Hello:

Can anyone tell me how the PWM signal comes out of Mach?. And if you have made
connection correctly from G540?. Pin 7,8 and 9 are connected to VFD, Does pin
7 and 9 put out 12V on their own?

Thanks

Chris

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Brian

I guess we had better tell Microsoft that they don't support VB. ??; -)

It is in the 2015 VS preview download.?

I am guessing you mean VBA which was pretty limited.

Glenn

Brian, please see this post on the forum and see if it's still an issue.

Gerry

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From: "Brian Barker brianb@... [mach1mach2cnc]"
To: mach1mach2cnc@...
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 8:23:49 AM
Subject: Re: [mach1mach2cnc] Where are we in Mach 4

Should be part of what is added for Probe.. I am thinking about doing the probe with Gcode rather then scripting...

Would you all feel better about changing Gcode rather then doing scripting? It would not be "normal" Gcode, it would be full of #'s and [vars]

Thanks
Brian

On 3/9/2015 3:01 PM, 'rad@...' rad@... [mach1mach2cnc] wrote:

Hi Brian & Jerry,

May I butt in here please?

With probing, I would just love it if we could select to start off by finding the centre of a pre-cut hole and then set Z zero from the base through that hole.?

I get to clean up a lot of laser cut plates. They come to me with the large holes laser cut. Using the centres of those holes as datums I have to clean up the hole surfaces and then drill and mill as required all the other markings.

Thanks for listening,

Russell Dunn

Ferlach

Austria

On 9 Mar 2015, at 14:33, Brian Barker brianb@... [mach1mach2cnc] <mach1mach2cnc@...> wrote:

Hi Jerry,
We are starting on the wizards for turn as soon as we get the new version out. We added pocketing of any shape with islands too the wizards but it is very untested at this point. This was the last "to do" we had before turn... The fun part of this is that we are going to use this same code to produce the Lathe cut path so you can turn any shape in the Turn wizards! This is going to make for a very powerful set of wizards in Turn. Mach motion tested turn and they where shocked how nice it is working and we are not calling it finished.

There are many ways to do Probe.. what are you thinking? Find Center and edge? or are you thinking tool length probe? I have a guy I can pay to get the scripts or Gcode to do this so I just need some clear picture of what you think you need.

Now on another note if you are running the industrial version we can now run the "Fanuc standard" Renishaw Macro's so for users that are into that level they can used what is considered to be the best in the world for Probing parts.

Thanks
Brian
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I see what your talking about and understand the concept of why having more than one comp could be necessary.

But that only applies to Gcode you write manually where YOU can predict that one type of Comp might be better than another in a particular situation - NO?

Most people use CAM programs. You would have to select a particular post to generate the G-code output. Then it would only have one type of Comp applied in the code. Possibly not the one that's suitable.

Also, the part to be machined might have a situation requiring both types of comp. What then?

Sage

Hi Brian,

Probing:

Milling Machine;

I have a screen that I was ABLE TO WRITE IN VB, that uses 14 sequences, none of them tool length.?

Outside any side-4

Outside any corner- 4

Inside a hole -1

Inside two edges Y -2

Inside two edges X -2

Along one edge to determine the angle of an edge vs X -1

This last one allows you to rotate the axis of Mach?

Where appropriate the probes give a size measurement.

The screen allows you to set probing speed, horizontal travel distance, vertical travel distance, and diameter of the probe.

As for Z, I find I can do that faster than a probe using a small adjustable parallel; jog down close, measure, enter in DRO.

As for Lathe;

I made an insulated tool holder and have several probe sequences that you and I went round with a couple years ago. They work fine now except for one small bug.

These are all very basic and would be nice if something at least this good were included. I think there are more sophisticated sequences around, like probing at a good speed, backing off a bit and then slow probing for greater accuracy, and probably neat stuff I've never seen. I'm told that Solidcam has a bunch of neat probes.

I have a screen that is an improvement of AutoMill or Powermill or whatever it was called.

I have a screen that runs Y code on A, very simple, can use G2,3, uses "Swap Axis" and "Scaling"

I think a screen that combines a camera view and "Copycat" is of huge value.

I've looked at LUA a few times and and I'm certain I'll never create a screen with it, so the screens that come with Mach 4, or those I can buy for little money will be it.

Thanks,

Jerry?

Should be part of what is added for Probe.. I am thinking about doing the probe with Gcode rather then scripting...

Would you all feel better about changing Gcode rather then doing scripting? It would not be "normal" Gcode, it would be full of #'s and [vars]

Thanks
Brian

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