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IMPROVED again. Driver Board Test Circuit.
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Added LEDs to motor side of Driver card to monitor motor pulses.
Very useful for verifying all signals...

IMPROVED Driver Board Test Circuit
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When designing original, I did not realize that in SHERLINE mode,
Mach3 OVERRIDES the config setting for step pulse width (1 to 5 uSec)...

P.S. POWER TURN ON SEQUENCE
The Toshiba Driver ICs on the SOC-ROBOTICS Driver cards
require a specific sequence of power up of the logic supply and
stepper motor supply voltages.

Power-on...

I designed a STAND alone CNC DRIVER Test board.
No need for PC, Software, etc. Does BASIC checkout
of Driver electronics, stepper motor, etc.

I am using SOC-Robotics Bipolar driver cards (4)...

The solution I do not see anyone suggest is BALTIC BIRCH PLYWOOD.
Don't know if plywood is acceptable for your friend, but is
great material to CNC WOOD. Baltic (not russian) is very stable,
uses...

After chasing my tail several times, only to find out one of my many fuses
had blown, I designed a Clever FUSE MONITOR, I use on each of my 4 axis.
USES ONLY LEDS (and a resistor) and will work at...

Gerry,

GOT IT. Another missing piece of info in the documentation.
VB is tripping over itself, have to put in a delay.

This works:
If GetUserLED (1105) Then
Call SetUserLED (1105,0)...

Gerry,

OK, I see, was not stated in the documentation that togglescreen could not be used
to switch Wizard screens. But I understand.

Had forgotten about different screensets in screen4....

Gerry,

I agree, seems unlikely that a script could continue to run after changing screens,
BUT.....I got this EXAMPLE script DIRECTLY OUT OF THE MANUAL from the MACH3 site !!!!...

Seeing other funny issues with this togglescreens function.
The vb script for the .sset keeps reverting to NONE (blank).
I never understood why all scripts have the same name, hiddenscript.m1s...

Maybe I am just thick headed, I cannot get ToggleScreens to work in a VB script.
Search of Web, bunch of folks seem to use it and it works for them.

I gave up with my fancy wizard, and created a...

GREAT !!!!! THANKS !!!!!!
I used the bottom run only part, as I was already writing my input
data to a text file.

One question. The 4 lines at bottom run fine as a stand alone script...

Can't figure out #1

Found an UGLY solution to #2
Use a .m1s file in the /Mach3 directory.
My C++ program writes to data_out.m1s, lines such as:

ModuleDRO = 1020
SetUserDRO(ModuleDRO, 1.234) ...

Have 2 vb script questions.

1. Need to have a VB script (fired off by a wizard button)
run an executable program outside of Mach3. Basically,
I have a program.exe that I want to start....

Wrote the attached Gcode for my DIY Woodworking CNC.
Remove the ".txt" as cnczone chokes on .nc type files.
SEEMS TO BE A VERY GOOD TEST, helped me track down several
issues with Play/slop, etc. ...

What I did on my DIY CNC was to put 2 drive nuts on the lead screw.
They have acme thread on inside, and much finer std thread on outside that screws
into the mounts. By unscrewing one, can force...

MAY HAVE figured out what it was doing.
I had text beside the button, that had a WIDTH that was bigger than
it needed to be, and was sticking out behind button. Shrunk unused text width,
and...

[QUOTE=gort;1246763]can't get buttons in screen 4 to work.

INTERMITTENT. Deleted my buttons, this time just used "BUTTON"
2 of 3 now work. 3rd will not work, deleted, added, deleted, added,...

can't get buttons in screen 4 to work.

Newbie, loaded screen4, did my whole complex WIZARD layout, added buttons, each has button image and the
transparent button over the button image. VB...

Tricks to get it to work:

0. Reset has to be clear.

1. have to hit ENTER after changing a number

2. Have to PICK a font else there is NO DEFAULT. Bunch available.

3. Z down is positive...

NEWBIE, so unsure if this will post in correct place. Fix for me.

ANYONE done anything with the TOMMY MAC blanket chest
carved panel featured in FINE WOODWORKING and on
PBS ROUGH CUT...