the VB script editor to view them, but I have no idea how to interpret them.  They actually have the exact same code as far as I can tell, and I don't see any distance information anywhere, so I really don't understand what they are doing.  I took screen shots but I don't see how to post them.  Can you direct me to a resource from which to learn about editing these macro?

Thanks, Glenn

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool change location problem

« on: March 11, 2013, 11:23:46 AM »

Dadof4-
That's what I've always done, and I usually don't have a problem, so I don't know why I had the problem I had the other day. 

I am going to try to change the tool change location to make things simpler, but I've never messed with the macros before.

Glenn

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General Mach Discussion / Tool change location problem

« on: March 08, 2013, 04:38:02 PM »

I'm experiencing a problem involving manual tool changes, but first I want to ask, where do you set up the default tool change location?  I'm certain I've messed with it before, but now I'm not finding it.

So the problem I had today– at the end of the first tool's operation it went off the part to what I'm assuming is the tool change location.  I had to more it more to do the tool change and when I resumed the code the tool moved further from the part, stopped, and then headed in another direction until it hit the axis limit switch.  I'm not very code savvy but there are no move command in that line that would be sending it out to the wild unknown.  After trying for quite a time I gave up and ran the code from the beginning with the second tool installed (it was small so didn't cause a problem), and it ran through that tool change to the end of the code without a problem. 

Can anyone tell me what the cause of the problem is?

Thanks,
Glenn

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Installation problem

« on: January 11, 2013, 10:16:19 AM »

Thanks.  Hopefully, everything will work as it should.
Glenn

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Installation problem

« on: January 11, 2013, 09:46:37 AM »

Hood,
Problem resolved.  I was starting the program from the shortcut on the desktop, not realizing that it was opening the default profile.  I still have one question though.  The manual suggests creating a "shortcut to Mach3 with your profile name in the command line, as shown in Fugure 2-7", but doesn't say how to do that.  I just don't have enough PC savvy.
Glenn

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Installation problem

« on: January 10, 2013, 05:36:33 PM »

I ran the configuration check facility to see if that would tell me anything and it reported no problems (though the motor check only said "Enabled motors only are checked" and "End of motor check".

Glenn

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Installation problem

« on: January 10, 2013, 05:32:27 PM »

Okay, everything is connected and the installation seems to have gone without a problem but the program doesn't seem to have taken on the settings from my custom profile (though it showed and I selected it in the Session Profile window), and the machine isn't responding in any way.

Glenn

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Installation problem

« on: January 10, 2013, 04:33:40 PM »

The main problem is solved.  For some reason, even though I am logged in as an administrator, I had to right click and select "run as administrator".  I still have the question about reconnection the machine though. 

Glenn

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General Mach Discussion / Installation problem

« on: January 10, 2013, 04:26:07 PM »

I am installing Mach3 on a newly formated computer running windows 7 32 bit.  As instructed I disconnected the CNC machine cables before running the installation.  I did not create a custom profile because I already have one saved.  I rebooted the computer and am trying to run the DriverTest.exe but when I double click the icon nothing happens (I am using the parallel port).  Also, I don't see in the instructions when you are supposed to reattach the CNC machine.

Any help?

Glenn

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Installation problem- "No Driver sensed installed"-

« on: December 14, 2012, 11:48:43 AM »

So I just read the post about the parallel port driver not working with a 64 bit system.  Can someone explain the work arounds for that situation?