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General Mach Discussion / Estop won't release

« on: March 28, 2010, 11:38:34 AM »

Mach3 Mill will release the steppers when Estop is initiated but on Mach3 Lathe it won’t. The steppers stop but won’t release. I have to shutdown Lathe and start Mill the get the steppers to release. Soooo what little box is checked wrong or not? Ben

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General Mach Discussion / Re: HD Crashed steps changed

« on: March 20, 2010, 06:31:30 PM »

Yep, You were right on target. Thanks sooooo much. A day of checking this and that with an onset of depression and doom in sight but you saved me with one post. I'm impressed thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / HD Crashed steps changed

« on: March 20, 2010, 04:46:14 PM »

My hard drive crashed. I replaced it and reinstalled all the software Mach3 V2.48 with all my original settings. Now my 3 – 201A Gecko drives act like they are not micro stepping. Before the crash the motor tuning was set at 40,000 steps per inch with 50 speed on all 3 axis . Now I have to set them at 1600 steps per inch and 600 speed. Any ideas? TIA

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: February 27, 2009, 11:40:03 PM »

Nice job. I've enjoyed playing with it and watching it develop. Just a thought but it seems to me it would be advantageous to have the shadow image, the one after the rough cut, made available as a DXF file. You could use it to make another pass, after tool change, the other direction. Or until this one does finish passes put it into Lazy Cam. Ben

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Probing with G31 problem

« on: September 08, 2008, 05:05:49 PM »

I went back to Ver2.63 and it all works fine. Something wrong in Ver3.038. Ben

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Probing with G31 problem

« on: September 08, 2008, 01:57:45 PM »

Thanks for the help. Im using Ver R3.038. I tried both and the same result. The program hangs up on the ismoving() statement. But Z dosent move

SetUserLabel 200,"Start probing"
Code "G31 Z0.7"
While IsMoving()
sleep 100     
Wend
SetUserLabel 200,"Finished probing"

Im trying to get my probe to find the top surface and then move to Z=0.100.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Probing with G31 problem

« on: September 07, 2008, 11:11:27 PM »

Riddle back. Take out the ismoving and the code runs to end before the probe stops. Therefor I cant get the touch position. I need the ismoving but it hangs up when ever i put it in no matter where and nothing will move, the program stops at the While ismoving() statement as shown below.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Probing with G31 problem

« on: September 07, 2008, 06:54:18 PM »

No more riddle. I took out the ismoving statements and it works OK.

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VB and the development of wizards / Probing with G31 problem

« on: September 05, 2008, 06:32:20 PM »

Riddle me this.  G31Y0.7 will work in MIDI, it will advance to touch and stop, if no touch it will stop when reaching Y=0.7. As it should.

I attach it to a button. Press the button and nothing happens. Choose Operator > Edit button script> select the button, change nothing and save. The file runs as soon as I close the editor (if reset allows). But wont run when the button is pressed. Any ideas? TIA Ben

SetUserLabel 200,"Start probing"
Code "G31 Y0.7"
While IsMoving()      
Wend
SetUserLabel 200,"Finished probing"

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: July 19, 2008, 11:12:26 AM »

I found it at "ftp://MachSupport.com/". Select the LazyTurn folder and download the zip file. Good luck. Ben