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Re: REF A
art
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In VB code use RefCombination( 8 ) to home the A axis.. Thanks, Art www.artofcnc.ca Videos And Support Forums Users Map: ----- Original Message -----
From: Ray Darnell To: mach1mach2cnc@... Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 10:33 AM Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] REF A Is there an OEM code for Home A in Mach3Turn?. I want to use a home position on my 8 way toolchanger |
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Re: Digitizing data question.
art
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It asks you when you start the run where the file will go. Just write down where it will be at.. Thanks, Art www.artofcnc.ca Videos And Support Forums Users Map: ----- Original Message -----
From: guzakaka To: mach1mach2cnc@... Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 1:45 AM Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] Digitizing data question. Art, or anyone that knows, Where is the data from a digitized file saved? I have run my first digitizing program and cannot find the file. Mike |
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Re: Using USB Devices
Thanks Olivier
Set keygrabber up last night and it's working like a dream - only problem I have is that there are so many buttons on this gamepad i don't know what to do with them all!!! If anyone is interested I can post more details of the gamepad and how I've got it setup. Cheers Dave --- In mach1mach2cnc@..., "Olivier" <digitalaudiopro@...> wrote: written. low level driver (no other software running in the background for yourgamepad. folder. -------- -----------mail. Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. |
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Re: Help With Picking a Good VFD? (Off Topic)
Steve Blackmore
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 17:05:18 -0400, you wrote:
Hi GuysCorrect. It's hard to tell off most documentation, but you still need some way of creating the 0-10V. The easy answer is just to use an isolated step/dir or PWM to 0 to 10V converter like Pete Homann's DigiSpeed board Proven to work well with Mach. Steve Blackmore -- |
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Re: Dare I say it........
Lester Caine
ynneb wrote:
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Mach 2 Freezes My Computers
My machine has been running without ever any computer freezes. It is
an Athlon 800 MHz running an early version of Mach 2. Since my shop is 30 km from my work or house I usually do my programming before I burn steel out at the shop. Therefore, last week I installed SheetCam on my burning computer to do some editing. Ever since my computer freezes intermittently, only in Mach 2. The computer never freezes in any other program other then Mach 2. In either burning, moving the gantry or just in an idle state in Mach 2, the computer will Freeze. I have to hard boot it reset. I completely reinstalled the system with XP Pro with SP2 and Mach 2 6.11N last night. I followed the optimization tips, and today the machine completed 4-24" table legs cut in 1/4" steel before it froze. Then I headed to the used computer store and purchased a P4 1.8 GB computer with XP Home installed. I installed Mach 2 6.11N (same version as above) but did not optimize the system. I also copied my .xlm file, .set files and lic file into the Mach 2 directory. This time the computer freezes every time It loads the .set screen. I did run the OCXDriver test programs on each computer (both set to 25k hz) and the pulses were stable. I monitored the pulse until it timed out 3 times each. Not indications of timing issues. Any ideas? Thanks, Dennis |
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Re: DB-25 Pin Location
art
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Measure any pin from pin 25 to any of pins 1-18, one of them will be 3.5 or 5volts.. Thatll tell you.. Thanks, Art www.artofcnc.ca Videos And Support Forums Users Map: ----- Original Message -----
From: James Connerton To: mach1mach2cnc@... Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 7:31 PM Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] DB-25 Pin Location Hi Guys, In checking to see if my computers Parallel ports put out 5V or 3.3V, what two pins would I check for ground and plus volts? Thanks, Jim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around |
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Re: Machine Status LEDs
art
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It can be done, but its difficult without somethign like a ModIO board.. Id read everything on the customising wiki. and the customising Docs. It will show variables, and macropump and how to use them to do that kind of thing. Sharp learning curve though.. Thanks, Art www.artofcnc.ca Videos And Support Forums Users Map: ----- Original Message -----
From: dpersuhn To: mach1mach2cnc@... Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 4:05 PM Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] Re: Machine Status LEDs Art, I'm looking for the exact opposite. For example, my cycle start and stop buttons have bright LED backlighting. I would like to have the button backlights indicate the running/stopped status of the machine as follows: Machine Ready - Solid Green Backlight on Start Button Program Running - Blinking Green LED on Start Button ESTOP - Blinking red LED on Stop Button Solid LED should be pretty easy, but the blinker has me curious because if I understand macropump correctly, it runs periodically, then exits. What can I use for time reference inside of the macropump to combine with the current LED state and machine state to trigger the LED to toggle at a given time interval? Also, are there any good reference docs on writing/using macropump and other VBscripts for Mach 3? I've seen a lot of snippets about scripts here and there, but could use a solid reference guide of some sort. Thanks, Dave --- In mach1mach2cnc@..., art <fenerty@...> wrote: > > Hi : > > You can drop on an LED, set its OEM number to a User number like 1001 , then > in a MAcroPump , use a line like > > If IsActive( OUTPUT1 ) then > setUserLed( 1001 ) > endif > > The LED woudl then reflect the output1 signal, no matter what pin its on. > > > Thanks, > Art > www.artofcnc.ca > > Videos And Support Forums > Users Map: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: dpersuhn > To: mach1mach2cnc@... > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 10:11 PM > Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] Machine Status LEDs > > > I have a second parallel port card installed in my contoller that I > want to use for my I/O panel. I'm using a keyboard emulator to handle > most of the inputs, but I'm now stumped on outputs. I have several > LEDs that I would like to use to indicate several machine status > elements so I can see them at a glance from the other side of the > shop. How do I set an LED in screen designer to affect a parallel > port pin? > > > > > > > > |
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Re: Help With Picking a Good VFD? (Off Topic)
Bill Blackburn wrote:
Hi GuysCan't be totally sure but I'd expect a lot of the newer VFD's would be isolated. My New Siemens drive is, and so is the Telemechanique one on my VMC. But whatever you will need to buy or devise an interface o give you the 0-10v analogue from the Step/dir or PWM outputs from Mach. A simple F>V circuit will achieve this. I do recal Mariss at Geckoodrive saying her would be devising something for use with the Grex, but there are other off the peg solutions out there. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wayne M Weedon Email: wayne@... Fdos Design Poole UK Tel +44-1202-677025 Fax +44-1202-770515 Mobile: 07774 439915 Specialists in small batch & Production Mechanical/Electrical Engineering --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Help With Picking a Good VFD? (Off Topic)
Bill Blackburn
Hi Guys
I have started looking for a VFD for my Mill project and have some questions that I hope someone can help me with. I understand that certain VFD's do not have any type of isolation protection between the Analog Voltage Control (speed control) and the Mains. Obviously without this protection, there is the possibility of damaging other parts of your system. (Computer, Breakout Boards, etc.) I have been looking at some different units and after reading their manuals, cannot figure out if they are isolated or not? Also is there anything I should be looking out for to make sure it will work with Mach3? I understand that a Spindle Speed Board will be required to interface Mach with the VFD. Interested in your opinions on these particular and other VFD's. Thanks in advance for your help with my questions. Interested in these Models. (All VFD's are 2hp, 240 Volt Single Phase In) (1) Automation Direct GS2-22P0 (2) Hitachi L100-015NFU (3) Teco Westinghouse Sensorless Vector MA7200-2002-N1 Out of the above Models what would your recommend? Thanks again. Regards Bill |
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Re: Tool change and speed control boxford lathe + Wrong PC clock
Re wrong PC clock
Had the same problem yesterday. My Win XP Pro was set to sync its clock to windows RTC when ever it is on line. It seems the global clock has crashed at March 2002, every time I ask it to resync, that is the date I get, or that the RTC has crashed. It also causes loads of security problems since all the site security certs are out of date. So all can do at present is turn off RTC in the control panel Regs Mark _____ From: mach1mach2cnc@... [mailto:mach1mach2cnc@...] On Behalf Of Dave Sent: 07 June 2006 17:19 To: mach1mach2cnc@... Subject: Re: [mach1mach2cnc] Tool change and speed control boxford lathe I just ordered one of those pulse to voltage converters from Duncan. He also shipped it very quickly. It should be here this week. FYI - Ray, the clock on your PC is wrong, so the email you sent ends up in the wrong place in the receivers mail box. Dave ray wrote: Thanks Dave looks interesting will follow up<> com/Variable_Speed_Control_Board.htm>
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Re: Machine Status LEDs
Art,
I'm looking for the exact opposite. For example, my cycle start and stop buttons have bright LED backlighting. I would like to have the button backlights indicate the running/stopped status of the machine as follows: Machine Ready - Solid Green Backlight on Start Button Program Running - Blinking Green LED on Start Button ESTOP - Blinking red LED on Stop Button Solid LED should be pretty easy, but the blinker has me curious because if I understand macropump correctly, it runs periodically, then exits. What can I use for time reference inside of the macropump to combine with the current LED state and machine state to trigger the LED to toggle at a given time interval? Also, are there any good reference docs on writing/using macropump and other VBscripts for Mach 3? I've seen a lot of snippets about scripts here and there, but could use a solid reference guide of some sort. Thanks, Dave --- In mach1mach2cnc@..., art <fenerty@...> wrote: 1001 , then in a MAcroPump , use a line likepin its on. that I want to use for my I/O panel. I'm using a keyboard emulator tohandle most of the inputs, but I'm now stumped on outputs. I haveseveral LEDs that I would like to use to indicate several machine statusthe shop. How do I set an LED in screen designer to affect aparallel port pin? |
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Re: Using USB Devices
It seems that your gamepad driver or profiler has been poorly written.
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Try to uninstal your logitech profiler, and use only the gamepad low level driver (no other software running in the background for your gamepad. Then, use keygrabber to profile your gamepad. It's in the mach3 folder. More, keygrabber will give you true proportional jog control with exponential sensitivity curves. Olivier. -----Message d'origine-----
De : mach1mach2cnc@... [mailto:mach1mach2cnc@...]De la part de davidimurray Envoy : mercredi 7 juin 2006 15:38 : mach1mach2cnc@... Objet : [mach1mach2cnc] Using USB Devices Hi I've just one of the Logitech wireless gamepads - looks a bit like a playstation controller. It is brilliant as a jog controller! The thing i'm interested in is that I have found an interesting 'issue'. I have two hard drives in my PC, one for general and one dedicated and optimised for Mach. I set the gamepad up in my general windows and then tested with Mach. Worked perfectly whether the gamepad software was running in the tray, or fully open for editing. Switched over to my Mach windows and found that the mach driver will only run if the gamepad software is started first and only running in the tray. If I start the gamepad software after mach, or open it editing then the driver freq drops to 100 and time in int varies widely (2-32) and the driver test refuses to run. If I start the software in the tray before mach, the driver test shows great and the freq and time in int are rock steady. I was curious as to why this might be affecting the optomised windows and not my general one - it's the same hardware, windows version etc? Cheers Dave www.machsupport.com - Web site Access Yahoo! Groups Links ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Orange vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. |
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Re: EMi and Loosing Steps Update
art
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Cant help much, Mach is not programmed to display faults from servos at all, so unless its a special spftware tweak, any fault woudl give you an Estop. Movement WILL be lost in that case.. Thanks, Art www.artofcnc.ca Videos And Support Forums Users Map: ----- Original Message -----
From: Callcbm To: mach1mach2cnc@... Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 2:28 PM Subject: RE: [mach1mach2cnc] EMi and Loosing Steps Update The fault wires from the Geckos were wired to the breakout bourd so the software would read the faults What I was not sure is. The axis stop moving was it a fault, or the buffer when the axis stoped the buffer was at 100% then it would go back to zero and the axis would start moving. When this happens the DRO freazes. I didnt understand how the fault wires wired to the senser hookup of the breakout board worked. The board is a pmdx-120.It's suppose to show a fault in the software I just don't now how Thanks Randy -----Original Message----- From: mach1mach2cnc@... [mailto:mach1mach2cnc@...]On Behalf Of art Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 10:45 PM To: mach1mach2cnc@... Subject: Re: [mach1mach2cnc] EMi and Loosing Steps Update Hi: >>. With the fault wires changed to the breakout board when the buffer reaches 100% I see all Axis stop, till the buffer goes down. My Question is, The buffer causing the lost steps and if so How can I increase it capacity? I still dont understand the above. Where are you hooking the fault lines to on the break out board. What signal?? Thanks, Art www.artofcnc.ca Videos And Support Forums Users Map: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Callcbm" <callcbm@...> To: <mach1mach2cnc@...> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 12:00 PM Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] EMi and Loosing Steps Update I changed the wiring of the Gecko fault to the breakout board and tried different pin setting on the motors The original setting works the best. If I run the Y axis back and forth 5-10 times the motor will stop and fault but it won't do it all the time its the same with X axis. With the fault wires changed to the breakout board when the buffer reaches 100% I see all Axis stop, till the buffer goes down. My Question is, The buffer causing the lost steps and if so How can I increase it capacity? The Ball screws have no bind when turn by hand so I don't think there a bind I was just cutting air. I can try to stop the head from moving it over power me so it seems they have good power |
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Re: port #2
art
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It looks from the code liek th eMaxNC will use only port 1 unless port 1 is turned off. It's pins are set to port1 and set pins, so there is no way to switch them. (I could be wrong, its complex code, but it looks that way..). MaxNC wave drive was a bit of a kludge to make work at all, no other controller seems to use WaveDrive. (well, very few anyway..). So I suspect youll have to keep the wavedrive only on port 1. Thanks, Art www.artofcnc.ca Videos And Support Forums Users Map: ----- Original Message -----
From: jehancocy To: mach1mach2cnc@... Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 4:27 PM Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] port #2 Art, I have a mill that works fine on port #1. I am trying to setup a lathe that requires wave drive and it also works fine on port #1. I am trying to change either to port #2 so that I don't need a db25 switch. It seems like I can't change the wave drive lathe to port #2 or at least I can't find a way to designate the port. Changing the mill to port #2 that uses a card with an address of b400 and b800 doesn't work. The port resets when I make a change in device manager so it looks like the system recognizes it (I hear the motors go clunk) but I can't get any output. I remembered to also change the enable signals to port 2 also. Any hints? Bhy the way, the search engine seems to be down. I keep getting a message that my search returned more than 5000 hits. Must be a yahoo problem... |
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Re: Tool change and speed control boxford lathe
I have just ordered one myself. Its not opto isolated so I'm going to use an opto for the input signals
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thanks for The FYI now corrected Ray ----- Original Message -----
From: Dave To: mach1mach2cnc@... Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 5:19 PM Subject: Re: [mach1mach2cnc] Tool change and speed control boxford lathe I just ordered one of those pulse to voltage converters from Duncan. He also shipped it very quickly. It should be here this week. FYI - Ray, the clock on your PC is wrong, so the email you sent ends up in the wrong place in the receivers mail box. Dave ray wrote: > Thanks Dave looks interesting will follow up > Ray > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dave > To: mach1mach2cnc@ yahoogroups. com > <mailto:mach1mach2cnc%40yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 3:23 PM > Subject: Re: [mach1mach2cnc] Tool change and speed control boxford lathe > > You may want to consider using a pulse and direction interface and going > with a device like this: > > Dave > > . com/Variable_ Speed_Control_ Board.htm > <> > > Ray Darnell wrote: > > > I have just converted a Boxford TCL125 to run with Mach3Turn. It has > > an eight way tool changer. Has anyone got a macro for a lathe turret > > tool changer for this lathe or one similar? Picture of actual tool > > changer is in UsingMach3Turn. pdf (page 34). > > > > Also I am looking for a circuit diagram or some hardware to convert > > the PWM signal for speed control to an analogue 0-10vdc signal. > > > > Any help would be much appreciated, > > > > Ray > > > > > > > > |
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spiral g code
My cmc mill will cut a spiral using lazy cam with g2 x y z-. It makes
1 360 degree spiral. I would like to go z-1.00 dropping down .100 per pass, so that I would need 10 passes. This is a Meldas m86 controller. I also have g12 available. Is there a simple way to get more that 360 spiral on the same line of code? |
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