Hi
I've got a Brigdeport Boss 6 that I'm running off Mach 3, the spindle start relay isn't wired into Mach 3 but to a separate switch as it was originally, I use special macros in Mach3 for M3, M4, M5 and Marcopump that basically ask for a spindle start and Mach waits till I start the spindle before continuing, M5 just stops the spindle and the macropump stops the machine if the spindle stop's.
The problem I'm having is if I run a taping cycle, it asks for a spindle start I start the spindle and off it goes, the tap get to the bottom of the hole the spindle stops and Mach caries on going feeding the tap out of the hole without the spindle running.
Is there something I'm doing wrong or anyway of stopping this happening?
I could rewrite all my program with taping cycles in them to something like this
G0 X0 Y0 T26 M6
G43 H26 Z20.0 S100 M3
Z5
G01 Z-10.0 F100
M5
M4
G01 Z5
M5
M3
But I'd prefer to change something to get it working properly.
Cheers
Chris