Editing MACH 3 Screen Sets

[awemawson]

Do we have any MACH 3 experts lurking on the forum ?

I have MACH 3 running my plasma table - working well - it has customised screen sets designed by Purelogic (Russian outfit) tailored for the ethernet driven Torch Height controller.

On the screen is a button to enable or dis-able the torch height controller and it defaults to 'disabled' and thus displays Red. All I want to do it make it default to 'Enabled' and thus display in Green. As you might surmise I keep forgetting to enable it, and yesterday that cost me a set of torch consumables 

I'd imagine that somewhere a variable is declared as a binary value and given a starting state, but I've down loaded one MACH 3 screen editor (Machscreen C 1.66 by K. Dietz) and cannot relate the screen button / led to any code.

Any help would be appreciated . . .   

[PK]

It might just be as simple as running a custom M script on startup?
In any case I've pulled mach3 to bits and made it do unwholesome things for a number of occasions.
PK

[awemawson]

PK many thanks for the offer of help – rar on the way as an email – I hope it gets through as 37 mB !

The profile is “PLPLASMA” so I kick off ‘Mach3loader’ which lets you choose a profile, then I select ‘PLPlasma’ which brings up the customised screens.

There is a button labelled ‘THC enabled’ which starts off red (disabled) and can be toggled on by a mouse click. I want it to default ‘On’ at start up.

There is a custom macro M905.m1s in the mach3\macros\plplasma\ directory which will toggle the value, and looking at it, it is using ‘DoOEMButton(123)’ which looks to be a standard Mach3 defined button, but I want to specifically set it on – no use toggling when you don’t know the starting point !

I very much appreciate your assistance.

Andrew

[Biggles]

It is Russian; you can have any colour you like, as long as it’s Red. 

[awemawson]

 

[PK]

So the best way to do this is to get Mach3 to enable THC when it starts or when it resets.
This is a little hard for me to test because I can't get Mach3 to come out of reset. But it does work on another setup I lashed up for testing

Make a file called M1001.m1s in Mach3/macros/PLPlasma and put this in it.

If GetOEMLED(24) = 0 Then
   DoOEMButton(123)
End If

make sure you have a carriage return and a blank line at the end.
Restart Mach3 and go to config->general config

add M1001 to the end of the init string.
restart mach3

[awemawson]

PK thank you so much. I'll give it a whirl when I escape to the work shop !

[awemawson]

PK,

Tested and works a treat, many thanks 

I think I'll add M1001 to my post processor string as well

[PK]

Mach3 scripting seems a little arcane, but it's mostly about knowing what those OEMLED, DRO and CODE numbers are.. 
All of that information is concealed here http://www.machsupport.com/Mach3Wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Otherwise it's pretty standard basic script.
PK

[awemawson]

PK, I'd found that document and had tried a custom Macro file before you kindly helped, but I hadn't realised the need for a blank line after the code and was getting compile errors 

(ps please destroy the .lic file on the zip I sent you - it's an old one from the chap I bought the table from, so unfair to spread it around  )

[PK]

(ps please destroy the .lic file on the zip I sent you - it's an old one from the chap I bought the table from, so unfair to spread it around  )

Done

[awemawson]