G'Day Group

Is it possible to tell Mach2/3 to move a set distance, say the machine
is at X 500, Y 200 and you want the cutter to be at X 100, Y 50 can you
move it 400 units and 150 units???

TIA.

Ed

pindered wrote:

> Is it possible to tell Mach2/3 to move a set distance, say the machine
> is at X 500, Y 200 and you want the cutter to be at X 100, Y 50 can
> you move it 400 units and 150 units???

Simple:
Go to the MDI screen.
Type in 'G0 X500 Y50'
Or 'G91 G0 X-400 Y-150'

Hit Enter.


-C-H-A-R-L-E-S-

Art,
Is there any difference in doing a DoOEMButton(1000) instead of DoButton(0),
both is cycle start IIRC. ? Just trying to grasp as much of this I can since
I'm working on it at the moment.

TIA
     /Henrik Olsson.

> Hi Chris:
>
>
>> Cycle start  ==  1000
>> Pause ==  1001
>> Single Block == 1004

Art,
This may be out of the oridnary usage but I'll bring it up never the
less. I have made my own CycleStart button with the followng code in it:

********* C O D E ***********
Dim ExternalPowerOK
Dim ClampOK

ExternalPowerOK = GetLed(21)
ClampOK = IsOutputActive(7)

If ExternalPowerOK then       'Check external power
   If ClampOK = true then      'Check output to clamp
     DoButton(0)  'Press Cycle Start
   Else
     Message ("Can't Start Program, Clamp not extended")
   End if
Else
   Message ("Can't Start Program, No external power")
End if
*********** E N D  C O D E ******

What it does is check that I have power to my system and that a
pnematic clamp is actuated and only then does it start the program via
DoButton(0). The problem comes when I try to use SingleBlock with this.
The G-code window jumps to the last line and the program executes as if
single block wasn't activeated at all.

Is there something I can do? Can you fix it? Or will I have to avoid
Single Block with this one?

(Running RC1.0)

Thank you!
   /Henrik Olsson.

I have recently updated to Mach3.
In actual fact I was more than happy with mach2
The only reason I did the update was because I heard that Mach3 had an
improved pulsing engine.
While using Mach2 I noticed that the machine would have jumpy movements when
the feedrate override was over 150%
I notice that mach3 still does the same thing.

The odd thing is if I generate a fast feed rate gcode, I do not get the
jumpy movements. I would have thought that a fast feedrate gcode was
essentially the same thing as increasing the feedrate override?

G'Day -C-H-A-R-L-E-S-

Yes it was!!!

Thanks for your quick reply, this will help me with seting up the
machine.

Ed


  Simple:
> Go to the MDI screen.
> Type in 'G0 X500 Y50'
> Or 'G91 G0 X-400 Y-150'
>
> Hit Enter.
>
>
> -C-H-A-R-L-E-S-

ynneb wrote:

> While using Mach2 I noticed that the machine would have jumpy
> movements when the feedrate override was over 150%
> I notice that mach3 still does the same thing.
>
> The odd thing is if I generate a fast feed rate gcode, I do not get
> the jumpy movements. I would have thought that a fast feedrate gcode
> was essentially the same thing as increasing the feedrate override?

Same in here.
It gets better when you check 'No FRO on queue'.
The drawback is the feedrate is not immediately changed.

A few messages ago Art explained how FRO it works.

HTH,
-C-H-A-R-L-E-S-

For AutoCAD users importing a DXF file into Mach3, I offer the
following:

The problem: When the origin (0,0) is placed in the center of the
AutoCAD (using UCS move) drawing, Mach3 would place the origin at the
lower left extreme of the part when the file is DFX'ed into Mach3.

The solution: Do not move the UCS to (0,0) in the AutoCAD drawing, MOVE
the entire part from the desired origin or starting point to (0,0).
Mach3 will then start cutting at the correct origin (0,0)

Come and see my engines in the Photos section.  I have create, detailed
AutoCAD drawings.  No castings and all built with a Griz mini-mill and
7x12 lathe. Questions?

Ernie
South Florida

Have you tried 'mill-outlines.ulp', it works for me.
   -----Original Message-----
   From: mach1mach2cnc@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:mach1mach2cnc@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of bonxy2002
   Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2005 11:50 PM
   To: mach1mach2cnc@yahoogroups.com
   Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] PCB milling with Mach2 and Eagle Please help noob


   Hi all

   I'm new to all this cnc stuff and im having real problems trying to
   make a gcode file from eagle that will work in mach2 to mill PCB's,
   ive managed to make a drill file and that works fine but i just cant
   make a file that will route my board, i've tried running loads of
   diffrent *.ulp files in eagle but the boards look awfull when i load
   em into mach2, i've looked in the help files and it seems there is
   more to this than meets the eye.
   I have tried soo many diffrent ways that im going dizzy, can anyone
   tell me in plain english how to do it cos its driving me insane.
   please help if you know how.
   Thanks
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Have you tried the .ULPs in files section here under "Posts(cam
postprocessors)" and "Eagle post processors"?
Per


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wrote:
> Have you tried 'mill-outlines.ulp', it works for me.
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: mach1mach2cnc@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:mach1mach2cnc@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of bonxy2002
>   Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2005 11:50 PM
>   To: mach1mach2cnc@yahoogroups.com
>   Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] PCB milling with Mach2 and Eagle Please
help noob
>
>
>   Hi all
>
>   I'm new to all this cnc stuff and im having real problems trying
to
>   make a gcode file from eagle that will work in mach2 to mill
PCB's,
>   ive managed to make a drill file and that works fine but i just
cant
>   make a file that will route my board, i've tried running loads of
>   diffrent *.ulp files in eagle but the boards look awfull when i
load
>   em into mach2, i've looked in the help files and it seems there
is
>   more to this than meets the eye.
>   I have tried soo many diffrent ways that im going dizzy, can
anyone
>   tell me in plain english how to do it cos its driving me insane.
>   please help if you know how.
>   Thanks
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Hey,
    I'm just getting my lathe running and starting to learn how Mach3
works from a users perspective rather than a configuration
perspective. I was executing an MDI move from the Manual screen, and
there are no feedhold/cycle start buttons.  Even in the Auto screen,
feedhold/start only pops up when you press the cycle button and
prepare to load a gcode program (at which point the MDI screen
disappears).

    Is this on purpose that feedhold/start only work when running a
gcode program and NOT during MDI?

    What am I missing?

    This also leads me to MDI operation (which I know has been beaten
to death a while a back).  I plan to setup a keyboard emulator for a
set of industrial buttons (feedhold/cycle start etc...).  After you
enter a command in MDI, the MDI "window" stays open and takes any
keypresses after.  If you forget to close the MDI input "window" then
any hot keys, emulated or not, are non functional as they are taken
as a character in MDI input and NOT as a hot key for a safety control
(feedhold). Again, am I missing something?

    For this reason(safety), I think the MDI input "window" should
close automatically after a line is input/entered, so that safety
features (which come into Mach via keypresses) are functional.

    I hate to be using "SHOULD" so often, but; Safety/control of
motion should NEVER take a back seat to convienience/neat features
(which appears to be the case with the MDI window staying open).

Hi Tim:

   Bugs ARE the top priority right now, but I will add this to the list.
In fact the code is there, and I once turned on DTO DRO capbility. The
problem is a technical one , due to the use of a buffered controller,
it is very difficult to actually display a Distance to Go. By the time
the pulse engine strts to pulse, the interpreter may be 50 lines ahead,
and the pulse buffer may be 2 seconds ahead, so it can be very
difficult to handle a DRO capbility. That having ben said, MAch3 has
had one heck of a lot of changes made to it, so I may now be able to
find a way to do this for you. I know its a popular thign to have, so I
will try hard to get that one in when the stability gets to where we
need it....

Thanks
Art

Hi Jeff:

  Does the resource tab in the drivers list not list anything?
It shoudl at least tell us the base address. It probably isnt safe to
assume 0c00, but the 278 address is a legacy address that may work.
    When you checked for the address, where did you look??
Thanks
ARt


>
> I bought a VSCOM printer port card from a local
> place called Altex (anly place I could find that
> still sells them).  I went and installed it but the
> hardware properties dialog doesn't give a hardware
> address at all.
>
> Is there someplace else I should be looking?  Can
> I assume it'll take c000?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff

Hi Henrik:

    If you look in a buttons properties in the screen designer, the
first 35 or so radio buttons are actually DoButton( 0 - 35) codes, but
to make things a bit easier, they are duplicated by the 1000-1035 codes
in a DoOEMButton. If DoOEMButton sees a code grater than 1000, it
subtracts 1000 and calls DoButton. (SO its just an Ease-Of-Access
thing..

Thanks
Art

Hello Guys:

I just received a brand new unipolar four axis controller from Lowcost
CNC retrofits, so I installed it, selected pins all from port one,
connected it, but still have no response from the steppers, both in
Mach 2 following step by step instructions, and Mach 3 (Just a slight
vibration from the X axis when pressing the Jog in "Engaged Mode"),
have even tried modifying speed and acceleration on stepers. I think
now it may be a windows bug, but haven't been able to reebot any
computer though I ran the "Spybot". Please I would really apreciate
any tip if you have any experience with such brand of controller.

Regards

Antonio Ciurlizza

Hey,
    There could be a number of problems.  I checked the website and saw
your controller but didn't see any data sheet showing pinouts etc...

    Some stepper controllers require an "enable" signal to send power to
the motors.  With no power, you will be able to turn the stepper shaft
easily.  With power, the shaft should be nearly impossible to turn by
hand, IE. it will lock up.  Double check your documentation and see if
it needs an "enable" or "energize" signal to operate.  If so,
set "enable line 1-6" in Mach to the appropriate pin.  This way, when
Mach is Reset or taken out of Estop, the signal is automatically
active.  It goes inactive as soon as Estop is triggered.  See the
newest video on http://www.machsupport.com/

    If the motors are locking up, but no movement when you try to jog,
double check your step/dir pin configuration and hi/low active
settings.  Also, make sure you have Mach in 'continuous' jog mode
rather than 'incremental' or 'MPG.'

    Do some testing and get back to us with more details.  We will get
you going one way or another.  Good luck.

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> Hello Guys:
>
> I just received a brand new unipolar four axis controller from
Lowcost
> CNC retrofits, so I installed it, selected pins all from port one,
> connected it, but still have no response from the steppers, both in
> Mach 2 following step by step instructions, and Mach 3 (Just a slight
> vibration from the X axis when pressing the Jog in "Engaged Mode"),
> have even tried modifying speed and acceleration on stepers. I think
> now it may be a windows bug, but haven't been able to reebot any
> computer though I ran the "Spybot". Please I would really apreciate
> any tip if you have any experience with such brand of controller.
>
> Regards
>
> Antonio Ciurlizza

--- In mach1mach2cnc@yahoogroups.com, art <fenerty@a...> wrote:

>   Its in the Files sections under the utilities subfolder..

Thanks Art. I can't perform many of the suggestions as it's a desktop
machine I'm testing on at the moment.

If not ECP, what should I set the parallel port to?. I couldn't see any
mention of BIOS settings.

Richard

Have you tuned the motors. You need to set the steps per unit , acceleration and
velocity for
each motor  in config/motortuning.
Jim
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   To: mach1mach2cnc@yahoogroups.com
   Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 7:08 AM
   Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] Help Starting on my Retrofit from Lowcostretrofits


   Hello Guys:

   I just received a brand new unipolar four axis controller from Lowcost
   CNC retrofits, so I installed it, selected pins all from port one,
   connected it, but still have no response from the steppers, both in
   Mach 2 following step by step instructions, and Mach 3 (Just a slight
   vibration from the X axis when pressing the Jog in "Engaged Mode"),
   have even tried modifying speed and acceleration on stepers. I think
   now it may be a windows bug, but haven't been able to reebot any
   computer though I ran the "Spybot". Please I would really apreciate
   any tip if you have any experience with such brand of controller.

   Regards

   Antonio Ciurlizza




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> have seen things like the printer port beign ECP do this

Right, now I'm confused Art. I searched the group and found a message
where you were instructing somebody to change the port *to* ECP.

The options I have are Outut only, Bidirectional, ECP or EPP. It is
currently set to ECP and to "Never use an interrupt" in Device Manager.

Richard

Download and install Mach 3 Release v1.02.  Every time I load
Mach3Mill I get the splash screen, the program loads and then after a
couple of seconds the whole system locks up.  Mouse won't move,
keyboard dead.  Only thing that works is Reset button or Power off.

Brand new machine, Loaded Windows XP w/SP2 and drivers.  Removed
unessential crap that comes with Windows... No software other than
drivers and windows updates.  Clean install.

Single AMD processor machine, 2.? Ghz.  Very basic hardware, only add-
in card is the second parallel port card (which I have been using in
my old Mach3 machine).

Any things I should check to help diagnose this?  Purchased this for
Mach3 since the old box (was working) was slow and couldn't do the
highter pulsing rates.  Machine is down.

Hey,
    Sorry to hear you have troubles.  I ran 1.02 last night with no
problems.

1)  Run the ocxdrivertest.exe in your Mach3 folder.  It should show a
pretty solid ~25khz (25,000) timer rate.  Though it may easily be
24,578 or 26,349, so long as it doesn't fluctuate massively.  Maybe the
driver didn't load properly on install and/or you didn't reboot when
the install told you to.  Reboot and try Mach3 again.

2)  Try to reinstall Mach3 from scratch and REBOOT when install is
complete.

or

3) Run the specialdriver.bat file in your Mach3 folder.

    Let us know what happens.


--- In mach1mach2cnc@yahoogroups.com, "kepello" <carl@l...> wrote:
> Download and install Mach 3 Release v1.02.  Every time I load
> Mach3Mill I get the splash screen, the program loads and then after a
> couple of seconds the whole system locks up.  Mouse won't move,
> keyboard dead.  Only thing that works is Reset button or Power off.
>
> Brand new machine, Loaded Windows XP w/SP2 and drivers.  Removed
> unessential crap that comes with Windows... No software other than
> drivers and windows updates.  Clean install.
>
> Single AMD processor machine, 2.? Ghz.  Very basic hardware, only add-
> in card is the second parallel port card (which I have been using in
> my old Mach3 machine).
>
> Any things I should check to help diagnose this?  Purchased this for
> Mach3 since the old box (was working) was slow and couldn't do the
> highter pulsing rates.  Machine is down.

Ok, I'm behind due to a 3 month project that's pretty much sucked up any
time I might have had. Trying to get up to speed on Mach 3,
where do you setup mister, flood, and spindle outputs? On a related
note, is there an output that will go high when in single step, as well
as reverse?
(short of writing a macro to runin the macropump loop?)


erie

Spindle and coolant output setup is in Ports and Pins->Spindle setup
dialog.

I'm not following your second question about single step and reverse,
can you elaborate?

By the way, check out Art's new cool videos.  Make sure the sound is
on so you can hear his voice.

http://www.machsupport.com/

--- In mach1mach2cnc@yahoogroups.com, Erie Patsellis <erie@s...>
wrote:
> Ok, I'm behind due to a 3 month project that's pretty much sucked
up any
> time I might have had. Trying to get up to speed on Mach 3,
> where do you setup mister, flood, and spindle outputs? On a related
> note, is there an output that will go high when in single step, as
well
> as reverse?
> (short of writing a macro to runin the macropump loop?)
>
>
> erie

Assume you have a pendant that has industrial type pushbuttons.
You need operator feedback to tell you when you are in single step, as
well as reverse, therefore I need
to enable 2 outputs, one for lighting the single step PB and one for
lighting the reverse PB.

erie

Lance Hopper wrote:

>Spindle and coolant output setup is in Ports and Pins->Spindle setup
>dialog.
>
>I'm not following your second question about single step and reverse,
>can you elaborate?
>
>By the way, check out Art's new cool videos.  Make sure the sound is
>on so you can hear his voice.
>
>http://www.machsupport.com/
>
>--- In mach1mach2cnc@yahoogroups.com, Erie Patsellis <erie@s...>
>wrote:
>
>
>>Ok, I'm behind due to a 3 month project that's pretty much sucked
>>
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>up any
>
>
>>time I might have had. Trying to get up to speed on Mach 3,
>>where do you setup mister, flood, and spindle outputs? On a related
>>note, is there an output that will go high when in single step, as
>>
>>
>well
>
>
>>as reverse?
>>(short of writing a macro to runin the macropump loop?)
>>
>>
>>erie
>>
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>Yahoo! Groups Links
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Richard:

  SPP woudl be the normal mode. Most of the suggestions in it are for
desktops as well as laptops, so hopefully one of them will help..

Thanks,
Art
www.artofcnc.ca
----- Original Message -----
From: "gittt2000" <cnc@...>
To: <mach1mach2cnc@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 9:30 AM
Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] Re: R1.02 completes freezes PC


> --- In mach1mach2cnc@yahoogroups.com, art <fenerty@a...> wrote:
>
>>   Its in the Files sections under the utilities subfolder..
>
> Thanks Art. I can't perform many of the suggestions as it's a desktop
> machine I'm testing on at the moment.
>
> If not ECP, what should I set the parallel port to?. I couldn't see any
> mention of BIOS settings.
>
> Richard
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Hi:

   Optimise it with the optimisation list is what I advise. Also, try MAch2
and make sure its not a MAch3 issue. The optimisation
list is in the files/utility section of the group. Does the drivertest.exe
work ok? Does it look OK as well. (Check the setup vide to see what it
shoudl look like..

Thanks,
Art
www.artofcnc.ca
----- Original Message -----
From: "kepello" <carl@...>
To: <mach1mach2cnc@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 11:53 AM
Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] Mach3 Release 1.02 -- Machine lockup! Help!


> Download and install Mach 3 Release v1.02.  Every time I load
> Mach3Mill I get the splash screen, the program loads and then after a
> couple of seconds the whole system locks up.  Mouse won't move,
> keyboard dead.  Only thing that works is Reset button or Power off.
>
> Brand new machine, Loaded Windows XP w/SP2 and drivers.  Removed
> unessential crap that comes with Windows... No software other than
> drivers and >