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General Mach Discussion / Re: Zoom in Mach 3 and Fixtures
« on: November 09, 2006, 08:31:00 PM »
 ;D Art and team, thanks for fixing Zoom in the display window. Now perfect!! It also seems a whole lot more stable on my machine.

Just another point, it is right that Fixture 1 (G54) is not persistant (always returns to zeros) even after saving fixture? Fixture 2 (G55) etc. are fine. I'm new to fixtures but very useful now that my auto homing is working well.

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General Mach Discussion / Zoom in Mach 3
« on: October 12, 2006, 10:10:59 PM »
Loving Mach 3, but have one small request:

Please can the mouse wheel zoom be changed such that one mouse wheel intent changes the zoom factor by a much smaller amount? When you zoom in, one notch is about X2 zoom which is usually too much.  :P

This would be a great help. Could it be a parameter option in tool path config??? New display, by the way, is excellent. (I don't have an option in my mouse driver to change the "sensitivity" of the wheel.)

Next, quick question: is it possible for Mach 3 to display a "perfect" tool path (including arcs) then cut something different half way through or is it always WYSIWYG assuming hardware is OK? Happened just once before, probably my bad G code...::)

Thanks,

Richard.

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Tangent Corner / Spam
« on: July 04, 2006, 01:45:19 AM »
Don't want to put any clouds anywhere near this great forum but I have a question.

Since joining this and the similar Yahoo forum I get two spam emails from continuously changing accounts with nonsense investment information.

Anyone else get the same? Anyway to stop it? :( I can't use my spam stopper as they use a different spoof account everyday...

But anyway Mach 3 is beaming with sunshine, give or take the freezing up I still get after version 17... But that is another post and almost certainly my doing...

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: My bench top CNC mill
« on: June 27, 2006, 12:16:55 AM »
Hello Duke,

That is one fine machine you have made! Fantastic job! You should be real proud.

Can you show some pics of it in action? What will you use it for mostly?

I've buit a CNC machine in the past and building a "special" now, even made some zero backlash ball screws, but yours is a real inspiration to pay more attention to detail!

Thanks for sharing it.

Richard.

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Also, you will see that is says Error Starting Engine - but actually, everything works fine!?

Richard.

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Thanks Brian,

As requested. Also screenshot of what it looks like. Sometimes if I close the VB editor before closing the file it has opened, it will crash Mach 3.

Let us know if you find anything. I don't think I have a very complex setup!

Richard.

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Hi Art,

Success!!  :) ;D I think deleting the JoyStick.dll plugin fixed the problem. Now stable as a rock.

Perhaps that should be an option during installation just for those who need it?

All that remains is the "HiddenScript" issue which sometimes crashes Mach3 on startup.

Thanks for your help. I really appreciate the effort you and Brian are putting in to Mach3.

Regards, Richard.

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Thanks Art,

Is that in Config, State? Just says G80, I've not touched this. Top right hand corner says Mill->G15 G80 G17 G40 G21 G90 G94 G54 G49 G99.

What is "HiddenScript" for, by the way, seems to contain just a few spaces?

Also, what is "ShuttleMode" and accel setting? Can't find reference to it. Is this new, secret functionality!!

I will report back tonight, Thanks, Richard.

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Thanks CcnBr - I will check that.

Thanks Art, they were all off and no serial ports/pins configured. But I did see that I wrongly had spindle enabled and set to port 2 (which is disabled). This is different in the turn config which did work.

Removed "JoyStick.dll" from plugins.

Tested OK for 8 mins then just had to go to work....AHH.  So, still don't know if stable.

Any other settings you could suggest I check?

By the way, why does "HiddenScript." come up in the VB macro editor sometimes when Mach3 starts in vn 50? Sometimes this hangs on startup.

Thanks very much for your help - we are making progress!

Richard.

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Hi Art,

Ah ha, Mach3Turn Vn50 does not hangup. OK for over 1h jogging and resetting and so on. No Problems. But Mach3Mill - hung after 5 mins again. ???

Sometimes, PC comes back after hanging but most times just freezes.

Is there some script always running with Mach3Mill that is different with Mach3Turn?

Thanks

Richard.


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