the more I do the less I know. I finished setting up the screenset set up. run the double plate setup. that ran great told me the fixed plate was set. so i loaded a g code, moved off home and ran the work piece height which worked great. i hit cycle start and my machine went to the change tool position and said hit cycle start after tool change. since the tool i needed was already in my router i hit cycle start. i figured it would go to the fixed plate touch off and then get to cutting. well the hour glass came up and whizzed around for about 10 min and nothing happened. of course it says at the top Mach 3 not responding. took forever to shut down Mach3. i opened up Mach3 and rechecked all the numbers i used to do the screenset setup, all seems OK with them. so i tried again same result after tool change prompt to hit cycle start nothing. I'm sure I am doing something wrong but I don't know what.
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computer used for my machine has Windows XP, Mach 3, Vcarve Pro, Norton, and a wireless connection to my house internet. that's it i bought a new computer (3 months ago) for my machine no extra crap on it. in fact i don't use Vcarve on it to do design work, i have a different computer for that, i just have Vcarve on it to check designs if a problem arises.
I'm sure once it get it to work right i will be happy as a Pig in S--t. i must say i do like the actual window for the screenset very easy to get to all the features available on it. nice job GER.