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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: November 04, 2017, 07:56:18 AM »
Does anyone have the parallel port working with Mach4. Specifically with the charge pump activated? I'd be interested in comparing configurations.
I have been in contact (for several months) with NFS support and they have confirmed that (as I observed) the charge pump signal from Darwin initially comes up and then fails just after Mach4 startup. It requires a toggle of the enable / disable screen button to get it going again. This would not be a big problem except that when if fails the DRO's still change but the axis' do not move because the lack of charge pump signal has disabled the drives. So then the disable/enable trick has to be done and a re-calibrate is required.
 In my latest exchange with support they have indicated that they have no (financial) interest in working further to correct the issue and suggest I purchase a motion controller instead. Fair enough I guess but it makes me wonder why they continue to sell the parallel port plug-in (Darwin) when it has this bug. Then it makes me wonder - if they have sold more than the one I have - what have others done to make it work. Maybe I've missed something.
 So, Is the parallel port finally dead?

Sage


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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Shuttle Pro plugin - When?
« on: April 29, 2016, 09:53:12 AM »
The outer wheel is spring loaded. You should be able to hold it in a particular direction and the axis should move accordingly. The farther you rotate it the faster the axis is supposed to move.
The inner wheel continuously rotates and gives you one jog increment per click.
(At least that's the way it works in Mach3 and the way I want it). I believe I could not get that action in Mach 4 but I didn't play with it much. Keep me posted.

Sage


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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Shuttle Pro plugin - When?
« on: April 27, 2016, 01:50:40 PM »
Rogerfries:

 I think you'll find that the Shuttle Pro is supported now in Mach 4. I'm way behind in my updates but it was there several months ago with no additional drivers to install. Just look in the addon's menu. Brian did a nice job on it. The setup was easy and pretty comprehensive. You can define each button in the setup. Give it a try and report back.
  BUT I believe last time I tried it, it didn't support touch-off / Z-zero so it was a no-go for me. I won't use Mach4 without touch off. I believe I also had trouble with the DRO's acting odd (not resetting to exactly zero or something). Eventually I might give it another try and see what's been corrected. It was just easier to avoid the frustration and stick with Mach3.


Sage



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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Feature Request
« on: October 28, 2015, 07:35:24 AM »
Ok. Thanks. I'll try to find some time to look it over.

Sage

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Feature Request
« on: October 27, 2015, 05:45:11 PM »
That's what the original post said. I didn't know there were examples in M4 so It didn't click - Sorry. I'll take a look.
Thanks
Problem is I'd like the sounds back as well (and a few other things). But not sure I want to learn a new language. Too bad it isn't a config setting. Oh well.
I'm sure I'll figure it out. It seems a lot of "nice to have" stuff as per Mach3 will now be up to the user to program. So I guess I'll get on board and learn Lua.

Thanks

Sage

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Feature Request
« on: October 27, 2015, 05:02:24 PM »
How about a link to the examples. I can't find it.


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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: October 26, 2015, 07:28:17 PM »
If you have pulses on pin2 (I assume you mean the parallel port) then that is already after Darwin so it must be working. Darwin is what it driving the Parallel port pins.
 So, likely your BOB is not passing the pulses along to the stepper driver. Have you configured a "direction pin" for the axis? Might also be a pulse polarity issue?
 Also does your BOB require an enable signal and/or charge pump.
A step by step description of what you HAVE done would be helpful for others to help you troubleshoot.
That's all I can think of off the top.

Sage

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: October 24, 2015, 10:54:46 AM »
Hi Art:

The new Darwin License fixed that issue.
Wow. Now that I can see it working - very impressive. Cudos to the development team. I see a couple of small issues but I'll do some more playing around and put them together after it's officially released.
Good work  :D

Oh. BTW. Not sure if it was the license, Darwin or another fix in Mach itself but the "Ref all Home" works now too.

Thanks
Sage

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: October 23, 2015, 10:41:35 PM »
Hi Art:

Good work. That seems to fix the over runs here. Although I get a Darwin License error -31 on the diagnostics line. Even so it keeps working.  I'll do some testing tomorrow.

Thanks


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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Shuttle Pro plugin - When?
« on: May 09, 2015, 05:37:30 PM »
Shuttle Pro is what we're talking about.
Easy for you I guess. I can do lots of things but writing device interfaces for Windows programs is not one of them.
 I assume what Brian did was trivial (for him) because he already had access to drivers for a mouse and he knows how the screen interface works because he wrote it. Making a connection to a device that Mach4 knows nothing about (yet), getting Mach4 to find and recognize the device much less talk to it is a whole other problem.
It is my understanding that you can't just load the factory ShuttlePro Windows driver and make it emulate keystrokes and Mach4 will be happy.
At least that's not how it worked for Mach3. Mach3 had a specific driver for ShuttlePro.
But then, like I say, I know very little about how it works.

Sage

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