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Sporadic "toolpath view" problems with "PoKeys57CNCdb25"
« on: December 03, 2019, 11:06:12 AM »
Sorry, i am a newbie in Mach3 ...
But when migrating to new laptop with operating system Win10 Home (64Bit),
I have bought and installed "PoKeys57CNCdb25" to adapt usb interface to native parallel lpt-interface.
This has caused SPORADIC problems when choosing PoKeys' pulse engine, even with NO controller board attached: "Toolpath view" is sometimes weird, toolpath is incomplete and cut off, simulation program stops.
Such problems occur roughly in 1 of 3 loads of always the same "test gcode".
 They NEVER occur when choosing the (useless) "normal printer port operation" starting MACH3.
Might there be a solution or workaround to this "problem"?
Details:
Mach3 Version R3.043.066
PoKeys Mach3 Plugin v3.35 (20190516)

Thank you in advance
Re: Sporadic "toolpath view" problems with "PoKeys57CNCdb25"
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2019, 12:40:52 PM »
Solution is obsolete now in my case.

2 further problems have occured :

1.When trying to connect adapter "PoKeys57CNCdb25" to my machine controller card, I noticed that an additional db25-gender changer (female-female) is needed. Has taken some days to have it delivered to my place, but no real problem ...

2. After connecting "everything" (laptop-> PoKeys57CNCdb25-> machine Controller Card-> stepper motors) , no stepper Motor has made a single step. And it's NOT because of "emergency stop Signal" (mapped to pin 10 of db25 connector)


I have "surrendered" and returned this adapter to Vendor ….

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Re: Sporadic "toolpath view" problems with "PoKeys57CNCdb25"
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2019, 01:47:54 AM »
Hi Sunny,

Sorry to hear that you have not had any success with setting-up your 57CNC. As with any motion controller there are quite a few settings to get right before everything works as it should and fully understanding the manuals takes time.

Just one point, you should not be using Mach3 Version R3.043.066 as it had problems.  Go to the Artsoft website and download their latest corrected version.

Tweakie.
PEACE
Re: Sporadic "toolpath view" problems with "PoKeys57CNCdb25"
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2019, 01:36:01 PM »
Hi,
want to tell you about a happy end (work around) to this topic:
After creating another partition, I have additionally installed win7 32-bit.
License has been cheap, and windows boot Manager now offers both my win10 64-bit and recently installed win7 32-bit. With win7 32-bit, i am able to use mach3 with its default parallel printer port driver ...