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General Mach Discussion / Re: Hall of shame

« Last post by wormball on May 29, 2025, 03:46:24 AM »

> However, you should DEFINITELY buy a licence from Artsoft rather than running a pirate version from China

I am not sure my boss will do it. So version 066 can not be official version? The window header says it is licensed to the machine manufacturer.

> Alternately, you could upgrade to Mach4.

My controller does not support mach4..

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Hall of shame

« Last post by rcaffin on May 29, 2025, 03:06:47 AM »

I am fairly sure there is no list of bugs available for any version.
.066 is not recommended: in fixing a few bugs it created even more.
Version R3.043.062 is the recommended one. It still has bugs, but it is very usable.

However, you should DEFINITELY buy a licence from Artsoft rather than running a pirate version from China. Alternately, you could upgrade to Mach4.

Cheers
Roger (running Mach3 still, and coping with the bugs)

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Hall of shame

« Last post by wormball on May 29, 2025, 02:48:26 AM »

And you get the version 066, which was deprecated many years ago. It had too many bugs.

I am using version 066 that came with brand new machine and experiencing some bugs https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=49280.0 https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=49270.msg302793#msg302793 , however i am not sure they are mach3 bugs and bugs of particular version. Where can i read the list of version 066 bugs? And what version should i use?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Anomolies Strike Back!!

« Last post by wormball on May 28, 2025, 01:39:18 PM »

> Its not a fault its a feature that has to be used properly and with care.

Are you really sure that g52 should affect motion in machine coordinates? And should affect it by amount not equal to the g52 offset value displayed at the "diagnostics" screen? And if you are, can you post some evidence for such a bold claim?

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Write my own homing procedure?

« Last post by wormball on May 28, 2025, 11:19:08 AM »

No, i had not! I will try this. However its description is rather obscure, maybe it does the same thing i already achieve with homing B axis alone. Thanks!

Also i forgot one of the main reasons to have my own homing procedure: if i can move slave axis independently, i can make correction for squareness programmatically rather than by moving actual limit switches, which in my setup is not easy.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Write my own homing procedure?

« Last post by TPS on May 28, 2025, 11:11:01 AM »

have you had a look for

CoupleSlave(bool) 

function?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Anomolies Strike Back!!

« Last post by wormball on May 28, 2025, 10:59:44 AM »

Mach3 version is R3.043.066.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Write my own homing procedure?

« Last post by wormball on May 28, 2025, 10:56:10 AM »

> only thing i know is DoOemButton(150) -> Override Limits.

This is the exact thing i tried and it does not work.

> simple example

Thanks! I had never encountered SetParam ("XRefPer") before.

> or you have a motion controller witch allows indexed homing

Actually my servo steppers likely have index output, but it is not wired to the controller, so it needs some work which i prefer not to do. Moreover, i think if i wire dfferent "enable" outputs to the master and slave axes, i could home them independently, but mach3 is clearly capable of such independent homing without rewiring, it simply does not want to let me do this. And maybe if i make some brain that will force 0 signal to the limit inputs when i home.. Or even force 0 signal into the master y axis step input.. But it could be much, much simpler, which makes me sad panda.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Elapsed time is always 0

« Last post by wormball on May 28, 2025, 10:36:02 AM »

Good for you.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Elapsed time is always 0

« Last post by TPS on May 28, 2025, 10:20:58 AM »

as sayed Mach Version R3.043.022 and StandardDro(14) is working here for year's