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 !
@@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
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
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.
@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'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.
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.
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"
@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.
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Unfortunately, not all functions are available with this beautiful appearance. For example, the offset, which is important to me because I often use several 0-points G54-G55- etc
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 😅
UCCNC my man. I ran Mach3 for years and got those once a week issues. UCCNC goes for months without issues, and it is still being developed. So instead if building screensets for software that is clearly flawed in multiple ways you could land on something modern and still evolving.
Hi, I can't get the Center probing buttons works, all the buttons under the "Center" section giving the same errors, please help, Mach3 Version R3.043.066 Thu - 22:00:31 ---Error! Probe tripped during X movement Thu - 22:00:32 ---Return to the search position is interrupted
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 😁😁
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.
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?
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
Sorry to be sadistic, but my only hope is that you also become frustrated with Mach3 and end up going with LCNC, then develop this same wonderful touch screen interface for it. HA!
Well, as much of an eldritch nightmare as Mach 3 is, it definitely requires similar levels of masochism to get LCNC into even a baseline useable state :D.
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?
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!
Looks good man. The only things that makes my OCD freak is that you call it "single line".. in gcode each line is called a block therefor it's called "single block" also I would highly recommend adding "optional stop" and "block skip"
It would be great if you could make a new video demonstrating how you measure tool height and zero the tools using your template/theme and the remote zeroing tool.
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 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
Nice work, but as a fellow UI guy, I noticed that the section that contains "Probe Active" and "Dwelling" and "Constant Velocity" appears to just be a display of status, either the probe is active or it isn't, for example. But the other (identical) 'buttons' above and below, such as Jogging and Set Tool Height appear to be action buttons rather than displays of status. This is very confusing to the operator -- what is clickable / actionable vs. what is simply displaying a state or status? I found I had this same confusion lower in the UI, with Speed and Tool for example. I think you should be very consistent in terms of visual cues regarding what is a button that can be pressed or manipulated by the user, vs. simply a display of status. My .02 cents
This is some really good work, definitely taking removing a lot of the eyesore of using Mach 3! I've been in the early preparations for building a physical control panel with a matching Mach 3 screen set and here's some unsorted observations and input from watching this video as well as relevant parts from my own notes in anticipation of a project like this: Absolutely have separate buttons for go to XY0 and Z0 - and for the love of god put them at safe distances away from each other so you don't accidentally click one of them when you meant the other. Or anything else. I usually Z0 on the top of my part because it's more idiot proof so it's not so bad for me as it could otherwise be, but unintended movement is always bad! Along with these there should also be the conceptual opposite, "go to Safe Z", which I configure in Mach 3 to be at the top of spindle travel (max retract). If you didn't use this feature in Mach 3 then I highly recommend it, it makes sure the tool automatically retracts when you hit the stop button, among some other things. There's also a decent argument to be made for having a "go to tool change position" macro button that would go to a user configured coordinate so that you can reach the spindle on a gantry router. I would keep subtle, stylish but readable text on the icons to the left of play/pause/stop. Apart from rewind, none of those icons really are fantastically obvious and it doesn't hurt to have a clarification as well. The emergency stop button should say something more explicit or at least different than "stop", to make the distinction clear from the ordinary stop button. If a hard end-stop is triggered then that axis DRO can be highlighted in some appropriately angry color. There's lots of space available to the left of the location coordinates. I'd have a small (maybe 20% of the height of the field) slightly grayed out coordinate in each line at the bottom there, left aligned, showing machine coordinates when the work coordinates are normally shown in the large DRO and vice versa. Assuming Mach3 can handle displaying both of these at the same time - I'm very much not up to speed on the technical limitations. The XYZA ref and reference all buttons are usually only used once per day if even that - I think they should be much smaller (in width) than the XYZ zero buttons that you will use almost every setup. It's good to highlight their relative use frequency, lets you easier find the one you need visually and takes up less space. I'd probably make them dark like the other unobtrusive buttons as well, not the bright color of the zero buttons. You say on the resume from line, Mach 3 just starts running commands at that point - for me, Mach 3 has a window that pops up and it simulates the program up until that point and figures out where the tool is supposed to be so that it can restart at the correct point of the program. Is that not on this screenset? Since you moved the program min/max axis values to the main page, there's only one thing missing from the stock Toolpath page now - simulate program run. A button that runs the simulation and tells you estimated program run time would be very useful. If this then further could be coupled with current run time and calculate percentage number, estimated time remaining and estimated clock time at finish that would be exceptional. Personally I like a decluttered interface as much as possible, so I'd want a version without the jog buttons for non-touchscreen users. Same with the axis readouts and buttons - a separate version for XYZ, XYZA and XYZAB machines. I do realize this very quickly turns into a painful number of versions to keep in parity :D. Mach 3 (and most other controllers) actually has a huge amount of available fixture coordinates (work coordinate systems). The normal G54-G59 and then G59 P1 all the way up to G59 P254 are all available. G59 P1 through P6 are macros for G54-G59. I've never actually managed to make the hard limit override actually work in Mach 3, but if it does and you can, I think it belongs somewhere near the soft limits switch. Good for when you need to jog the machine off a limit switch and you don't want to power it down and move it by hand. I'd like another spindle DRO next to actual/set RPM - us router users with the Huangyang VFD often use one of the plugins that communicate with it via serial, and that way we can also get the spindle current in ampere and show it on a custom DRO (with any configurable number). If this is possible/supported in Mach 3, I want to have more obvious readouts about the important modals than the string of mode gcodes. a button/light that reads RAPID/FEED for G0/G1 and ABS/REL for G90/G91 for example. Those are the ones I pay attention to most of the time but I'm sure there are more, like cutter compensation (G40/G41/G42 and G43/G44/G49) and machine coordinates (G53). Also if the machine is in a canned cycle like drilling, cause it can't be stopped, paused or interrupted by the normal buttons then. Hell, if possible just macro the stop button to also fire G80 (cancel canned cycle). Possibly G20/G21 too but I can't imagine many people who ever really switch unit systems and need to see it. For tool length probing, I'd love to see support for a somewhat common way to do it on routers where you don't have repeatable tool length for tool changes. You probe normally and zero Z with no tool length offset on your intended zero, then you change tool and the machine goes and touches a plate that's fixed to the machine at a known height, so it can measure the difference in length from the previous tool to the new one and use that for the offset. I didn't dig too hard into this, but our machine is originally a kit, and while ours is wired to use the probe pin for a conductive touch plate, I do think the instructions mention that you can save a pin by using one of the Z end stop or home switch pins for probing instead. I don't know how this would be handled in the macro or anything like that, but might be worth looking into for saving that pin config swap!
I'm also recommending you LinuxCNC here. Because you have not been told enough times. Maybe the Linux part of it seems daunting... Worry not! There isn't much OS fiddling once it's installed
Hey PA! This video just scratched the surface of the probing section. To me that one of, if not the largest, part of your screen design. Would you do a follow-up with an in-depth look at the probing and how it's setup? I've picked up you set and switched to it but it seems like none of the routines work correctly.
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!
I have been using MachStdMill from Calypso for 8-9 years now and I willing paid for it because the base UI for Mach3 is just horrible. It has a very extensive probing feature set, which I have never used. But it has some took height setting automation which makes it really nice for me. Its pretty touch screen friendly and he has screen variants for 1024x768 and 1280x1024.
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.
Hi, is there a easy way to adapt to HD screens? my current setup is running and old 1280x720p LCD panel, and the mach3 interface does not seems to scale accordingly to the screen size. So i'm trying to unravel the mysteries behind mach3 interface design. Thanks
@@iSuperMC there is a option in the configuration window that scales the UI to the screen size, it's not perfect but gets the job done (you have to restart Mach 3 in order to apply this change).
I know, I haven't been doing CNC for a while, so I missed the time when you were active. Unfortunately the link to the probing macros has gone stale. Can you somehow repost a working link, please? Otherwise, I really love the setup. I searched for a long time about a good screen. Your's the best.
o windows 10 já permite instalar aplicativos do linux. o win12 vai ser melhor o futuro os programas de uns dão para outros como mac linux win. kalinux etc.
Dont know how to do it on youtube but shoot me a mail and Ill gladly oblige. Exactly the same screen just added DRO's for tool change position and buttons with scripts to work with non repeatable tools.
@@noedger hi, if possible I would like to give your modified screen a try I currently use the 2010 screenset but would love this screen set with the tool change extras. I have sent you an email. Thanks Simon.
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.
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.
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!!!
Hi i'm new to all this cnc. I have just bought one on ebay to make cabinets. I managed to get the machine together which is a homemade one. I got mach 3 which is so daunting when you open it. I have not got a clue where to start setting it up but would like your new screen. How can i get it and can you do a video on setting up a 8 x4 machine. Thank you Darren.
If the corner finder works, but the round center function does not, is there a known fix? I get a "Manually return to the starting position and repeat the search" error
After a couple hours of trying, i was able to make it work. The round part had a protrusion in the middle, which the probe would hit. I had to get the travel distance x,y,&z correct so it would clear and look at the appropriate distance. Its not a set and forget function.
@@95GTSpeedDemon if you go through the documentation in the vers.by site it explains it. or you can go through the code in the edit button option. But i had the same problem too at one point and it had to do with the edge length and xy clearance values if i remember right.
The guided tour is nice, but I would like to follow along on my own screen. So I would have preferred download & install instructions nearer the start. YMMV
Hey hello, congratulations for your very functional screen, nice look and very practical... In France we use millimeters, how will it be with your screen for feed rates...etc?
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 :-)
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.
I've been using Mach 3 for 15+ years. It was ugly even back in the beginning. I have often wondered why the Stop, Pause, and Start buttons weren't ordered like a traffic light - Red, Yellow, Green from top to bottom. We've been using those for decades and it's ingrained in our brains so is more intuitive.
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.
This is why User interfaces should be designed by UI engineers who knows what the UI is for. Hats off to your 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
That is one beautiful interface! I think it was worth the effort to translate it.
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.
@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!
Awesome work! We would need your design skills in the LinuxCNC world, great job!
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.
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.
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"
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.
@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 ..
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?
My friend, you were absolutely brilliant in this creation, congratulations!
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.
Thanks for this, I am using your screenset with some of my own modes Your screenset is the best looking that I have seen
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.
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
Nice work ! I think I will give it a try. Noticed a typo on the probe screen ‘work peice’ should be ‘work piece’.
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.
Brilliant.. I wasn't ready to go back in time just yet!
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.
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.
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.
It’s about time! Mach3 always looked like windows 3.1 to me. Great work!!
This screens gave me another reason to stay on Mach3. Nice job!
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.
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.
Unfortunately, not all functions are available with this beautiful appearance. For example, the offset, which is important to me because I often use several 0-points G54-G55- etc
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....
Very good work, like the logic of the layout. Will test it later when my upgrade of my CNC is completed…
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 😅
UCCNC my man. I ran Mach3 for years and got those once a week issues. UCCNC goes for months without issues, and it is still being developed. So instead if building screensets for software that is clearly flawed in multiple ways you could land on something modern and still evolving.
will you do it for mach 4 also? please!! 🥺
Hi, I can't get the Center probing buttons works, all the buttons under the "Center" section giving the same errors, please help, Mach3 Version R3.043.066
Thu - 22:00:31 ---Error! Probe tripped during X movement
Thu - 22:00:32 ---Return to the search position is interrupted
Hello I have the same problem have you them answers.
Dominique
I'm not sure if he mentioned or not, but in the probing tab, it says "Work Peice", when it should be "Work Piece" :)
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 😁😁
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!!
Honestly I was thought you two brothers are both mechanical/electrical engineers?!
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.
Awesome! Any thoughts on making one for plasma?
would love to see this for plasma!
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?
Very good job, very useful and user friendly. Continue the good work and keep updating
Fantastic, many thanks for your screen set and videos
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
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
FYI tap then immediately tap and hold on a touchscreen is same as click and hold.
to start with just thought you were winging but the end result is very useful thanks will try it
Sorry to be sadistic, but my only hope is that you also become frustrated with Mach3 and end up going with LCNC, then develop this same wonderful touch screen interface for it. HA!
Well, as much of an eldritch nightmare as Mach 3 is, it definitely requires similar levels of masochism to get LCNC into even a baseline useable state :D.
@@johanstrom8473 LCNC def. has a learning curve, but once you know it, it doesn't shit on your parade repeatedly.
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?
Just downloaded it and wil be putting it on my machine. Thanks!
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!
Looks good man. The only things that makes my OCD freak is that you call it "single line".. in gcode each line is called a block therefor it's called "single block" also I would highly recommend adding "optional stop" and "block skip"
The probe, with the original screen works!
It would be great if you could make a new video demonstrating how you measure tool height and zero the tools using your template/theme and the remote zeroing tool.
Definitely using this! Thank you for putting in the time to make it!!
Oh man! This shifted me choice towards mach3!
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
Great and informative video, but I wonder if it changes the settings on the machine so that I have to set it up again
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
Use MOUSEUP actions vs MOUSEDOWN -- to take action on the release (similarly KEY-UP vs KEY-DOWN... depending on button)
Nice work, but as a fellow UI guy, I noticed that the section that contains "Probe Active" and "Dwelling" and "Constant Velocity" appears to just be a display of status, either the probe is active or it isn't, for example. But the other (identical) 'buttons' above and below, such as Jogging and Set Tool Height appear to be action buttons rather than displays of status. This is very confusing to the operator -- what is clickable / actionable vs. what is simply displaying a state or status? I found I had this same confusion lower in the UI, with Speed and Tool for example. I think you should be very consistent in terms of visual cues regarding what is a button that can be pressed or manipulated by the user, vs. simply a display of status. My .02 cents
This is some really good work, definitely taking removing a lot of the eyesore of using Mach 3! I've been in the early preparations for building a physical control panel with a matching Mach 3 screen set and here's some unsorted observations and input from watching this video as well as relevant parts from my own notes in anticipation of a project like this:
Absolutely have separate buttons for go to XY0 and Z0 - and for the love of god put them at safe distances away from each other so you don't accidentally click one of them when you meant the other. Or anything else. I usually Z0 on the top of my part because it's more idiot proof so it's not so bad for me as it could otherwise be, but unintended movement is always bad! Along with these there should also be the conceptual opposite, "go to Safe Z", which I configure in Mach 3 to be at the top of spindle travel (max retract). If you didn't use this feature in Mach 3 then I highly recommend it, it makes sure the tool automatically retracts when you hit the stop button, among some other things. There's also a decent argument to be made for having a "go to tool change position" macro button that would go to a user configured coordinate so that you can reach the spindle on a gantry router.
I would keep subtle, stylish but readable text on the icons to the left of play/pause/stop. Apart from rewind, none of those icons really are fantastically obvious and it doesn't hurt to have a clarification as well.
The emergency stop button should say something more explicit or at least different than "stop", to make the distinction clear from the ordinary stop button.
If a hard end-stop is triggered then that axis DRO can be highlighted in some appropriately angry color.
There's lots of space available to the left of the location coordinates. I'd have a small (maybe 20% of the height of the field) slightly grayed out coordinate in each line at the bottom there, left aligned, showing machine coordinates when the work coordinates are normally shown in the large DRO and vice versa. Assuming Mach3 can handle displaying both of these at the same time - I'm very much not up to speed on the technical limitations.
The XYZA ref and reference all buttons are usually only used once per day if even that - I think they should be much smaller (in width) than the XYZ zero buttons that you will use almost every setup. It's good to highlight their relative use frequency, lets you easier find the one you need visually and takes up less space. I'd probably make them dark like the other unobtrusive buttons as well, not the bright color of the zero buttons.
You say on the resume from line, Mach 3 just starts running commands at that point - for me, Mach 3 has a window that pops up and it simulates the program up until that point and figures out where the tool is supposed to be so that it can restart at the correct point of the program. Is that not on this screenset?
Since you moved the program min/max axis values to the main page, there's only one thing missing from the stock Toolpath page now - simulate program run. A button that runs the simulation and tells you estimated program run time would be very useful. If this then further could be coupled with current run time and calculate percentage number, estimated time remaining and estimated clock time at finish that would be exceptional.
Personally I like a decluttered interface as much as possible, so I'd want a version without the jog buttons for non-touchscreen users. Same with the axis readouts and buttons - a separate version for XYZ, XYZA and XYZAB machines. I do realize this very quickly turns into a painful number of versions to keep in parity :D.
Mach 3 (and most other controllers) actually has a huge amount of available fixture coordinates (work coordinate systems). The normal G54-G59 and then G59 P1 all the way up to G59 P254 are all available. G59 P1 through P6 are macros for G54-G59.
I've never actually managed to make the hard limit override actually work in Mach 3, but if it does and you can, I think it belongs somewhere near the soft limits switch. Good for when you need to jog the machine off a limit switch and you don't want to power it down and move it by hand.
I'd like another spindle DRO next to actual/set RPM - us router users with the Huangyang VFD often use one of the plugins that communicate with it via serial, and that way we can also get the spindle current in ampere and show it on a custom DRO (with any configurable number).
If this is possible/supported in Mach 3, I want to have more obvious readouts about the important modals than the string of mode gcodes. a button/light that reads RAPID/FEED for G0/G1 and ABS/REL for G90/G91 for example. Those are the ones I pay attention to most of the time but I'm sure there are more, like cutter compensation (G40/G41/G42 and G43/G44/G49) and machine coordinates (G53). Also if the machine is in a canned cycle like drilling, cause it can't be stopped, paused or interrupted by the normal buttons then. Hell, if possible just macro the stop button to also fire G80 (cancel canned cycle). Possibly G20/G21 too but I can't imagine many people who ever really switch unit systems and need to see it.
For tool length probing, I'd love to see support for a somewhat common way to do it on routers where you don't have repeatable tool length for tool changes. You probe normally and zero Z with no tool length offset on your intended zero, then you change tool and the machine goes and touches a plate that's fixed to the machine at a known height, so it can measure the difference in length from the previous tool to the new one and use that for the offset.
I didn't dig too hard into this, but our machine is originally a kit, and while ours is wired to use the probe pin for a conductive touch plate, I do think the instructions mention that you can save a pin by using one of the Z end stop or home switch pins for probing instead.
I don't know how this would be handled in the macro or anything like that, but might be worth looking into for saving that pin config swap!
Keep looking. Mach3 can use probe and a touch plate on the same input.
I just don’t remember how I did it. Sorry.
I’m at out there.
Thank you for making this much needed UI 3>
I'm also recommending you LinuxCNC here. Because you have not been told enough times. Maybe the Linux part of it seems daunting... Worry not! There isn't much OS fiddling once it's installed
Hey PA! This video just scratched the surface of the probing section. To me that one of, if not the largest, part of your screen design. Would you do a follow-up with an in-depth look at the probing and how it's setup? I've picked up you set and switched to it but it seems like none of the routines work correctly.
Fantastic. Looking forward to use this!!
Yo digging your work!! please add "Limit override" button, once you hit a limit switch cnc machine is stuck without an override.
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 and UI. I tried to download the PA screenset but it doesn't work.
I’m sorry to say it doesn’t work for me either, pity it looks fantastic
hello on the screen you can add the 6 axis display
I have been using MachStdMill from Calypso for 8-9 years now and I willing paid for it because the base UI for Mach3 is just horrible. It has a very extensive probing feature set, which I have never used. But it has some took height setting automation which makes it really nice for me. Its pretty touch screen friendly and he has screen variants for 1024x768 and 1280x1024.
For some reason the download isn't working. Mind checking it, I would love to do some testing with this. It looks awesome!
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.
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.
Hi, is there a easy way to adapt to HD screens? my current setup is running and old 1280x720p LCD panel, and the mach3 interface does not seems to scale accordingly to the screen size. So i'm trying to unravel the mysteries behind mach3 interface design. Thanks
Did you find a solution, I’m having this problem too
@@iSuperMC there is a option in the configuration window that scales the UI to the screen size, it's not perfect but gets the job done (you have to restart Mach 3 in order to apply this change).
I know, I haven't been doing CNC for a while, so I missed the time when you were active. Unfortunately the link to the probing macros has gone stale. Can you somehow repost a working link, please?
Otherwise, I really love the setup. I searched for a long time about a good screen. Your's the best.
Try this for Z0 G0 G91 G28 Z0 before machine moves to where you want it to move next. I haven't tried it in MACH3. It works on Fanuc , HAAS, and Fadal
Nice screen, good tutorial and well done.
Now, seeing the comments, I am waiting for a LinuxCNC follow up from a person accustomed to Windows.
Windows guy here, started using Linuxcnc 2 weeks ago. It's a little frustrating to get it going, but once it's working, it's pretty awesome.
o windows 10 já permite instalar aplicativos do linux. o win12 vai ser melhor o futuro os programas de uns dão para outros como mac linux win. kalinux etc.
Another windows guy here, switch a couple months ago from mach 3 to LinuxCNC and should have done it sooner. This screenset really looks awesome!
It's funny, it looks like we even have the same monitors, Iiyama. Only mine is in vertical orientation.
Have you thought about an auto tool height setting macro similar to the "2010 screen set" for those of us who don't have fixed height tooling?
Hi. I have altered the screen set for your request of non repeatable tools. If you are willing to beta test drop me a mail at custom2@vodamail.co.za.
Deon Gerber can you show us a screen grab?
Dont know how to do it on youtube but shoot me a mail and Ill gladly oblige. Exactly the same screen just added DRO's for tool change position and buttons with scripts to work with non repeatable tools.
@@noedger hi, if possible I would like to give your modified screen a try I currently use the 2010 screenset but would love this screen set with the tool change extras.
I have sent you an email.
Thanks Simon.
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.
When do you plan to make an enclosure? That's something I'd definitely be interested in watching you tackle!
If you use Normally open probes you can use the same port and not have to switch anything around.
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.
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!!!
Hi i'm new to all this cnc. I have just bought one on ebay to make cabinets. I managed to get the machine together which is a homemade one. I got mach 3 which is so daunting when you open it. I have not got a clue where to start setting it up but would like your new screen. How can i get it and can you do a video on setting up a 8 x4 machine. Thank you Darren.
If the corner finder works, but the round center function does not, is there a known fix? I get a "Manually return to the starting position and repeat the search" error
After a couple hours of trying, i was able to make it work. The round part had a protrusion in the middle, which the probe would hit. I had to get the travel distance x,y,&z correct so it would clear and look at the appropriate distance. Its not a set and forget function.
@@95GTSpeedDemon if you go through the documentation in the vers.by site it explains it. or you can go through the code in the edit button option. But i had the same problem too at one point and it had to do with the edge length and xy clearance values if i remember right.
The guided tour is nice, but I would like to follow along on my own screen. So I would have preferred download & install instructions nearer the start. YMMV
Thanks for share this screen set it works perfect for my monitor and look awesome.
Hey hello, congratulations for your very functional screen, nice look and very practical...
In France we use millimeters, how will it be with your screen for feed rates...etc?
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 :-)
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!
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've been using Mach 3 for 15+ years. It was ugly even back in the beginning.
I have often wondered why the Stop, Pause, and Start buttons weren't ordered like a traffic light - Red, Yellow, Green from top to bottom. We've been using those for decades and it's ingrained in our brains so is more intuitive.