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fix for this in v5.0 CNC12 in progress. thanks for reporting, guess not too many folks are using Intercon in 2 axis mode. :shock:


Hi Keith,

Just checking in. I haven’t been keeping an eye on release notes as well as I should, and I decided to wait to update until now. Has this fix been ...

hey guys, thanks for the suggestions, i am logging them.
at some point in 2023 we hope to start a complete rewrite of Intercon, all your suggestions will be part of that project! so keep them coming.


Kieth,

Thanks for being open to input. My suggestion is the addition of Intercon stick ...

fix for this in v5.0 CNC12 in progress. thanks for reporting, guess not too many folks are using Intercon in 2 axis mode. :shock:


This is great news. Thank you for fixing it for V5.

I’ve ran 2 and 3 axis Prototraks at work for years. They are great job shop machines. I wanted to create ...

please post a fresh report.zip and the offending intercon program, thanks, k


Keith,

Thanks for looking over my issue. Please see attached working program, non-working program, and report file. Also, I posted a screenshot of the error for reference.

Thanks again,
Chris
511 Missing Parameter ...

Good afternoon,

I have a 2 axis knee mill converted to Acorn. X and Y are powered, but the Z is operated by hand through the quill similar to a Prototrak. The Z axis (quill) has a glass scale that provides feedback on the controller.

When writing drill cycles in Intercon, the software outputs two ...

I know that this has been released, but I recently had trouble setting up the DB9 port to be used with a glass scale on a manual Z axis quill of a knee mill. I see that the manual has info on using this port for a spindle encoder, but nothing on a manual scale. Maybe I missed it?

If you’ve seen my ...

I attempted to change 310, and 311 to “5” with no luck. Luckily, I do think I figured it out.

From the main screen, I went to
F1 setup
F3 config
Password 137
F2 Mach.
F2 Motor

In the motors parameters screen, instead of assigning the encoder to axis 3, I assigned it to axis 5. I still need to ...

I have the DB9 pinned as shown in the acorn manual on page 45.

I went to the PID screen and the scale is reading on the fifth line down. This looks like good news, but how do I get it to read on the third line down with the “@“ symbol?

See photo

Sorry Marty, I’m not fully understanding the question. I’m using the DB9 connection on the acorn board to connect my z-axis scale as a manual read out.

I have re-pinned the encoder to correspond with requirements of the centroid Acorn and pinout for the DB nine

Thanks for the help everyone. I followed the technical bulletin that Marty provided. I feel that I’m on the right track, but I am not getting anything to display on the manual Z axis. It just remains at zero when you move the scale up and down. I did notice that the technical bulletin was not ...