They have it and I asked them to send it to you months ago!?
Blah, I will tell them again to get it sent off.. The Coil winder
screen is one of the screens set to be released on the new screens
page for Mach4.
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Engineering / Devlopment
ArtSoft | Newfangled Solutions
Livermore Falls, Maine (USA)
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On 4/4/2021 8:55 PM, Andy Wander wrote:
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Hey, Brian,
anything?
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Hi Brian, it’s
been a couple of months again-do you know if there has been
any progress on this?
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They guys
should have been testing it...
I will hit them again for a status.. Sorry they have been
using it as fill in work.
Thanks
Brian
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Brian Barker
Engineering / Devlopment
ArtSoft | Newfangled Solutions
Livermore Falls, Maine (USA)
Phone: 207(618)1449
Webpage:
On 11/30/2020 11:44 PM, Andy Wander
wrote:
Brian, any
movement on this?
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Hey, man, any
word?
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Good question! Let me talk to the guys.
This slipped my mind. I am getting old or something :)
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Brian Barker
Engineering / Devlopment
ArtSoft | Newfangled Solutions
Livermore Falls, Maine (USA)
Phone: 207(618)1449
Webpage:
On 9/1/2020 10:11 PM, Andy Wander
wrote:
Hey, Brian,
has there been any progress on the Coil Winder screens?
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I don't know how long the coil winder
is going to take but Brett seems to think the press
brake tables should be ready for testing in a few days.
Coil winder is after that. Rob got the screen done so it
is just the Lua code to make the Gcode files to drive
the winder.
On 7/6/2020 12:57 PM, Andy Wander wrote:
Thanks,
Brian-I’m good for now.
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I’ll nag
you about the Coil Winder and the Spindle speed thing
in a couple of weeks.
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Rob is on the floor now working on
the laser we are putting new motors and drives in :(
We are juggling a TON right now. If you seem to be all
set lets roll with it. We are trying hard to get a new
Rev out and I think it will fix most issues.
On 7/6/2020 11:03 AM, Andy Wander wrote:
Thanks,
Brian-no big rush on the coil winder, I just don’t
want to forget about it.
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I
tested the Turn Cycles yesterday evening and they
are all working now as well.
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Do the
only problem I now have is #4, the Spindle Speed
being reset when I first press ENABL after starting
Mach4.
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I got
an email from Rob this morning, and I tried to call
him, but I just got a message telling me your hours,
and then some music.
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I don’t
know if we really need to talk, though, since ESS
258 and Mach4 4517 seem to have solved almost all of
my problems.
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Hi Andy,
1. I have Brett working on a screen for an OEM and
it is taking a bit more time than I would like :(
When that is done he will go over what Rob has and
building a release.
2. Rob had a setup to test the ESS on the machine by
his desk Friday. I didn't know he didn't get back to
you, sorry about that. I have informed him of your
progress.
3. Check the mill manual, I have someone going over
the manual and checking them for the next release.
Attached you will find a section of header file,
look at that and tell me what you think (start at
line number 2113)
4. I don't fully understand why you would want to
have the Spindle Speed at start up but lets do that
after the rest of this is done please :)
Thanks
Brian
On 7/5/2020 3:45 PM, Andy Wander wrote:
Hi
Brian:
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1_
Has there been any progress on that Coil Winder
Screen?
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2_ I
didn’t hear from Rob, but I wanted to report that
most of my issues appear to have been solved by
ESS v258 along with Mach4 4517. I still need to
confirm that the issue with the Turn Cycles
getting locked out is solved; haven’t had a chance
to test that….
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3_ Is
there an accurate list anywhere of the Pound
Variables for Mach4? I have only been able to find
one dated 2015 by Scott Shafer, and I know that at
least one of the variables in there is wrong…..
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4_
I’ve got the issues with Mach4 not remembering
spindle speed and such between shutting down and
restart solved. I took the code that wrote the
saved values on startup, out of the Startup
Script, and put it in the “first-Run only” section
of the PLC code. This seems to work fine, EXCEPT
that when I hit ENABLE for the first time after
startup, it overwrites the correct value that has
been put into the S DRO by the PLC script, and
sets it to 0. This only happens the first time I
ENABLE MACH4, after that, if I set a value for S,
it stays there through DISSABLE/ENABLE cycles. Any
idea on what to look for? I couldn’t find anything
in any of the screen scripts that does anything to
the S word on ENABLE, or any place that treats
ENABLE differently on the first time it is pressed
after startup
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Rob is done the first round of
getting machines ready for release testing so I
have told him today is your test of turn. He may
be contacting you... As for the coil winder screen
Rob got most of that done before his return back
to work. I was going to have Brett continue on
with this as soon as he is done the bending
software I have him doing. We have lots of
projects we are working on so thanks for asking
about the progress!
Thanks
Brian
On 6/28/2020 4:35 PM, Andy Wander wrote:
Hi
Brian:
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Did
they get anywhere with the coil winder screen?
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What
about this weird problem with the Turn Cycles?
(they sure are great, when they work!)
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Hi
Brian-new update:
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I
was able to finish the part I was working on,
but I started getting FIFO Velocity Buffer
underrun errors from the ESS.
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Then,
the ESS started randomly going offline without
telling me.
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I
reverted to ESS v254, and Mach4 V4.2.0.4322, and
these problems went away(the FIFO and the ESS
going offline.)
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I
made a couple more parts using Late today, and
everything was working fine, using the Turn
Cycles for Facing, Turning, and Threading.
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Then
I tried a Rounding operation using Turn Cycles.
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The
Gcode looked OK, so I ran it, and it did all the
roughing cuts about ?” out from the end of the
stock, without actually cutting anything-then it
moved in to where it should have been and did
the single finishing cut, taking off all of the
stock that should have been done during
roughing.
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I
attached a screen shot of the Mach toolpath
window, as well as the .tap file for the
Rounding operation.
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I
“may” have entered an incorrect setting in the
Turn cycle entry screen, but when I went to
check, I cannot get the saved cycle to open for
editing, and I can’t get any of the Turn cycles
to open when clicking on their buttons. I get a
message that says,
Unable
to show wizard 4: wxLua: Expected a 'wxColour'
for parameter 2, but got a 'nil'.
Function
called: 'SetBackgroundColour(wxButton, nil)'
- wxWindow::SetBackgroundColour(wxWindow(self),
wxColour)
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I’ve
tried closing and reopening Mach4, and also
reinstalling Mach4, and I still can’t get at any
of the Turn Cycles.
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Hi Andy,
This is a step in the right direction! We have a
few more machines we need to get working so we
can get to the testing of the next release
testing. We have the Matsuura 500 and the plasma
table we need to get ready. The goal is to have
them both finished this week so we can start
testing Friday. This is when we will setup and
test the ESS.
Thanks for the report
?Brian
On 6/13/2020 3:16 PM, Andy Wander wrote:
Hi
Brian:
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I
have some more info and results on the
threading cycle not working.
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Today,
I backed up my current installation, and
installed ESS v257, and Mach4 4.2.0.4517
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I
needed to make a part that had a couple of
different diameters, and an external M14
thread at each end.
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The
turning was uneventful, but when I used the
Turn Cycles screen to generate code for the
first M14 thread, and tried to run it, it hung
up on the G76 line just as the Internal thread
had been doing earlier! Then, I realized that
I had accidentally generated code for an
Internal thread, but, this time, it was
different, as the actual Spindle Speed display
on the screen was very intermittent, usually
staying at “0”, but occasionally flashing the
actual measured RPM. This didn’t happen with
the installation that I originally reported
this problem on.
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So,
I thought maybe my lathe Spindle Speed sensor
had gotten damaged or something. At this
point, I set the machine back to in/min mode,
and started the spindle up, and the on-screen
Spindle Speed display worked perfectly. Going
back into the threading cycle, and in/rev
mode, the display was wonky again.
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Then,
I remembered that the release notes for the
ESS v257 plugin had mentioned something about
a new check box to tell the ESS whether or not
to report the spindle speed. I found that
check box in the ESS setup, and unchecked it.
Testing showed the same problem still
remained.
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I
then looked at the Spindle setting on the ESS
setup page, and changed it from PWM to “OB”.
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That
did it, the threading cycle now works, whether
ID or OD threading.
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I
still have the smaller problem of the spindle
making the CLUNK when it gets turned on again
while it is already on. I went into config and
disabled the Spindle ON, Spindle FWD and
Spindle REV pins in Mach4. This stuff was all
in there because I never disabled it when I
went to my Modbus controlled s[pindle. Alas,
this made no difference, I still get the
Clunk…
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They are working
on a coil winder screen and have the first
part of it done.
They did a bunch of testing and could not make
your issue happen. We have just started
working back at the office where we have all
the hardware for testing. We are getting the
machines ready for release testing now and one
of the things that will be tested is your
issue. We are doing the best we can in this
screwy time.
Thanks
Brian
On 6/11/2020 8:07 AM, Andy
Wander wrote:
Hi
Brian:
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Have
you had a chance to work on this?
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Also
any? progress on the coil winder screenset?
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That
may be from my PLC script. I am
interrogating the Modbus MPG register on my
pendant.
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Do you have any idea what
is spamming for the MPG? I don't think this
is causing you an issue, it is just bad
practice and I would like to eliminate as
many vars as I can. I was going to see if I
could clean the profile and figure this out!
I have a few things going on but I am trying
to get this done as quickly as I can.
Thanks
Brian
On 6/3/2020 12:46 PM, Andy Wander wrote:
I used to use relays
and PWM to control my spindle, but now I
use the Modbus plugin.
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I think that I left
the relay/PWM config alone, and just added
the modbus stuff. So Mack4 may be sending
controls for both methods.
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Pretty sure I
disconnected the relays and PWM/0-10V from
the VFD though. I will check that in a
bit.
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I need your profile
please. I don't understand what is firing
output #54 I think I am getting a better
idea what is going on!
Thanks
Brian
n 6/3/2020 11:09 AM, Andy Wander wrote:
Hi Brian:
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The logging window
is confusing because the SAVE button is
at the bottom, but there is also a “log
to file” button up at the top. What does
that top button do?
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I don’t think this
can be a hardware issue, as external
threading code from the Turn Cycle works
fine every time.
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Also, yesterday,
after I STOPped an unworking internal
threading program, I came back a few
hours later, rewound and ran the same
code, and it worked! Just once though,
after that it would hang on the 2nd
G76 line uust like before.
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Attached is a log
file; can you? see anything strange in
there?
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