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General Mach Discussion / Re: Does MACH3 work with Windows 11?
« Last post by john buffum on November 19, 2025, 06:56:54 AM »Thank you. Will proceed.
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General Mach Discussion / Re: Reawakening a MAXNC-10
« Last post by john buffum on November 19, 2025, 06:52:45 AM »To q1, yes the UC100
THANK YOU!!
You've tried this, and seen it work? PMDX offers something like it, the PMDX-411 https://www.pmdx.com/PMDX-411. Could be the same product. Would economically solve sooooo many problems!
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General Mach Discussion / Re: Reawakening a MAXNC-10
« Last post by JohnHaine on November 19, 2025, 01:04:20 AM »To q1, yes the UC100
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General Mach Discussion / Re: USB Mach3 Motion Control Card
« Last post by JohnHaine on November 19, 2025, 01:01:48 AM »Which card are you using?
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Works in progress / Re: NoPIlot
« Last post by Punisher on November 18, 2025, 08:25:44 PM »The status page is currently very limited. It displays the latest notification. Will show an error if there is one.
Pressing F1 opens the page. That's the same as PathPilot.
The page button is actually a led. It will flash yellow. Forgot how I have it configured. It's been 4 years since I've worked on this. Believe it should activate when there's an error message.
PathPilot shows a running log of messages. Mach 3 only shows the lates. The rest are saved in a log.
Plan on adding history and clear buttons. Also limit switch leds.
PathPilot has a Machine Ok led. That's enabled when the pc is connected to the machine. Not sure if Mach 3 can detect the connection status. Will have to do some more searching on that.
PathPilot also has a led for the door. My machine does have a door switch. The control board I'm using doesn't have a input for it. Pretty sure normal boards will have that. Thinking about adding the led and partially configuring it.
Pressing F1 opens the page. That's the same as PathPilot.
The page button is actually a led. It will flash yellow. Forgot how I have it configured. It's been 4 years since I've worked on this. Believe it should activate when there's an error message.
PathPilot shows a running log of messages. Mach 3 only shows the lates. The rest are saved in a log.
Plan on adding history and clear buttons. Also limit switch leds.
PathPilot has a Machine Ok led. That's enabled when the pc is connected to the machine. Not sure if Mach 3 can detect the connection status. Will have to do some more searching on that.
PathPilot also has a led for the door. My machine does have a door switch. The control board I'm using doesn't have a input for it. Pretty sure normal boards will have that. Thinking about adding the led and partially configuring it.
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Works in progress / Re: NoPIlot
« Last post by Punisher on November 18, 2025, 06:32:04 PM »There's not a whole lot on the settings page. Shows the enabled g-code settings. A led lights up if enabled.
Everything is configured and working. Just needs to be made to look a little better.
Going to split up the g-code and label. That will allow everything to line up better. Since the active work coordinate is a changing label, it has a colored background. Splitting up the text will allow all of them to have the same color background.
Used the stock led to configure everything. Will be switching to a custom one. It will be a full solid color.
One of the limitations with Mach 3 is that all text and background colors are the same for the entire screenset. Would have liked to change the text color to make it easier to read on top of the led. Could change the text to black, but that might cause problems elsewhere. Will have to experiment with some different color leds to see what works best.
Everything is configured and working. Just needs to be made to look a little better.
Going to split up the g-code and label. That will allow everything to line up better. Since the active work coordinate is a changing label, it has a colored background. Splitting up the text will allow all of them to have the same color background.
Used the stock led to configure everything. Will be switching to a custom one. It will be a full solid color.
One of the limitations with Mach 3 is that all text and background colors are the same for the entire screenset. Would have liked to change the text color to make it easier to read on top of the led. Could change the text to black, but that might cause problems elsewhere. Will have to experiment with some different color leds to see what works best.
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General Mach Discussion / USB Mach3 Motion Control Card
« Last post by eqrico2017 on November 18, 2025, 03:13:20 PM »I am using Windows 11 and I have installed MACH3 in my laptop using closed loop motors. Additionally, I am using a USB MAch3 Motion Control Card. According to internet page this card con be used only up to Windows 10. What could it be the issues using this card with Windows 11?
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General Mach Discussion / Re: Does MACH3 work with Windows 11?
« Last post by Charlie_M on November 18, 2025, 04:56:32 AM »If you asking if Mach3 works on win 11 then it does when using a motion controller like a uc100, smooth stepper or the Chinese mach3 motion controller.
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General Mach Discussion / Using AI for custom programing
« Last post by Nick-G on November 18, 2025, 12:05:07 AM »Has anyone else tried it?
I was fairly skeptical but considering most advanced questions around here seem to go unanswered I thought I would give it a try.
Ive been using grok the past few days and have managed to get a functional module for calibrating my tool setter probe, tool lengths, and diameters. I have some fine tuning to do yet but i'm actually pretty blown away.
If anyone else wants to give it a try I would warn that you do still have to somewhat know what you are doing. Grok on many occasions would straight up create api functions out of thin air among other things but as long as you know enough to catch its mistakes it is able to create some pretty cool stuff that I have never found browsing these forums.
I was fairly skeptical but considering most advanced questions around here seem to go unanswered I thought I would give it a try.
Ive been using grok the past few days and have managed to get a functional module for calibrating my tool setter probe, tool lengths, and diameters. I have some fine tuning to do yet but i'm actually pretty blown away.
If anyone else wants to give it a try I would warn that you do still have to somewhat know what you are doing. Grok on many occasions would straight up create api functions out of thin air among other things but as long as you know enough to catch its mistakes it is able to create some pretty cool stuff that I have never found browsing these forums.
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Works in progress / Re: NoPIlot
« Last post by Punisher on November 17, 2025, 06:27:16 PM »The file page is very basic. Has a button to load and one to edit. Also displays the file name if loaded.
Mach 3 opens a file explorer to load gcode. It can't be built into the screen like PathPilot.
Thought about adding the gcode screen. Figured it really didn't pay. Previewing would be better done on the main screen. That way the tool path can also be looked at.
Mach 3 opens a file explorer to load gcode. It can't be built into the screen like PathPilot.
Thought about adding the gcode screen. Figured it really didn't pay. Previewing would be better done on the main screen. That way the tool path can also be looked at.