Hi All,
I bought a 3 axis CNC router off someone that built it himself. I recently moved to a new shop, and have been trying to get this thing running from a new/different PC.
After hooking the CNC back up, I can plug it into the original PC and it works fine.
I installed Mach 4 on the new one, exported my profile from the old one, and wasn't getting anywhere. I found the Ethernet Smooth Stepper setup and went through that, loaded that driver and plugin and went through running the SCU, which looks good. So my diagnostics look good seems good, I can ping the Ethernet Smooth Stepper 10.9.9.9 and when I go to MDI, it *thinks* it is moving the CNC router around (the x,y,z positions change in mach4) but it doesn't move.
A lot of google searches lead to broken forum links here, and it seems the forum search isn't working (at least for me)
After spending about four hours on this, I think I'll just move the old PC which still works to the router, but I need to know how to set this thing up when this PC inevitably dies.
MAIN QUESTION:
The "Configure" menu is still available on the new PC, and it seems like that is because the controller is not 'enabled' (according to the Mach 4 docs) On the old PC, which works, this menu is not available, so I can't compare it. The docs say this is because the software is 'locked' (preventing config changes) but how do you unlock it? I found the unlock icon, but clicking, shift clicking, ctrl clicking, nothing unlocks that and prompts for any password. It seems like at this point what I need to do is open up the config menu on the old PC, get all the settings, and match those in the new PC.
And of course move my license to the new PC, apparently, I need to contact the license reseller to do that.
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks!