As for your touch screen thing.. that sounds more like a touch
screen setting to register what a "click" event is. You may need
to set how fast a click is registered. I know we have a few here
that are slow to pick up a double click. I have to do it like 3
times to make it work (Mostly learn how to slow the heck down).
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Engineering / Development
ArtSoft | Newfangled Solutions
Livermore Falls, Maine (USA)
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On 3/13/2022 9:12 PM, Andy Wander
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Hi Brian:
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I got another
one for ya’.
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I copied and
modified one of the Axis Zero buttons on the Coilwinder
Screen.
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I changed it
from having a Left Down Action of “Zero Y” to having a Left
Down Script. The script grabs a number from a register and
sets the Y machine position to that number.
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The script
itself works fine, and the button works fine if I
single-left-click it with the mouse. But if I press the
button on my touch screen, it only works maybe one in 10
times. Pressing it always highlights the button, but the
script doesn’t seem to run most of the time-if I press it on
the touchscreen. It works every time with the mouse.
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I’ve tried
re-making the button, and also tried having using a Left Up
Script or a Clicked Script, with the same results.
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Any idea what I
might be doing wrong?
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Andy
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I think I like turns better but we can make it a selection..
The other 2 points seem easy enough
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Engineering / Development
ArtSoft | Newfangled Solutions
Livermore Falls, Maine (USA)
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On 3/6/2022 2:37 PM, Andy Wander wrote:
Hi Brian:
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I finally
downloaded and started to use the Coilwinder Mach4 screen
a couple of weeks ago.
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I had to
modify it to fit my setup but I also found a couple of
issues with the screenset as downloaded.
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-The
screenset is set up to use the A axis in units of
revolutions instead of degrees. I would bet most people
use degrees as the units for their rotary axes.
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-The “Write G
Code” button does not do what it says; instead it saves
the Gcode to a string and then executes it immediately as
an MDI command.
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-The
generated Gcode does not return to G90 Absolute
coordinates after running the code.
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That is not Epic at all! LOL
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I will see if I can get it to download
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Brian Barker
Engineering / Devlopment
ArtSoft | Newfangled Solutions
Livermore Falls, Maine (USA)
Phone: 207(618)1449
Webpage:
On 6/11/2021 12:37 AM, Andy Wander
wrote:
I see that
the Coil Winder screen is on the website, but when I try
to download it I get:
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Epic 404 - Article Not Found
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Good question.... BRB
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Brian Barker
Engineering / Devlopment
ArtSoft | Newfangled Solutions
Livermore Falls, Maine (USA)
Phone: 207(618)1449
Webpage:
On 4/28/2021 9:51 AM, Andy Wander
wrote:
Hi Brian:
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Any word
on this?
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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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Brian Barker
Engineering / Devlopment
ArtSoft | Newfangled Solutions
Livermore Falls, Maine (USA)
Phone: 207(618)1449
Webpage:
On 4/4/2021 8:55 PM, Andy Wander
wrote:
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?
Attachments:
- G76
that stops on second G76
line.log
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Attachments:
- MachAPI.h
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