RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] 2 Axis Motion at Last, Plasma machine

>This should work. Do you have 2 parallel ports? generally, you need this
>for steppermod and freqmod. The step pulses come from one parallel
>port, and the auxilliary I/O (spindle, coolant, etc.) comes from the
>other.

>You have to specify different parallel port addresses for the two ports
>in the .ini file.

>I just found out that the M03 command won't start the spindle unless there
>is an S word (ie. S1000) in the same block. Try the F9 and F10 keys also.

Do these

>keys cause the screen display to show spindle running?

>Jon

Jon,

No, I do not have the second parallel port yet. I have tried several old ISA
IO cards but none seem to work on my system. What I did was change the
address for the on board parallel port to match the IO port set in the ini
file just to see if the IO stuff would work. Using IO_Show I can see INDEX
10 switch with the e-stop but can't get other bits to switch with the
spindle, coolant, mist etc.

The screen display does show the spindle running. I got the part about
specifying an S word to go with the M03.

Thanks,
Terry