Mach 3 Has Never Looked This Good! (CNC Software Part 2) - S03E14
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2020
- Check out our screen set for mach3!
Physics Anonymous Screen Set for Mach 3:
www.physanon.com/pa-mach-3-scr...
Probing Macros:
vers.by/en/
SwissU:
machsupport.com/downloads-updates/screensets/
CNC Hardware:
Monitor - amzn.to/3dSuG0u
Mini PC - amzn.to/2ZcVy7j
Keyboard - amzn.to/3666LIn
Probe - www.ebay.com/itm/CNC-3AXIS-DI... - Věda a technologie
I'm a professional CNC machinist, this is absolutely amazing UI to date, any plan of showing us how you go about designing this?
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 CZcams and there are a couple of tutorial. You do not need anything more. The software has quite some bugs but that how it is.
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 !
@@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 ?
@@amrmusa7217Both 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 :-)
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
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.
That is one beautiful interface! I think it was worth the effort to translate it.
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....
Thanks for this, I am using your screenset with some of my own modes Your screenset is the best looking that I have seen
Awesome work! We would need your design skills in the LinuxCNC world, great job!
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.
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.
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.
My friend, you were absolutely brilliant in this creation, congratulations!
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.
Very good work, like the logic of the layout. Will test it later when my upgrade of my CNC is completed…
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.
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
How do you adjust THC settings with that screen set?
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.
@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!
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!
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
how do you make mach3 automatically enable the output for the correct probe? Do you add a line of code to the probing macros?
@@SolarMillUSA I don't use mach 3
Very good job, very useful and user friendly. Continue the good work and keep updating
This is why User interfaces should be designed by UI engineers who knows what the UI is for. Hats off to your work!
Fantastic. Looking forward to use this!!
Fantastic, many thanks for your screen set and videos
This screens gave me another reason to stay on Mach3. Nice job!
Brilliant.. I wasn't ready to go back in time just yet!
I have always been way too lazy to do something like this. Thank you!!
I made a Siemens 840D clone skin and no matter what I did, it would never load the right resolution, so I gave up
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!!
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 😁😁
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.
Great Work!
Love to test this out!
This is brillant work. Artsoft should purchase your screenset to make it default when you get Mach3.
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.
Thanks for share this screen set it works perfect for my monitor and look awesome.
Sweet job!
Thanks for sharing!
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.
Nice screen, good tutorial and well done.
Just downloaded it and wil be putting it on my machine. Thanks!
Nice work ! I think I will give it a try. Noticed a typo on the probe screen ‘work peice’ should be ‘work piece’.
to start with just thought you were winging but the end result is very useful thanks will try it
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.
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
Great minds... Thanks PA!
It’s about time! Mach3 always looked like windows 3.1 to me. Great work!!
Thank you for making this much needed UI 3>
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.
Wao great video! Please continue posting more!
Very good. Thanks for sharing the screen set. I REALLY like it; and when I don't or get confused, I can temporarily switch back to the OEM Mach 3 screens. Note: On diagnostics page above eStop, coolant is spelled coolent. And what is Broche: near I can make out it is french for spindle, and it turns the spindle on and off on the Main screen. Also the 'speed' on diagnostics page (below ready/start/pause/tool change/speed) is 'dwell' which I use for allowing my spindle to spin up for 10 seconds before cutting immediately. Subscribed :-)
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.
great job! thank you for share it
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"
Oh man! This shifted me choice towards mach3!
Definitely using this! Thank you for putting in the time to make it!!
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.
Brilliant, thanks, I didn’t see the scale function, did you omit it? I know most people don’t need or want it and I often wondered why it was useful till I started Carving with a CNC router and realised it was useful for cutting half size test carves before cutting the full scale version.
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!
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
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!!!
Great work!
Thank you so much for this screen refresh! Subbed just for that lol
👌🏻💥👍🏻
Nice job, really nice! Thank you
Great job. Going to try it, TY.
Well worth a donation. 👍👍
When do you plan to make an enclosure? That's something I'd definitely be interested in watching you tackle!
I love it!, Not sure how its going to look on my old ELO 4:3 but im gonna give it a try.
not very good. obviously it is going to squish it but, I tried it on my 4:3 touch to see and I really like this screenset. Enough to just replace the monitor. Now I need to add my stuff back into this screenset. It is usable in 4:3 for sure. Just not as good looking as 16:9
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 😅
thank you so much for this screen
thanks a lot for this one!!
Love it
Very nice job, thanks for posting and sharing. I have an 1100M, this screen set reminds me of PathPilot which I love (but have no other experience to compare to other than not-so-great interface of the ShopBot and Shop Saber). Anyhoo, I'm setting up a cnc router which has an Avid CNC Nema 23 Plug n Play box, gonna try your screen set and hope it works with this controller. Do you rec any particular v of Mach 3 for use on an XP box?
Honestly I was thought you two brothers are both mechanical/electrical engineers?!
Thanks for the great content guys !
Bought a Tee shirt and subscribed.
Couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong when I couldn't get the Soft Limits in Mach4 to automatically run on start-up as I had successfully done it before in Mach4. Your first video in the series pointed out that this was a new bug in their software. Good grief ! Thought I was going crazy.
Really like the new interface and will discuss this with my Makerspace team as we just had a discussion tonight about standardizing our equipment on Mach4.
Would you mind sharing what Windows O/S you're running Mach3 on and also if you're using a parallel port to breakout board interface to the drivers ?
Thanks !
Jay
Finally! Thank you.
will you do it for mach 4 also? please!! 🥺
great video
can you give details of how to install the new screen set into mach3
THIS IS AMAZING!! thanks! so cool! great great great work! usually I don't subscribe to any channels, but you grabbed my attention , did not even looked other videos yet, just subscribed! just one question, why did you move from mach4 to mach3? isn't mach3 more buggy? I'm currently using mach3
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.
AWESOMENESSSS!!!! Thank you.
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
I'm not sure if he mentioned or not, but in the probing tab, it says "Work Peice", when it should be "Work Piece" :)
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.
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?
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.
@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.
yes metric would be great
@@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.
@@Ale_Lab would be great awsome
@@MrSjalvklart send me an email to rey8801@gmail.com, I will send you the zip file with everything. Being using it for 4 weeks now... It's a dream.
@@Ale_Lab done ..
Beautiful UI !! Unfortunately i cant use it until portrait mode is available. It would be great to see it on portrait mode.
Hello Physics Anonymous.
I watched your video and I have a question, what motion controller are you using?
Any idea how to access the Scale feature that was to the right of XYZ values in the old Mach3 UI? In the old UI, you could cut a design at 1.0 (100% scale default) but for example you could also cut a smaller (.5 would be 50% scale) or 150% for a larger cut using the same gcode. Thanks for your work on this amazing UI, just missing that feature. Much appreciated!
Hi, your screen looks great, thx for shareing it. I still have a question one feature doesn't work, full screen, what could be the issue? thx Tihamer
Great work boys, are you planning to do a simalar screenset for the lathe??
I would be greatly interested
Cheers from Holland
Thank you its quite good best one ive seen
Cordial saludo y excelente labor.
Existe algo asi para torno en Mach3 ó 4?
Gracias por compartir, por tu atención y por tu valiosa respuesta.
Hi - just found your video. It is soooo nice. Love the UI you made. So much more sensible. I have a question though. When I lode your UI in to Mach 3 it seams a little squized and small. Almost a bit pixilated. Is there a way to fix this?
? Is there any updates on the jog window, making it an actual 3d shaded object and tool path? Would be very cool in Mach to see this. A lot of the more newer machines have this, is there a way to incorporate this into your screenset?
Works great, Thank you 👍
You can create a brain to have input1 trigger the probe input. Work around for not having two probe inputs. I can't wait to try this screenset out!
I tried that, and had too many delay problems causing some inaccurate measurements. I may have been doing something wrong, or it could be a bad combo with my ESS controller.
Can a brain also be programmed to switch the probe pin number? Because that would be easy to add to the screenset
@@PhysicsAnonymous Hi Phy, how can i contact you? can you give me your email? i have a commercial proposal...thanks!
Hows it going ...your screenset looks great one of the best ones...I've typed using it but was unable to make it work...is there a location or a page to put in the location of the probe I have on the machine.
Hi, what a lovely looking screen thank you. I downloaded mine, set it all up and the screens are all not displaying properly. There is no real text visible, just a generally black screen with some greyed text and some partial layout. All the buttons work when they are clicked on, it is just I cannot actually see them. The bitmaps load perfectly when they are clicked on from within a finder window, just do not display correctly under Mach3. I cannot see anything editable within the Mach 3 program to change this. It is specific to Mach 3 and not my computer as I have opened two different instances on two different computers with the same outcome. Any brief suggestions would be very welcome please.
Good stuff!! 🤘🏽🙂
Yo digging your work!! please add "Limit override" button, once you hit a limit switch cnc machine is stuck without an override.
Very nice look! I would like to test it. What about manual tool change? Now i use 2010 screenset and there is macro which enable manual tool change. Every tool change program measure tool hight and calculate difference between tools.
Looks nice (and I don't even have a CNC). The OCD in me wonders though...is your Z axis movement widget not aligned to the top of your X/Y movement? It looks a little higher. :)
hello on the screen you can add the 6 axis display
Great and informative video, but I wonder if it changes the settings on the machine so that I have to set it up again
Wow, that is a beautiful interface. What tools did you use to build it?
Awesome! Any thoughts on making one for plasma?
would love to see this for plasma!