Welcome to the new home for Mach1mach2CNC as MachCNC on Groups.io. Below is the farewell message posted to Yahoo. The time when Yahoo will no longer accept new content for this Yahoo group is 28 October, only two days away. This group is being transerred to a new group on the Groups.io web site and is already in the transfer queue. This message is being posted because it has become apparent that the transfer will not complete before the deadline for new posts on Yahoo. Indeed it may be several weeks before the transfer completes as the transfer queue has grown dramatically over the past week. An archive has been captured in case something goes wrong, but that only preserves content, not subscriptions. Because of the delay, I have decided to go ahead and announce that the Yahoo group is closed and to enable new subscriptions and posts to the Groups.io version of this forum. If you wish to participate before Groups.io sends you a welcome email, you can register manually on the web or via email. Otherwise you should be automatically subscribed to the new forum on Groups.io once the transfer is complete, and an email will be sent to confirm your subscription or to not subscribe if you do not wish to join. The web link to view messages in chronological order on the new forum is: https://groups.io/g/MachCNC/messages You can also view in a format threaded by topic here: https://groups.io/g/MachCNC/topics If you prefer to interact with the forum via email, the addresses to use are: Post: MachCNC@groups.io Subscribe: MachCNC+subscribe@groups.io Unsubscribe: MachCNC+unsubscribe@groups.io Group Owner: MachCNC+owner@groups.io Help: MachCNC+help@groups.io Once the group is transferred, I will contact previous owners and moderators to ask if they wish to participate in similar roles on the new forum. If the number who accept is insufficient to assure the future of the group, new owners and moderators will be solicited. Hope to see you on the new group. Regards, Steve Stallings www.PMDX.com

Groups.io has notified me that the transfer process has completed. It looks like the messages made it OK. The files did not come over. I will try again, and upload manually from my archive if that does not work. Initially 8872 subscribers were being sent notifications that they were being subscribed to the new group. As expected, some people do not wish to continue being part of the group and declined to be subscribed. This is normal because many people joined on a whim and have moved on to other things but had not previously bothered to unsubscribe. Hopefully this group will continue to thrive. Both Art Fenerty, the original author of Mach, and Brian Barker the current owner and source for Mach joined this group even before the transfer happened.

Is the wxtimer working as in the older versions of mach4 i still see the wxpanel and wxtimer event in the screenload script, but if i create a button and do a timer:Start(10) i get a message box saying there was a script error no other messages do you have to start the timer differently it used too work... or do you have to use the timers attached to the scr.StartTimer(0,100,1) only now thanks gary

Is there a way to check if any axis is in motion, after you excited a mc.mcCntlGcodeExecute command in a coroutine so the motion is finished before another mc.mcCntlGcodeExecute is excited ? or before the coroutine is killed or dead Thanks

good morning. short question.. do i need for threading a single pulse encoder or ab z encoder when i use uc300eth with mach3??? thanks

Thanks to the kindness of a member of another forum I got a fresh copy of mach3mill.xml for the new install of mach3 on a new laptop and everything is happy again. Thanks to all for their comments and sugestions. -B

my hard drive crashed, and I’ve got everything rebuilt except for the ESS plug-ins for Mach4 build 5036. I can’t seem to find the right plug-ins for that build, and was wondering if somebody could point me to them or possibly attach the two plug-ins here on the forum. thanks, thanks, Chuck

Hi Everyone, Wishing you full tables, joy, and no difficult relatives tomorrow. I’m having a problem with my Z axis in Mach 3. I open Mach 3 , set my X, Y, and Z., load in my .NC file, and press start. I’m cutting a part out of 70# density tooling board. It cuts like butter on my mill. My stick out on a .250 3Flt FEM is just over 3 inches. When I press start, everything looks normal. Except the Z. I’ve zeroed the Z to the top of my part, which is 2.520”. At this point, my scale shows that I have milled just over an inch. The reading on Mach shows: 2.24”. It seems that for every .250: on Mach is really about an inch off of the part’s Z. I have shut down the system and waited a couple of minutes before starting the computer and mill. Then rinse, wash, repeat. Does anyone have any experience with this and what did you do to fix it? Thanks, Terry Wellman

I'm re-doing an old machine retrofit & going through my collection of parts I found a new Skyko Pixie P100 step/direction to analog servo driver I never actually used, is anyone interested in it? I have the original pdf manual as well

The following photos have been uploaded to the % AXIS Steeel Mill photo album of the MachCNC@groups.io group. 61gWq9qYbIL._AC_SL1000_.jpg 20230726_152353.jpg By: Graham <gknox@...>

Hello, I am now the owner of this 5 axis mill from Chinacnczone Store. I was initially going to get it with MACH3, the shop persuaded me to purchase it with Easycnc as a alternative controller software. This has been a retrograde purchase and I am looking to change to Mach3 which I have used for years. The issue is that I cannot get any technical, configuration info on this controller. Has anyone beeen here? The existing I/O box is a genuine B "Black Box" it is black, works, no manufacturers or Part number identification. In fairness it does work. But I wish to add control relays and have no info as how to, or configure the logic/PLC type control. Has anyone been here before?? Regards Graham