I had a very weird issue today. I did a toolchange and when I went to start the spindle didn't start. So I stopped the program and I could turn on the spindle from mach. I went to cut again and then the Y didn't move. Luckily I caught it before I messed my part up. So I restarted mach and everything worked. Then the spindle wouldn't start again. So I played with it and the spindle would sometimes turn on. So I am thinking it is the bob or the smoothstepper which would bum my whole day out. So I get it not to start and I press the diagnostics tab and the spindle starts. So I press the program button and it shuts off. Back and forth and the spindle will start when I get off the program tab. So I now think it must be mach doing this. I went back and forth a bunch and every time it did it. I shut down and restarted and I was able to finish my cut.
So I am assuming I should reinstall mach correct? Can I just install on top of it? Does it wipe out my tooltable and machine definitions?
Any help would be appreciated!
-Keith