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Dumping ground for miscellaneous shit related to my YouTube videos.
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Connect to MACH3 #6

Closed PaulKusch closed 1 year ago

PaulKusch commented 1 year ago

Hi! I just made your sketch! It works very well, but it does not give the commands to MACH3. I suppose that is a Mach3 problem, the command appears in MACH3 in "Diagnostics" menu, but there have no reaction in axis z as response to these commands (UP/DOWN). Have You any ideea how to set up MACH3? Or maybe another user that follow your sketch have any idea, how to do the right way?

Thanks in advance!

swolebro commented 1 year ago

Unfortunately, I have zero experience with Mach 3. I try to avoid proprietary software like the plague, especially if it's Windows-based.

Just throwing it out there, the desktop computer I ran LinuxCNC on was cheap and old. The hardware requirements are very minimal. Basically any machine with a parallel port will work. If you want to experiment with it, you could get a dedicated computer, swap the wiring from your Mach machine, and follow my LinuxCNC basics + HAL videos. Then if you want to go back to Mach, you swap the wiring back over. It's a time investment, but otherwise low risk.