Hi,

I cannot get the G83 Peck Drilling routine to work.  I have read "Topic: couple of things I have noticed with mach /g83 problem " and it appears that some can get it to work albeit with reported bugs relating to minimum peck distances. 

I have tried in vain with the codes attached.

In desperation I hand coded the Centre Spot Drill Template_B which uses simple G01 and G00 movements.  This works fine.

Where have I gone wrong with the G83 routines?

I am using the latest lockdown release of Mach3 Version R3.041 and SmoothStepper Plugin.

Regards

Chrisjh

What is wrong when you try the G83?
Also the min peck bug as you call it is not a bug, it is just that the increments in the macro were such that if someone used abnormally small pecks over a long distance then the macro would run out of repeatss before the depth requested was reached. It is an easy fix to adjust the macro.


Hood

Hi Hood,

The machine starts the spindle, moves to the start position, does not drill at all, then withdraws and stops.

I have also tried single step mode to see if I can see what happens block by block.

It behaves like Mach3 is not seeing the G83 Line of code at all.

Regards

Chrisjh

can you attach your xml, also make sure you have the m1083 macro.
Hood

Thanks Hood for taking the time to help sort this out.  Very much appreciated!!

xml file as requested:

Regards

Chrisjh

I solved the problem

For some unknown reason when I set up my profile for the laptop in my shed, the "macro" folder was missing a lot of files. 

When I compared the contents of the "MachTurn" macro folder with my "chrisjh_turn_shed" folder there were a lot of files missing. 

I copied the contents of MachTurn macro folder into "chrisjh_turn_shed" folder and fixed the problem.  One of the many missing files was M1083.m1s which is why the peck drill routine did not work.

I don't understand how this happened as I started off with "MachTurn" profile and saved it as the new profile.

I tested to see if G83.1 mode works as described in the manual.  It behaves the same as G83.  I presume that this is because there in no M1083.1.m1s macro.

Chrisjh