--- In DynoMotion@yahoogroups.com, Tom Kerekes <tk@...> wrote:
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> Hi Troy,
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> Well that changes things.  In that case you would need to add a VB command in the Mach3 Button before the NotifyPlugins(10500) to have Mach3 turn off the Spindle.  I'm not sure how to do this in Mach3 or if it will allow it.
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> Try adding:
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> DoSpinStop ()
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> Regards
> TK
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> From: tmday7
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> I have posted my current C programs. But iam not using a Spindle.c, spindle is controled by Mach3 and Modbus. http://tinyurl.com/8ueqzbe
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> Thanks,
> Troy
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> --- Tom Kerekes
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> > Hi Troy,
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> > What I meant by "Hardware Feedhold" is that feedhold is performed by KFLOP (in software) rather than in Mach3 so that there is no buffer delay.  You are already doing this.  So no you wouldn't have to make any hardware changes.
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> > If always having Feedhold turn off the spindle (and resume turn it back on) a first step would be to add code that turns off the spindle into your Notify C program that would turn off your Spindle at the same time it does the feedhold.  I believe that would involve adding something like a Jog(4,0);  Can you try this?  If not post your current Notify.c and Spindle.c programs an we will do it for you.
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> > Regards
> > TK 
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> > From: tmday7
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> > Hi Tom,
> > Both sound good and i dont see a problem with "..... to modify the Hardware feedhold/resume to stop and start the spindle automatically if that would work for you." When you say Hardware do you mean i would need to alter something on my VFD for spindle? Or KFLOP?
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> > Thanks,
> > Troy
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> > --- In mailto:DynoMotion%40yahoogroups.com, Tom Kerekes <tk@> wrote:
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> > > Hi Troy,
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> > > It seems Mach3 will not allow you to turn on or off the spindle while it thinks GCode is "in progress".  Pushing the Spindle On/Off button changes the blinking light on and off but doesn't send any message to the Plugin.  I see it allows setting the Spindle Override to zero.  The only thing I can think of is to add a new button (or modify the existing Spindle Button's behavior) that would send a new notify message (ie NotifyPlugins(10501)) that would execute C code to toggle the spindle on and off directly.  I tested and Mach3 will let you push other buttons that send NotifyPlugins messages while GCode is executing.  This might be tricky (but doable) because the last spindle speed and direction would need to be saved globally so the spindle speed could be toggled back on.  Other options might be to modify the Hardware feedhold/resume to stop and start the spindle automatically if that would work
> for you.
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> > > Maybe some Mach3 guru might know a workaround.
> > >  
> > > Regards
> > > TK
> > >
> > > From: tmday7 <brotroy7@>
> > > To: mailto:DynoMotion%40yahoogroups.com
> > > Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 9:54 AM
> > > Subject: [DynoMotion] Stop button with M01
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> > >  
> > > Hello Tom,
> > > Now that i have spindle under Mach3 control i was wondering if there is a way to allow manually controlling spindle on/off while running a Gcode?
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> > > While Gcode is running i push the Stop (edited to NOTIFYPLUGINS(10500))button to visually check part or tool, but i can not turn off spindle. I realize that Mach "thinks" that it is still running Gcode, but is there a way around this? Maybe somehow forcing a M01 to pause Gcode which should allow such spindle control. I tried adding code "M01" to button, it was ignored.
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> > > Thanks,
> > > Troy
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