I've recently downloaded Mach 3 for trial and I am having problems getting it to work with my driver.  Right now I am using an Intelligent Motion Systems IB106 Stepper motor driver with a Pacific Scientific PowerMax II 8 wire stepper.  When I connect the drive to the motor it just gets hot.  I'm not sure I have the motor wired right, but that's a different problem.  My question is about the pins for teh signals.  I am using pin 2 as step on the X-axis and pin 3 as direction.  What I am not understanding is how to make it work in a manul mode.  I hve no experience with CNC so I am reading ll I cn find on the subject.  There is no setup manual I can find for Mach which makes it a bit of a mystery to me.  I think I will get a different driver nd motor to try, but I wnt to mke sure I am thinking this out correctly.  ny hints or tips would be greatly appreciated. 

P.S.
I did search and found some answers to other questions I had, but not to these. 

There is a manual and also some videos showing how to set up Mach you will find them under the tutorials tab at the top of this forum.
Hood

I'm sorry, you are right.  Figures, That was the one tab I didn't look under when I was frantically looking for info...  I will look them over and see if I have anymore questions. 

Thanks

jmanz6