Mach MAD (Maintenance And Diagnostics) Plug in

[PoppaBear10]

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/ind...3.new.html#new

Special Features:
Mach MAD is a Real Time Monitor and Diagnostic tool, targeted
at the OEM manufacturer, Retrofitter, Service, Mach Screen Designer, or Mach Customizer. With it its 7 Non-Modal screens you can look at, Change or Press any: OEM button, OEM/User LED, OEM/User DRO, Serial Modbus Local Variable, TCP Modbus Local Variable, Read all the Smart Labels, Read/Set all the User Labels and Tickers. Choices are from drop down windows, there is a “Quick Pick” page that has listings for Buttons, DROs, LEDs and it has a “MDI” line for sending code to Mach3. The other pages are Object specific dedicated pages: Buttons, DROs, LEDs, Serial MB, TCP MB, Labels/Tickers. All 7 of the Non-Modal windows can be resized, minimized, and since they are modeless you can do things on your Mach screen while watching the results on the Mach MAD screen, and vice versa. Note: you cannot change Mach OEM Read-only DROs/LEDs.
You can also Pick a UserLED to show the Mach MAD dialog from Mach’s screen.

Other plug-ins available: http://www.machsupport.com/forum/ind...3.new.html#new
6 Axis Modbus (Serial or TCP) Jog plus available Independent Axis jog speeds, Analog, and Jog functions Plug-in.
2). 6 Axis Version of above but for Standard Parallel Port(s), including Po-Keys.
3). Extra Spindles (up to 3), controlled over the Modbus for doing Live Tooling,
Drop Spindles and/or multi head machines with different simultaneous spindle rpm needs. Others available for custom jobs.

[PoppaBear10]

Greetings,

I made a "Stock OEM" Mach Mill screen set that has a "Mach MAD" button and LED next to it, to control the appearance and disappearence of the MAD Windows.
I put the Button/LED at the lower Left under the "History" and "Clear" buttons. The Control LED next to it is UserLED 2220. You will need to put this number
in the Control LED box on the quick picks page, and hit the UPDATE button, also make sure the Radio button for "Use Control LED" is turned on. If you are using Version 1.3 from the installer that I sent out to everyone, then Mach will remember the state of the control LED/and User number next time you open it.

The Screen set is called: 1024MAD.set
NOTE: the button and led are on the "Park" page so they display on all screens.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/ind....html#msg65365

Reply #28

scott

[PoppaBear10]

New Features added..

Three more pages, that you can have UserLEDs to Trigger and control UserLabel messages (Dual state), Same for Tickers.

and best of all you can Trigger up to 15 Macros!!! that you can pick, or make!! from user LEDs so you can run them from External inputs or internal....

scott

[PoppaBear10]

Added MORE, to MAD it is now Version 3.0

I added the ability that if you are using High End Axis and/or a Servo Drives (programmable type), that give out a Status/error code number that you can access via Mod bus, you can have that code translated into its "String Equivelant" user message and scrol across a ticker, One ticker for each of the 6 axis and one for Spindle your choice, You can put in upto 10 Code Definition tickers and the corresponding message per axis!!

For instance, my 5 axis machine has Five 1kw AC servos and a VFD all hooked via 485 modbus to a PLC the PLC puts the Error/status code of each drive into a register (one for each axis), and sends that to mach. The plugin looks at that register and depending on the numeric code, puts out a Ticker message that the code represents for that drive.

scott

[PoppaBear10]

Added a VB scripter window to Mach MAD plugin.......

New version has been mailed out to all on the paid list.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/ind...,10463.30.html

scott