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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need Help: Z-Axis Reversed

« on: February 19, 2009, 02:36:04 PM »

three ways to do it...

1. Swap your stepper motor cables, for the same winding. Just swap A and A'

2. In mach go to motor ports and pins and in your Z axis change your dir low active settings to the opposite it is right now.

3. and probably the easiest, go to choming/limits under the config menu, and check the reversed checkmark for your z axis.

hope that helps
regards
Fernando

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General Mach Discussion / Re: CNC'ing both quill and knee

« on: February 19, 2009, 11:20:56 AM »

What kind of tooling are you guys using to get repeatable tool lenghts with a semi automatic toolchange?
Are your drawbars powered too?

Regards
Fernando

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General Mach Discussion / Re: What would you like to see in a new Mach3 User's Guide?

« on: February 19, 2009, 12:31:11 AM »

Im thinking it might be a good idea to have a section with a tutorial on using mach3, for operators.
On how to operate a machine controlled by mach, not setting it up, but actually runing it.

BEst regards
Fernando

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 and a tube bender

« on: February 18, 2009, 06:49:20 PM »

Damm! two replies while i was typing mine!

great group of guys we got here!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 and a tube bender

« on: February 18, 2009, 06:02:02 PM »

Hi,
on Screen designer you have to add a button, and on OEM code put an 11

that should change to page 11 once you press it.

Regards
Fernando

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 and a tube bender

« on: February 18, 2009, 05:02:20 PM »

YEs you can add an M3 and an M4 button...

Just add the button in screen designer...
in mach edit the buton script and put in it:

Code "M3" (or m4)

and save the script... no need to fiddle with file names... otherwise it wont save it to the button.

Regards
Fernando

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 and a tube bender

« on: February 18, 2009, 12:08:12 AM »

I think the condition is implicit to be a 1 when no argument is used.

Scott... wouldnt a Brain be simpler to implement than this?
its late now and my head is closed for business right now...

Ill give it a try tomorrow.

Regards
Fernando

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 and a tube bender

« on: February 16, 2009, 05:00:58 PM »

Well,
you have to add an OEMbutton, if using screen3 you can add the following macro to it: assuming the oem led is number 1200

If GetOEMLED(1200) then
SetUserLED(1200,0)
else
SetUserLED(1200,1)
end if

This will toggle led 1200 on and off

if you are using screen4 then add the button on the screen, then go to mach and click edit button script in the operator menu, you can add the script there and click save...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 and a tube bender

« on: February 16, 2009, 04:08:29 PM »

Ok, ill give this a try.

Your macro pump has two conditionals, this conditionals need to be at least one true to get into the loop, since the starting stage of your machine is with both LEDs off, then it never gets into the loop that turns the CW and CCW outputs on.

A quick way i can think of is to add another OEM button and OEMled to your screen, have that new button toggle the new led on and off,

Now on the conditionals
"if GetOEMLED(164) or GetOEMLED(165) then 'if the CW or CCW led is on"

add another OR that looks for that new led,

and in the single conditionals you have later in the macro:

 if GetOEMLED(164) then 'if the spindle CW led is on.      and
 if GetOEMLED(165) then 'if the spindle CCW led is on.

add an AND conditional to look for that new led.

this way your machine will not move unless you have that LED active, and will only start moving when it is active.

hope it makes sense

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 and a tube bender

« on: February 13, 2009, 05:04:26 PM »

im out of ideas!!
sorry friend....