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I am having a problem with moving around a part on my table. Instead
of the coordinates always being 0,0. Any ideas?

Hi Harry,

I do not know about the overlays screens but I use ELO systems touch screens
with out any problems. I have tried the serial and USB and both are fine.
The only drawback with the ELO is not having a pop up keyboard built into
the driver for data input. You can load the onscreen keyboard in Windows to
allow data input. You just have to min-max it when you need it.


Best,

Ed Gilbert

Gilbert Engineered Systems
632 Warrenton-Embro Road
Macon, NC 27551
252-257-0539

Group

Does anyone have any experience using a touch screen overlay or a
touch screen LCD with Mach2? The overlays are less than $200. the
LCD well there up there!!
Harry

Brian,

Thanks for clarifying this. The manual, as I interpreted it
suggested that you could call subroutines in other programs. I was
hoping this was possible. I guess all the subroutines must be loaded
in the same part program. This is less than ideal for me, but
workable.

Thanks again for taking the time to respond to my question.

Tom Eldredge



--- In mach1mach2cnc@..., "barker806" <brian_barker@u...>
wrote:

<SNIP>

Is this correct: PART27.TXT is the name of the program that I

load

in

Mach2. In PART27.TXT I include the following:

;PART27.TXT GCODES O1
How do I link the names of the other subroutines located in other
gcode programs here to the "O" numbers?
;MISCELANEOUS GCODES
M98 P3000 O2
;MISCELANEOUS GCODES
M30
;End of program O1
In the routine named "ROTATE_FIXTURE.TXT", I include the

following:

;ROTATE_FIXTURE.TXT O2
O2 ;I don't know how or where to put this
N1000 ;Misc. gcodes
M99
N2000 ;Misc. gcodes
M99
N3000 ;The rotation routine I am looking for
M98 P200 O3;Call routine to cut the pocket here.
;Misc. gcodes
M99
N4000 ;Misc gcodes
M99
;End of program O2

In the routine called "CUT_POCKET.TXT"
O3 ;I don't know how or where to put this
N200
;Misc. gcodes needed to cut the pocket
M99

I am sure I am majorly mixed up in how to impliment this.
I will be grateful for anyone who will take the time to point me

to

a

better example.


Tom Eldredge, RUTEX USA

;ROTATE_FIXTURE.TXT O2
Main Program Here and you call the subs from the main
M98 P1000
M98 P2000
M98 P3000
M98 P4000
M30

O1000 ;First sub
N1000 ;Misc. gcodes
M99 ;Return to main

O2000 ;Sub2
;BLA BLA BLA M this G that
M99

O3000 ;The rotation routine I am looking for
;BLA BLA BLA M this G that
M98 O2000; if you want more of the O2000
;Misc. gcodes
M99

O4000 ;Misc gcodes
;Same thing again
M99
That should do it ... I did it about 3 months ago...the manual has

it

as well...
Brian

I am getting rid of my Hardinge cnc lathe, a half built router table
and the parts needed to complete them. Contact me off list if
interested.

Doug

<SNIP>

Is this correct: PART27.TXT is the name of the program that I load

in

Mach2. In PART27.TXT I include the following:

;PART27.TXT GCODES O1
How do I link the names of the other subroutines located in other
gcode programs here to the "O" numbers?
;MISCELANEOUS GCODES
M98 P3000 O2
;MISCELANEOUS GCODES
M30
;End of program O1
In the routine named "ROTATE_FIXTURE.TXT", I include the following:

;ROTATE_FIXTURE.TXT O2
O2 ;I don't know how or where to put this
N1000 ;Misc. gcodes
M99
N2000 ;Misc. gcodes
M99
N3000 ;The rotation routine I am looking for
M98 P200 O3;Call routine to cut the pocket here.
;Misc. gcodes
M99
N4000 ;Misc gcodes
M99
;End of program O2

In the routine called "CUT_POCKET.TXT"
O3 ;I don't know how or where to put this
N200
;Misc. gcodes needed to cut the pocket
M99

I am sure I am majorly mixed up in how to impliment this.
I will be grateful for anyone who will take the time to point me to

a

better example.


Tom Eldredge, RUTEX USA

;ROTATE_FIXTURE.TXT O2
Main Program Here and you call the subs from the main
M98 P1000
M98 P2000
M98 P3000
M98 P4000
M30

O1000 ;First sub
N1000 ;Misc. gcodes
M99 ;Return to main

O2000 ;Sub2
;BLA BLA BLA M this G that
M99

O3000 ;The rotation routine I am looking for
;BLA BLA BLA M this G that
M98 O2000; if you want more of the O2000
;Misc. gcodes
M99

O4000 ;Misc gcodes
;Same thing again
M99
That should do it ... I did it about 3 months ago...the manual has it
as well...
Brian

Gentlemen,
Could one of you give a brief example of a subroutine call to another
part program? I don't see where the program names are entered in the
main part program (O1), although I admit that the calls to VB
scripts, and Macro's seem to have me a bit confused.

If I have two gcode routines that need to be called often from one
main gcode program, I don't want to have to include the coding of the
routines in the code of the first part program that I load in Mach2.

For example, In Windows, I name the main program "PART27.TXT", one
routine "ROTATE_FIXTURE.TXT", and the other "CUT_POCKET.TXT"

Is this correct: PART27.TXT is the name of the program that I load in
Mach2. In PART27.TXT I include the following:

;PART27.TXT GCODES O1
How do I link the names of the other subroutines located in other
gcode programs here to the "O" numbers?
;MISCELANEOUS GCODES
M98 P3000 O2
;MISCELANEOUS GCODES
M30
;End of program O1
In the routine named "ROTATE_FIXTURE.TXT", I include the following:

;ROTATE_FIXTURE.TXT O2
O2 ;I don't know how or where to put this
N1000 ;Misc. gcodes
M99
N2000 ;Misc. gcodes
M99
N3000 ;The rotation routine I am looking for
M98 P200 O3;Call routine to cut the pocket here.
;Misc. gcodes
M99
N4000 ;Misc gcodes
M99
;End of program O2

In the routine called "CUT_POCKET.TXT"
O3 ;I don't know how or where to put this
N200
;Misc. gcodes needed to cut the pocket
M99

I am sure I am majorly mixed up in how to impliment this.
I will be grateful for anyone who will take the time to point me to a
better example.


Tom Eldredge, RUTEX USA

Dear Sir,
I try to upload the files againe, and when it be complete i contact u to go and download it.


Peter Homann <peter.homann@...> wrote:
Hi,

I have downloaded the software but the file is only 14MB in size and
corrupted. Can you point me to the full 28MB version.

Cheers,


Peter Homann
mailto:Peter.Homann@...
Adacel Technologies Limited,
250 Bay St, BRIGHTON, 3186, AUSTRALIA
<>
Telephone +61 (3) 8530 7777, Facsimile +61 (3) 9596 2960
Mobile 0421-601 665

Richard,

Thanks for putting that on separate lines with some space. Most people put it on one line with a single space.

Servo

k8zre <rfs@...> wrote:

Servo...

Nuts!

Thanx...Richard
===============

Richard,

Mach2 will not run under Windows NT, must have Windows 2000 or

Windows XP.

Servo

k8zre <rfs@c...> wrote:
Can MACH2 be used with NT4? or must one use XP or WIN2000?

Thanx...Richard.


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Hi,

I have downloaded the software but the file is only 14MB in size and
corrupted. Can you point me to the full 28MB version.

Cheers,


Peter Homann
mailto:Peter.Homann@...
Adacel Technologies Limited,
250 Bay St, BRIGHTON, 3186, AUSTRALIA
<>
Telephone +61 (3) 8530 7777, Facsimile +61 (3) 9596 2960
Mobile 0421-601 665

Servo...

Nuts!

Thanx...Richard
===============

Richard,

Mach2 will not run under Windows NT, must have Windows 2000 or

Windows XP.

Servo

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Thanx...Richard.


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Hello all,

I would like to know if someone had problems installing ver5.0??

On my computer, winXP recognize an error and close mach2 (actually
mach2 did not crash, it is possible to use it if I ignore that boring
winXP messages, but something is wrong here) then few minutes after
closing mach2, the computer re-boot itself.

I had installed ver 3.5 and everything is going ok.

Thanks,
Daniel.

PS.: I had created the folder with the name of the profile, and
macros ran ok.

Richard,

Mach2 will not run under Windows NT, must have Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
Servo

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Can MACH2 be used with NT4? or must one use XP or WIN2000?

Thanx...Richard.

Well - at least nobody's done that before

Does it do G41/42 <g>

JT

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On Sunday 07 March 2004 20:43, Steve Blackmore wrote:

My point is, why all the struggling? We spend endless money on
Hardware & tooling but never think about CAM programs! IMO - Just as
important to have a decent cam proggy as all the rest of the kit!

Thats easy. Money. Or more to the point, unreasonable amounts of it.

Some of the CAM products are not being sold on their development costs, but
on 'what we think we can get away with'. Because a lot of CAM is sold to
industrial/business users, it is sold at a business/industrial price, and
most importantly a price that does not reflect the amoutn of effort that has
gone in to writing it.

Let me give you an example from plasma profiling software .. Take a package
that can produce a toolpath around a part (identifying the internal and
external contours) and add lead-ins ... then place them on a sheet for
cutting. How much to you figure that is going to cost? $500? $1000?? .. well
.. nearer $2000 is the answer, and thats if you are prepared to drag the
parts onto the sheet and position them with your mouse. Want it to place
them on the sheet automatically? double that price. And thats if it uses the
rectangular bounding box to work out how big the part is, if you want it to
us the 'true shape' of the part when packing into the sheet, add another
$1000 or more.

Now, as a software engineer, I know I could write a simple rectangular
nesting routine, have it tested and debugged in a day or so, so when someone
wants thousands of dollars for it, I begin to think hard about 'value for
money'. When you look at a lot of software you can get today for either very
little or even free, you begin to reallise that it is no longer a big ticket
item. Its a commodity. The CAM world is still holding out, going for the few
sales for big dollars approach, and they are going to get a hard landing.
Theres a couple of good free packages coming along nicely now, Qcad for
instance and sagcad look promising.

In short the CAM market is to a large extent ignoring the hobby/low end user.
There are a few software houses who have taken this on board (Dolphin with
its Mach2 offer for instance) and some who offer genuinley advanced and
impressive packages for a fair price ( Rhino 3D and Visual Mill for instance)
.. but theres still a lot offering rather basic packages at big ticket prices
(like almost all the plasma/gas/laser profiling packages) and thats a market
that is ripe for someone to come along, offer a decent package at a fair
price and clean up.

What will happen I predict over the next few years is that an open source
package will become good enough to attract a few commercial/industrial users.
When that happens it will beocme interesting. I'm looking at India and China
as being massive growth markets for this kind of project. They have lots of
skilled software guys, and a booming need for this type of product. What will
happen is some companies will pay some Indian developers to add functionality
to a open-source CAD package, to enable them to do some task more efficiently
and from there it will snowball. Its already happened in a lot of areas, I
predict cad/cam is an area ripe for it to happen next.

--
RapidCut CNC Technology

CNC Plasma Cutter

Jens it is possible to do this as this is the setup I use. I had to
have Art help me set it up but if you can wait till Monday night US
time.....I will get you the setup you need to do this.

Mike



--- In mach1mach2cnc@..., "Jens Swales"
<jipeess2000@y...> wrote:

hi all

does anyone know if it is possible to set up m2 for this homing
sequence? :

1. start machine
2. start m2 (and hit reset)
3. jog (or with an mdi command, move) the spindle near to the limit
switches (x+, y+, z+)
4. then, with one single button click, move all 3 axis at a slow
feedrate until they hit the switches, then backs away a few mm麓s,

and

finaly updates/resets the machine dro.

is there already any oem code for this? is it do-able?

thanks
jens

On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 22:58:44 -0000, you wrote:

This is very true, some programs insist that you have arrows on all
the lines to show the way they were drawn and if not in the correct
order you then need to jump thru hoops to re organiase the ay they
need to go.
As Michael has stated with Dolphin this isn't nessesary and the
arrows went out with Col. Cusler.

I like the arrows. Makes it very clear at a glance which direction everthing is going.
To change direction, just click on the other side of the arrow. No hoops, no big deal.

If clicking the toolpath is too complicated, you can select the toolpath or toolpaths
and reverse direction with one menu selection.

Arrows went out with cowboys :)

Pick your tool, select line, CW or CCW direction - job done - what do
arrows do apart from clutter a drawing?

How does it work when you want to climb mill at roughing, then
conventional mill for a finishing cut? Two sets of arrows?


--
Steve Blackmore

I have my motors disconnected from my mill and can anchor them in a
vise. Do I want some sort of flywheel on the shaft whilst tuning, or
nothing at all?

Thanks,
Monte