Mach 3 Has Never Looked This Good! (CNC Software Part 2) - S03E14

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Physics Anonymous Screen Set for Mach 3:
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Probing Macros:
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SwissU:
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[@chanchhaychhadanoun7125]

I'm a professional CNC machinist, this is absolutely amazing UI to date, any plan of showing us how you go about designing this?

[@Ale_Lab]

It's pretty easy. download Screen4 and try it out. Took me 30 minutes to modify this screening on my desires. Once you understand the principle is pretty easy. Search Screen4 on KZbin and there are a couple of tutorial. You do not need anything more. The software has quite some bugs but that how it is.

[@nickpowers2528]

Its not the software at all... its the operator i was commenting on clearly he's a amateur trying to act professional. .. and i am a professional engineer qualified in all metal manufacturing even Cnc. I can spot a fake !

[@amrmusa7217]

@@Ale_Lab im tring to make my own screen so that i would have an atc on my mill or route would screen4 make that? or machscreen is a better one ?

[@Ale_Lab]

​@@amrmusa7217​Both Mach3 and 4 accept custom screenset. I personally use Mach3 and I am fine with it. Mach4 is the new one but so far I do not have the need to change and if I will then UCCNC is a much better option and more affordable than Mach4. I am making in Mach3 ATC screenset for my mill too :-)

[@ray-charc3131]

Mach3 is great, I used it to design my toolchanging and touch probing screens. It is much easier to be done and learned than LinuxCNC that I also did before. In the mentioning of this video, it said that Mach3 has no two individually inputs for touch probe and tool height setter signals, I agree but this can be easily be rectified by connecting them parallel together as they are normally opened. As they are not used at the same time, so no problem, and they still use some common and individual variables in the program

[@GeneralChangFromDanang]

It looks great. The one thing I would recommend is a "distance to go" window, just so you know if you're going to plow into the table or not.

[@KaveendraVithana]

This is why User interfaces should be designed by UI engineers who knows what the UI is for. Hats off to your work!

[@TheFeralEngineer]

I've been using Verser probing on Linuxcnc. Same basic software. It works well. I had to modify it a little to work with my probing setup (spindle probe and fixed table tool setter, switchable between a relay), but it works well. Physics anonymous - do what i did, get a spdt relay and tie your probes into it. Switch between them with an output and use your pin input for both

[@SolarMillUSA]

how do you make mach3 automatically enable the output for the correct probe? Do you add a line of code to the probing macros?

[@TheFeralEngineer]

@@SolarMillUSA I don't use mach 3

[@craigfourie3485]

That is one beautiful interface! I think it was worth the effort to translate it.

[@wolfganglienbacher]

Massive congrats on this redesign! The engineering world gets to see the power of proper design craft. I was personally completely unable to once even touch mach3 because of it's ui. I got here because of your mach4 video, and was constantly giggling at the ui in the background thinking: "what this is mach4? boy it looks pretty dang good compared to mach3" - and then you showed the actual screenshot of mach 4 which gave me a jawdrop followed by a solid multi-minute-facepalm. Again, phenomenal work on the UI! It would be nice if this gave a bit of inspiration to other cnc software makers.

[@slasher102]

I have not used Mach3 for the very reason you have made ane screen set, but looking at what you have done is Brilliant and i take my hat of to you, also thanks very much for making the free, i have wached all your videos and they are all top draw, Keep it up and again i appreciate the work involved.

[@Wolfesmetalfab]

@Physics Anonymous I think your logic on setting up the screen set is spot on and your design sense to make it look good while functioning is also great. I will very likely use your screen set for the mill and modify yours slightly for a our Alpha Wolf CNC Plasma table as well. I always meant to make my own screen set, started once, changed a few things and then never took the time needed to do the whole thing. I did have 1 recommendation so far with watching your explanation, On your probing page the tip diameter, you should input your exact size and make another input box called calibration adjustment (or something like that) and that's were you could put in the amount you need to adjust it to make it accurate, then it would be clear and less confusing I think. Again, great job!

[@soniclab-cnc]

I absolutely did this to all my machines. I love the new interface. Some things don’t totally work but everything I need works great.

[@moto_MO]

Thank you for this! And to help you with your probe problem, use a double throw switch. One pole hooked to the tool setter, the other the probe. Then just flip the rocker whenever you need to switch between the two. if you want to get fancy, you can get a relay setup and have it do it automatically with a macro and just have it activate the correct relay latching position at the start of the macro. I went the easy route with the switch as i had the switch already. but it is the same amount of work to do either.

[@ianfosterUSA]

This is fantastic, works on my Mach 3 plasma table, love the fact I can jog it without using the tab key. Excellent 👍 job. Will definitely make a donation

[@toddmayta7615]

How do you adjust THC settings with that screen set?

[@MadScientistGuitarLab]

It’s about time! Mach3 always looked like windows 3.1 to me. Great work!!

[@zedsdead7670]

I'm a CNC machinist and this is an amazing UI. I'd rename the M18 to single block and add block skip. Also have single line, single block, and block skip next to each other. I'd also move the start stop pause to a corner, either the bottom left or right, then have the emergency stop at the corner directly above that cluster.

[@wmt16]

Awesome work! We would need your design skills in the LinuxCNC world, great job!

[@EZ_shop]

Very nice Mach3 screen. By the way, thanks for putting links to what you use in the description. I wish more people did that. Ciao, Marco.

[@SupersonicHeart]

I liked your screenset. I made my own based on yours and changed some things) Now I'm assembling a new cabinet for the machine, when I finish I'll make a new review of the machine and the interface.

[@riri8264]

Congratulations on this U.I. of Mach3,indeed you did a great job about this layout,it the best good looking and ergonomic that Mach has out there. Take a peek at Datron's U.I you may like it and get inspired from it. Thank you for your generosity and sharing these videos. Be blessed and salutations from France.

[@mariofernandoschettini1343]

My friend, you were absolutely brilliant in this creation, congratulations!

[@Chris6000]

Thanks for this, I am using your screenset with some of my own modes Your screenset is the best looking that I have seen

[@minskmade]

this is awesome. downloaded and tipped. anyone who downloads this should be tipping...such a smart clean ui. makes using mach 3 a much more pleasant experience.

[@EngraverBG]

First of all - UNIQUE JOB !!!! Really brilliant interface! Just one remark: Everywhere you use INCHES, but in my part of the world, we use Milimeters ! So IF it is possible, it will be a good idea, the screenset to read this info from Mach3 and to exchange INCHES in Milimeters in the buttons where they are used.

[@robllewellyn]

Brilliant.. I wasn't ready to go back in time just yet!

[@routercnc9517]

Nice work ! I think I will give it a try. Noticed a typo on the probe screen ‘work peice’ should be ‘work piece’.

[@futonmonkey82]

I have always been way too lazy to do something like this. Thank you!!

[@TheFeralEngineer]

I made a Siemens 840D clone skin and no matter what I did, it would never load the right resolution, so I gave up

[@404_profile_not_found]

13:19 - For touch screens, a single tap or touch - even held down - is considered a click when there's no movement of the touch. to get around it, you should be able to tap twice in succession, with the second tap being held down as the "long click". So "tap" and "tap+hold"

[@Ale_Lab]

@Physics Anonymous !!!Guys please put it in the decription!!! Took me quite some tries to figure it out what was missing. You forgot to say that you need to cipy all the original macros from vers.by/en/ in C:\Mach3\macros\"your Machine profile in used". On the website you can find the installation instruction. You do not need to also install the probe wizard since the macros are already included in the sceenset (they work both for Metric and Imperial). I converted the screenset in Metric and add some features in case someone needs it.

[@MrSjalvklart]

yes metric would be great

[@Ale_Lab]

@@MrSjalvklart if you want I can send you mine. I shared between friends, so I made a readme file and a wiki to how to use it. I added quite some feature compare to this one.

[@MrSjalvklart]

@@Ale_Lab would be great awsome

[@Ale_Lab]

@@MrSjalvklart send me an email to [e-mail], I will send you the zip file with everything. Being using it for 4 weeks now... It's a dream.

[@MrSjalvklart]

@@Ale_Lab done ..

[@dbalderson89]

As a fellow software developer and interface designer, I thank you. Watching other hobbyists working with Mach3 with that old interface drives me nuts. Functional, but not pleasing or intuitive. As a side note, I find it interesting that so many people who work in software development take hobbies that deal with machining or making. Or in my case, watching content about it, since I don't have the space for all those awesome toys.

[@AljosaPismonosa]

This screens gave me another reason to stay on Mach3. Nice job!

[@SuperYellowsubmarin]

This is brillant work. Artsoft should purchase your screenset to make it default when you get Mach3.

[@nickp4793]

I also want to add I could never stand the buttons themselves on mach 3. They were all diffenrt colors, and it was hard to tell if one was pressed or not. Thank you for making them all the same color. That helps a lot knowing if one is pressed. (note I'm also colorblind, so its harder for me than most other people). The line you put at the bottom of each button that lights up is ok. I wonder if it can be improved slightly more, to easier tell at a glance if a button is pressed or not.

[@ShopBotix]

When using Mach3 and a touch you need to use two fingers to activate a momentary switch like jog buttons. I think the jog buttons are the only momentary (press and hold) buttons in Mach3. The press of the buttons needs to be one finger first then the other (staggered). I always found it weird and limiting but it can also act as a safety feature. Having to use a double touch to jog helps eliminate accidental movements of any axis that can be jogged.

[@sm6fie]

Very good work, like the logic of the layout. Will test it later when my upgrade of my CNC is completed…

[@jigsey.]

Mike thank you so much... I couldn't get mach 4 to connect to my board so I'm stuck with mach 3...this is a thing of beauty.... Now I must get a touch screen monitor to complete my life 😁😁

[@stevenrichardson7882]

Glad I’ve found you, hopefully in a couple of months when I’ve finished my CNC router build I’ll come back to your tutorials 👍 Steve in the UK....

[@jagadishapandurangaiah6556]

Very good job, very useful and user friendly. Continue the good work and keep updating

[@janwynants4819]

Just downloaded it and wil be putting it on my machine. Thanks!

[@user-cw6ip9ps3g]

Hi, I can't get the Center probing buttons works, all the buttons under the "Center" section giving the same errors, please help, Mach3 Version R3.043.066 Thu - 22:00:31 ---Error! Probe tripped during X movement Thu - 22:00:32 ---Return to the search position is interrupted

[@turbandominique]

Hello I have the same problem have you them answers. Dominique

[@tylernewcomb1431]

Definitely using this! Thank you for putting in the time to make it!!

[@Philcoopersworkshop]

I really like your layout for Mach3, so much so that I decided that I"m not going to try to do my own now. Thanks for sharing!!

[@psracing71]

Unfortunately, not all functions are available with this beautiful appearance. For example, the offset, which is important to me because I often use several 0-points G54-G55- etc

[@amazinplays7813]

Fantastic, many thanks for your screen set and videos

[@rfasp7]

I found a bug, on the WCS (Offsets) window when numbers are input from 1 to 6 the MODE line command does not update (G55, G56, G57, G58 AND G59) automatically but from number from 7 to 209 it does. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR AWESOME work for this update screen set. I crushed a work pice but I found the bug thanks to that 😅

[@carlpetitt2241]

Nice work, but as a fellow UI guy, I noticed that the section that contains "Probe Active" and "Dwelling" and "Constant Velocity" appears to just be a display of status, either the probe is active or it isn't, for example. But the other (identical) 'buttons' above and below, such as Jogging and Set Tool Height appear to be action buttons rather than displays of status. This is very confusing to the operator -- what is clickable / actionable vs. what is simply displaying a state or status? I found I had this same confusion lower in the UI, with Speed and Tool for example. I think you should be very consistent in terms of visual cues regarding what is a button that can be pressed or manipulated by the user, vs. simply a display of status. My .02 cents

[@gtcollection6933]

Very nice UI. I'm using it now and find it very easy to use. Thank you very much for that contrib. ps. I've cloned the mill one and made a 2ax Turn LSET identical to the milling one, less the Y and A axis ofc. Shop's cool now!!!

[@harisan5135]

It would be great if you could make a new video demonstrating how you measure tool height and zero the tools using your template/theme and the remote zeroing tool.

[@CncWoodProjects]

Thanks for share this screen set it works perfect for my monitor and look awesome.

[@boomaga2376]

I didn't understand anything about the sample tab, I had to figure it out on my own, figured it out))) I think this is the best thing on mach3, thanks to the developer ничего не понял про вкладку пробы, пришлось разбираться самостоятельно, разобрался))) считаю, что это лучшее что есть на mach3, спасибо разработчику

[@thedarkside1858]

Thank you for making this much needed UI 3>

[@bluebull1985]

will you do it for mach 4 also? please!! 🥺

[@GatorGlider]

Hey PA! This video just scratched the surface of the probing section. To me that one of, if not the largest, part of your screen design. Would you do a follow-up with an in-depth look at the probing and how it's setup? I've picked up you set and switched to it but it seems like none of the routines work correctly.

[@Jeff-of7ku]

Great video series! I really like the comparison you did at least verbally between Mach 4 and 3. I have been trying to decide what CNC interface I would like to use. This seems to narrow it down!

[@tech477]

I am curious what did you use for the design, and setting up the screen later? Is it Figma or something else? MachScreen? I see a hint of Neumorphism in the drawing, it is flat, but not quite. I would love to give a shot at my own design.

[@SupersonicHeart]

It's funny, it looks like we even have the same monitors, Iiyama. Only mine is in vertical orientation.

[@fredrikterent8697]

Fantastic. Looking forward to use this!!

[@jimviau327]

That's a really nice analysis. MACH3 .vs. MACH4 . I wish you do one comparing LinuxCNC as well. Didn't see it in your videos. Great job. Thanks

[@sbirdranch]

I have been running Mach3 for a number of years now on a Router and a Plasma table. Just today I wondered if I would gain anything from switching to 4. So I sat down and started playing with my screen set.....blahhhh....the screen editors are garbage. I run a team of software guys doing web base situational awareness with some very cool UI/UX. Your videos were a good find. Thanks. ~P

[@coolmountainlife]

Sweet job! Thanks for sharing!

[@gooshpoo2]

I got stuck and was stressing out my control board only uses mach and im having problems with mach 4 crashing and being buggy. i was about to trash 800 bucks of electronics but with your ui you gave me hope with mach 3 thanks buddy.

[@paulcarter7238]

to start with just thought you were winging but the end result is very useful thanks will try it

[@d1lldb]

Looks good man. The only things that makes my OCD freak is that you call it "single line".. in gcode each line is called a block therefor it's called "single block" also I would highly recommend adding "optional stop" and "block skip"

[@steinaralpenmob]

Great and informative video, but I wonder if it changes the settings on the machine so that I have to set it up again

[@Nor1MAL]

I'm not sure if he mentioned or not, but in the probing tab, it says "Work Peice", when it should be "Work Piece" :)

[@MakeTechPtyLtd]

Regarding windows touchscreen. I've had to switch "tablet mode" on IIRC with some issues I had with a big multi screen rig. That might help you. I've just uploaded a video covering Clearpath servos. The HLFB pin can be set to have various outputs. This may be usable for homing. Look at ASG (All Systems Go). Maybe a combination HLFB and a traditional limit switch in series would signal a homed state, only when the hard stop homing operation has been completed, and also not trigger a homed state if HLFB triggers during normal operation. Keep up the great work. -Ken

[@rostislavslavov2993]

XYZ Min and Max are actually called: Distance to Go in professional CNC controls and for me is THE most critical information that you must have front of your eyes! Well, not all the time, but just to prove to yourself you took your tool length and coordinate system correctly when setting a new job. It works only with "single block", or as you called it "single line". The way I set a new job is to go with single block just before entering the tool in cut. Then I deactivate single block and leave the machine to do it's work. And if I made a mistake I can see it and pause it before is too late! For me looking like this Min and Max are bit confusing. See how professional controls show coordinate page! Most of them show four coordinates: WCS, Machine, Distance to Go and Operator. I'm using all the time WCS and Distance to Go. If I can recommend some changes it will be to be closer to a professional control but not fully copying it. I have HAAS machine and I love their control, but there are some minor things that needs to be improved. Fanuc is honestly very old and is bit outdated. All professional CNC controls are going Tousch screen now, but this transition is yet very slow. You are on the right path! I think that optimized Mach 3 can be competable with all professional controls at least for the low-torque machines. And I believe there is a big market potential for professionally looking low-torque machines too! Tormach is a good example, but the reason I'll not invest in Tormach is because their machine axis are moving on dove tails. In my opinion, very good quality build-in Europe or America machine with modern linear bearings can be even cheaper than the Tormach IF there is a good looking professionaly made control! So, in conclusion: I'm not using graphic area at all (for that purpose I have Fusion) and I prefer to have WCS and Distance to Go on that screen with big numbers and letters instead! P.S. I have a project in mind about small two axis lathe. How do you feel about a cooperation in such project?

[@jdmorgan82]

OK, so check this out. Your touch screen button issue can be solved by disabling the feature that turns a press and hold into a right click. I had this issue setting up customer HMIs on oil rigs.

[@RexusKing]

Honestly I was thought you two brothers are both mechanical/electrical engineers?!

[@OldManGaming69]

Great video and UI. I tried to download the PA screenset but it doesn't work.

[@amazinplays7813]

I’m sorry to say it doesn’t work for me either, pity it looks fantastic

[@johanstrom8473]

This is some really good work, definitely taking removing a lot of the eyesore of using Mach 3! I've been in the early preparations for building a physical control panel with a matching Mach 3 screen set and here's some unsorted observations and input from watching this video as well as relevant parts from my own notes in anticipation of a project like this: Absolutely have separate buttons for go to XY0 and Z0 - and for the love of god put them at safe distances away from each other so you don't accidentally click one of them when you meant the other. Or anything else. I usually Z0 on the top of my part because it's more idiot proof so it's not so bad for me as it could otherwise be, but unintended movement is always bad! Along with these there should also be the conceptual opposite, "go to Safe Z", which I configure in Mach 3 to be at the top of spindle travel (max retract). If you didn't use this feature in Mach 3 then I highly recommend it, it makes sure the tool automatically retracts when you hit the stop button, among some other things. There's also a decent argument to be made for having a "go to tool change position" macro button that would go to a user configured coordinate so that you can reach the spindle on a gantry router. I would keep subtle, stylish but readable text on the icons to the left of play/pause/stop. Apart from rewind, none of those icons really are fantastically obvious and it doesn't hurt to have a clarification as well. The emergency stop button should say something more explicit or at least different than "stop", to make the distinction clear from the ordinary stop button. If a hard end-stop is triggered then that axis DRO can be highlighted in some appropriately angry color. There's lots of space available to the left of the location coordinates. I'd have a small (maybe 20% of the height of the field) slightly grayed out coordinate in each line at the bottom there, left aligned, showing machine coordinates when the work coordinates are normally shown in the large DRO and vice versa. Assuming Mach3 can handle displaying both of these at the same time - I'm very much not up to speed on the technical limitations. The XYZA ref and reference all buttons are usually only used once per day if even that - I think they should be much smaller (in width) than the XYZ zero buttons that you will use almost every setup. It's good to highlight their relative use frequency, lets you easier find the one you need visually and takes up less space. I'd probably make them dark like the other unobtrusive buttons as well, not the bright color of the zero buttons. You say on the resume from line, Mach 3 just starts running commands at that point - for me, Mach 3 has a window that pops up and it simulates the program up until that point and figures out where the tool is supposed to be so that it can restart at the correct point of the program. Is that not on this screenset? Since you moved the program min/max axis values to the main page, there's only one thing missing from the stock Toolpath page now - simulate program run. A button that runs the simulation and tells you estimated program run time would be very useful. If this then further could be coupled with current run time and calculate percentage number, estimated time remaining and estimated clock time at finish that would be exceptional. Personally I like a decluttered interface as much as possible, so I'd want a version without the jog buttons for non-touchscreen users. Same with the axis readouts and buttons - a separate version for XYZ, XYZA and XYZAB machines. I do realize this very quickly turns into a painful number of versions to keep in parity :D. Mach 3 (and most other controllers) actually has a huge amount of available fixture coordinates (work coordinate systems). The normal G54-G59 and then G59 P1 all the way up to G59 P254 are all available. G59 P1 through P6 are macros for G54-G59. I've never actually managed to make the hard limit override actually work in Mach 3, but if it does and you can, I think it belongs somewhere near the soft limits switch. Good for when you need to jog the machine off a limit switch and you don't want to power it down and move it by hand. I'd like another spindle DRO next to actual/set RPM - us router users with the Huangyang VFD often use one of the plugins that communicate with it via serial, and that way we can also get the spindle current in ampere and show it on a custom DRO (with any configurable number). If this is possible/supported in Mach 3, I want to have more obvious readouts about the important modals than the string of mode gcodes. a button/light that reads RAPID/FEED for G0/G1 and ABS/REL for G90/G91 for example. Those are the ones I pay attention to most of the time but I'm sure there are more, like cutter compensation (G40/G41/G42 and G43/G44/G49) and machine coordinates (G53). Also if the machine is in a canned cycle like drilling, cause it can't be stopped, paused or interrupted by the normal buttons then. Hell, if possible just macro the stop button to also fire G80 (cancel canned cycle). Possibly G20/G21 too but I can't imagine many people who ever really switch unit systems and need to see it. For tool length probing, I'd love to see support for a somewhat common way to do it on routers where you don't have repeatable tool length for tool changes. You probe normally and zero Z with no tool length offset on your intended zero, then you change tool and the machine goes and touches a plate that's fixed to the machine at a known height, so it can measure the difference in length from the previous tool to the new one and use that for the offset. I didn't dig too hard into this, but our machine is originally a kit, and while ours is wired to use the probe pin for a conductive touch plate, I do think the instructions mention that you can save a pin by using one of the Z end stop or home switch pins for probing instead. I don't know how this would be handled in the macro or anything like that, but might be worth looking into for saving that pin config swap!

[@chrislivengood7350]

UCCNC my man. I ran Mach3 for years and got those once a week issues. UCCNC goes for months without issues, and it is still being developed. So instead if building screensets for software that is clearly flawed in multiple ways you could land on something modern and still evolving.

[@94ultra]

Great job. Going to try it, TY. Well worth a donation. 👍👍

[@inspiration7203]

I loaded PA Interface_v05.set, it doesn’t work for my 1920x1080 screen. Any suggestions?

[@brendinemslie8226]

Awesome! Any thoughts on making one for plasma?

[@puder411]

would love to see this for plasma!

[@darkbielz]

Hi, is there a easy way to adapt to HD screens? my current setup is running and old 1280x720p LCD panel, and the mach3 interface does not seems to scale accordingly to the screen size. So i'm trying to unravel the mysteries behind mach3 interface design. Thanks

[@iSuperMC]

Did you find a solution, I’m having this problem too

[@darkbielz]

@@iSuperMC there is a option in the configuration window that scales the UI to the screen size, it's not perfect but gets the job done (you have to restart Mach 3 in order to apply this change).

[@tonycervone6494]

Great job. Best Screen so far. Where's the "run from here" button? I think it's a must have option when correcting a cut.

[@breckchaisson4325]

Great videos! I am primarily a metal worker but am in the process of building a CNC router and was in the process of picking between Mach 3 and Mach 4. You have helped me make that decision. If you are interested in doing another video along these lines how about a step back and describe your computer hardware setup. Two things in particular, the PC you are using isn’t available at Amazon but it has way more processing power/memory than Mach 3 requires. What do you think is the minimum I should look for to run Mach 3? Mach 3 requires a parallel port, what is your hardware/plugin solution for that?

[@TheFeralEngineer]

It doesn't require a pp, you can get an Ethernet smooth stepper. Mach software isn't really the best choice, imo. I've used it for over a decade and it was a frustrating rollercoaster. I'm now running LinuxCNC. It's free, it's heavily supported and still in full development. The probing software is the same as PA is using and also free. If you don't have a computer with a PP you need to decide on which route you want to go, because breakout boards for Mach and lcnc aren't compatible, but if I had to do it over again, I would've gone with lcnc from the very beginning. Lcnc is such a compact program, you can run it off of a pi, basically.

[@14768]

This is absolutely amazing. I've always avoided Mach3 at all costs because of the totally garbage interface. You have done a fantastic job here.

[@gillesst-onge]

Nice job, really nice! Thank you

[@alexanderkozedub6638]

hey! you've done such a great job! thank you a lot! one thing, could you bring back "settings" page? it has some important buttons like axis calibration. also is it possible to change in/min or in/rev to units/min and units/rev for easy reading in countries using metric system? thanks in advance!

[@Clough42]

Is there any provision for manually touching off a tool? I use a Haimer and plan to touch off tools using a gage pin. So I would need a field to enter the pin diameter and a button to set the tool length to the distance from zero, minus the pin diameter. I didn't see that in your UI.

[@PhysicsAnonymous]

Good input Clough. I think that's something I can add pretty easily. I am working on a new release now. I should have something out in the next few weeks

[@Clough42]

@@PhysicsAnonymous Awesome! I have been playing with MACH4, and I am pretty surprised how not good it actually is.

[@jonnyz69]

Great minds... Thanks PA!

[@bobr.4614]

Keep looking. Mach3 can use probe and a touch plate on the same input. I just don’t remember how I did it. Sorry. I’m at out there.

[@gerritbruggink8545]

Best.... I'm having a bit of fun with this beautiful screen. i sent Oslo a massage to Christian. Find out if you use all axes zeros in the first screen, then there will be no 0 but a number? if you press zeros again, this value adds up. Can you explain how this is possible?? kind regards Gerrit

[@mariofernandoschettini1343]

The probe, with the original screen works!

[@aol7278]

hello, grate work! i have found your screen for some days and i have test it out, but i can't find the "override button" to drive back when the limit switch is triggert?

[@user-nu6cg9cb2e]

The guided tour is nice, but I would like to follow along on my own screen. So I would have preferred download & install instructions nearer the start. YMMV

[@skysurferuk]

Why did you not include the "Run from here" button? Thanks for sharing, might have a go with this.

[@bitro]

its not working for me, i just see black backscreen and a few random color blocks, some text, and nothing else, looks like the programm ist broken. How can i reset the view?

[@faxoli]

you need to load screen again from dropdown

[@razisindi49]

Nice screen, good tutorial and well done.

[@josepenalver652]

Hey hello, congratulations for your very functional screen, nice look and very practical... In France we use millimeters, how will it be with your screen for feed rates...etc?

[@sthompson8376]

Thank you for the video, you have designed a great screen set. I will be using this with a CNC router. I might change the coolant button to Vacuum. Can I use the editor that I use to change the Mach 3 screen set? Is the link the screen set the most current screenset?

[@turbandominique]

Hello, I can't get the edge detector to work, no matter what I do, I've set all the values as shown in the video and all I get is "Error! The sensor was triggered during movement Z ---Return to search position is interrupted" or "Manual return to start position and repeat search", but I can't get it to work. Do you have any idea what the error is? Dominique

[@themanwithtwoeyes]

Thanks.

[@sku300Fi]

great job! thank you for share it

[@user-ov4ss7zi5w]

Dear! I tried to find 0 parts by Z, put the cutter on and pressed the probe z button. He measured everything well and drove away from the part to a safe distance. I decided to check and after pressing the go tu zero button, the milling cutter went to 0 machine coordinates ((( and zero was at -157 mm at the bottom (what did I do wrong? Sincerely, Igor

[@cnc_workbench]

Yo digging your work!! please add "Limit override" button, once you hit a limit switch cnc machine is stuck without an override.

[@tomcypher3864]

Oh man! This shifted me choice towards mach3!

[@gangleweed]

I'm totally new to CNC although I had a CNC mill for about 4 years and I just play with it writing programs for fictitious parts for practice and learning CNC and have not cut any metal with it to date. I get the impression, watching this vid, that you are the kind of guy who buys a brand spanking new car and before it hits your driveway you are ripping out the sound system to fit some weird high tech gizmo GPS capable thingo with an alarm built in that tells you if anyone looks at your new toy in an envious way. At the same time you are waiting for a complete new set of tyres that are only available to special order because you want to do things that cars were not designed to do but your friends think it could be cool if you could do them...off road of course etc. But it get worse.....the paint work needs to be refreshed because at night it appears to be a dark blue whereas there is no blue in the designer paint pallet that it came with. After you have rebuilt the engine, before the car has even ran, with new pistons and other weird stuff that you had to wait 6 months for because it was a foreign import that nobody has heard of but is recommended by someone on a TV chat show that geeks out in cars......finally a new model is being advertised and so you put this one up for a quick sale and go to the showroom for an indepth preview of the only model they have for a demo......only joking, I knew a guy who actually did that.....I thought I'd have a rant about updating for the sake of updating........those screen shots got me going......what's wrong with the stock standard screenset with the pale green backround on the digital readouts....huh huh?

[@incubatork]

Very Nice looking screen set but when I try to load it I'm missing the Reset/stop button, its off screen at the bottom(no scroll) and it does not matter how I try to change size or move it I cannot get it to apear full screen with everything in sight. I'm using 1920x1080 full HD, using a non touch screen. any ideas?

[@jacoweber8353]

looks great when are you re doing the plasma screen great job

[@TheCommo81]

So I followed your example and started at bottom left, clicked on the corner and the machine moved to the left a little then stopped and a message says: Manually return to starting position and repeat the search. It just keeps doing this. It doesn't travel down then move right to find the part. What am I doing wrong?