Mach 3 Has Never Looked This Good! (CNC Software Part 2) - S03E14
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 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:
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Mini PC - amzn.to/2ZcVy7j
Keyboard - amzn.to/3666LIn
Probe - www.ebay.com/itm/CNC-3AXIS-DI... 
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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 RUclips 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.
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.
Fantastic. Looking forward to use this!!
That is one beautiful interface! I think it was worth the effort to translate it.
My friend, you were absolutely brilliant in this creation, congratulations!
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
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.
Brilliant.. I wasn't ready to go back in time just yet!
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.
This is why User interfaces should be designed by UI engineers who knows what the UI is for. Hats off to your work!
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.
Very good work, like the logic of the layout. Will test it later when my upgrade of my CNC is completed…
Great minds... Thanks PA!
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.
Fantastic, many thanks for your screen set and videos
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?
This screens gave me another reason to stay on Mach3. Nice job!
Great Work!
Love to test this out!
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.
Sweet job!
Thanks for sharing!
Just downloaded it and wil be putting it on my machine. Thanks!
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 😁😁
Thank you for making this much needed UI 3>
Great work!
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
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.
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.
Very good job, very useful and user friendly. Continue the good work and keep updating
@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!
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
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!
It’s about time! Mach3 always looked like windows 3.1 to me. Great work!!
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!!
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.
great job! thank you for share it
thank you !
AWESOMENESSSS!!!! Thank you.
Thanks.
Thanks for share this screen set it works perfect for my monitor and look awesome.
Oh man! This shifted me choice towards mach3!
Amazing !
This is brillant work. Artsoft should purchase your screenset to make it default when you get Mach3.
Nice screen, good tutorial and well done.
to start with just thought you were winging but the end result is very useful thanks will try it
Definitely using this! Thank you for putting in the time to make it!!
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.
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.
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
good job man
Nice job, really nice! Thank you
Finally! Thank you.
Works great, Thank you 👍
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"
thank you so much for this screen
Great job. Going to try it, TY.
Well worth a donation. 👍👍
thanks a lot for this one!!
Love it
Thank you its quite good best one ive seen
thanks budy
Wao great video! Please continue posting more!
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.
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!!!
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.
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
Good video!
Good stuff!! 🤘🏽🙂
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.
The probe, with the original screen works!
Nice work ! I think I will give it a try. Noticed a typo on the probe screen ‘work peice’ should be ‘work piece’.
FYI tap then immediately tap and hold on a touchscreen is same as click and hold.
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
Mando benzão parça! Nice!
good job , i like it , you're awesome
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 :-)
Thank you so much for this screen refresh! Subbed just for that lol
👌🏻💥👍🏻
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 😅
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 was sent here by xtreme plasma all good stuff
Honestly I was thought you two brothers are both mechanical/electrical engineers?!
Awesome!! Thanks and keep up the good work!
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!
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.
Beautiful UI !! Unfortunately i cant use it until portrait mode is available. It would be great to see it on portrait mode.
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.
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
@@PhysicsAnonymous Awesome! I have been playing with MACH4, and I am pretty surprised how not good it actually is.
I'm not sure if he mentioned or not, but in the probing tab, it says "Work Peice", when it should be "Work Piece" :)
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?
Nice Screen set looks good compared to 1024.set, look forward to the next updates stay with it and make it great
Rober, hello im Gerrit from Holland. i hafe som problems with install te scheen set, i se not al bitmaps?? can you tel me ho to solf this problem.
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!
great video
can you give details of how to install the new screen set into mach3
When do you plan to make an enclosure? That's something I'd definitely be interested in watching you tackle!
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.
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?
hello on the screen you can add the 6 axis display
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?
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.
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
Hello Physics Anonymous.
I watched your video and I have a question, what motion controller are you using?
Use MOUSEUP actions vs MOUSEDOWN -- to take action on the release (similarly KEY-UP vs KEY-DOWN... depending on button)