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Jog Not Working on Mach3 software, Circles Job Display too
« on: April 07, 2023, 04:19:29 PM »
Hello Everyone, I've been using Mach3 on my CNC 6040 for 7+ years now, not a single problem came until this morning, I actually ran a cut 2 times last night with no problems, i left a new sheet on the CNC ready to run the same program/cut this morning, when i opened the GCode on Mach 3 the Job Display Screen appeared with lots of circles (see image).

Then i tried to move the machine pressing the keyboard arrows and there was no movement, not even X,Y and Z movements on the Mach3, it stayed in the initial position both physically and in Mach3.

I tried with the TAB Button Jog and the same results.

The emergency button is not pressed, the Reset button in Mach3 is not activated either, the Jog ON/OFF button is on green.

If I press the Goto Z button it stays there in those coordinates (see pictures), which BTW are the coordinates it now boots Mach3 with, it usually is  0,0,0.

I closed the File and try to move with No File Loaded and same result (last image).

Not sure what the issue is, and i would like to check if someone has ran into this problem before i uninstall and reinstall the software.

Is my subscription expired probably?

any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: Jog Not Working on Mach3 software, Circles Job Display too
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2023, 05:17:24 AM »
Check your Mach3/xmlbackups directory for last backup of your_profile.xb... (the highest number is last backup), rename it to your_profile.xml and copy it to Mach3 directory.
Sometimes the .xml file gets corrupted.

I have a copy of whole Mach3 directory with all subdirectories on a thumbdrive just in case if any of the files get corrupted to copy it to the hard drive.
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