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Hi all, Apologies for my extended absence from the forum, time gets away too fast. I have had the spindle encoder on my lathe fail and want to run an idea past the brains trust. The spindle encoder is no longer outputting a z channel. I have tested all outputs on the board inside the encoder to elim...

That’s a good thought and I would have thought that restarting cnc12 and the acorn would have reset that but I just checked and unfortunately that does not seem to be the issue. I can cycle outputs 1-3 and 7-8 with M commands just fine

Apologies, I was not at the machine when I originally posted. Please find it attached.

Yes I have set output 5 to SPINFWD in the wizard and saved it, I have also rebooted both acorn and computer a few times

Hi all. I have recently upgraded my electrical cabinet on my lathe setup and now I can’t get the spindle outputs working. If I toggle the output in the diagnostic screen it works as it should and VFD runs as normal but I cannot get the output relay to trigger by using the manual spindle buttons, thr...

Just a quick tip I use. If the manual axis comes up M****.**** go to MDI page and type:- M26/M to reset the zero position for the axis. Occasionally the DRO will not read out when it opens. You can also write a macro for zeroing the manual axis to the index pulse, you will find that discussion and c...

With further development I have found the problem to be more sinister. The outputted path is not correct. The fusion model looks like this:- Fusion.PNG If I PP with generic centroid mill I get this toolpath which seems correct:- Centroid_mill.PNG If I use the mill/turn PP in the link I get:- Centroi...

Hi all. I was wondering if it is possible to allow you to write subroutines in intercon? I have manually edited the programs after posting to the controller and it works but it would be nice to be able to make a repeated routine in intercon, possibly after the "end program" line that you c...

Awesome, thanks for the link. Don't know why the search function did not show up that thread.....

Hi UWE, I am running your PP but I am getting sporadic full feed lines in the outputted code. It also seems to insert a random "Z safe height" before it has finished running the pocket. Capture3.PNG Everything in the fusion toolpath looks correct and I have tried with "always use high...