Latest MachStdMill Production Release: 2.0.6

[DaveCVI]

This thread contains MSM release announcements.
The announcements are ordered with the newest announcement last.

Here is the CVI MSM production release download web page:
www.calypsoventures.com/downloads/machstdmillrelease.html


Dave
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Hi,

MachStdMill v1.1.1 is now available for download as the release version.

My thanks to the beta testers which helped to make this release happen.

Files are available at the the download page of www.CalypsoVentures.com

MachStdMill v1.1 key enhancements:

1) Enhanced probing facilities:
Probing operation support has been significantly enhanced and now offers the most complete work setup probing features available for Mach.

Operation groups include:
• Edge, Surface and Corner finding (w edge angle measurement)
• Ridge & Valley center finding
• Circular and rectangular Pocket center finding
• Circular and rectangular Post center finding
• A and B axis rotational center finding and axis alignment

2) Auto-TLO and On-Machine Tool Measuring:
Advanced tool measuring support is included to do “on machine” measurement of tools, removing the need for expensive offline tool pre-setters.

Tools can be measured on the machine and TLOs are calculated and entered automatically into the tool table. TLO support includes all three documented TLO techniques (TLO=PTL, TLO=WCZ0 and Master Tool mode).

3) Tool Table Handling:
MSM Tool Table handling has been significantly enhanced.

A tool table saved by any MSM machine can be loaded on any MSM machine.
The distinction between tool table files created by an imperial (inch) setup units machine and a metric (mm) setup units machine has been removed.

Support was added for mixed units tool tables at the user interface.
Example: Tool diameters may be entered in the natural units of the tool, independent of the setup units of the machine.

4) All bug reports closed:
Release v1.0.2 proved to be very stable with few bugs. The few reported MSM bugs have been fixed for v1.1 and there are no open errata items as of v1.1’s release.

Dave

[DaveCVI]

I see that I've proven that Mr. Murphy's law is alive and well...

If you down loaded MSM 1.1.0 earlier today, please download v1.1.1.

A debug setting was accidentally left on in v1.1.0, it won't cause a problem during operation, but it does make MSM work harder than it needs to by creating debug logs as it runs which uses unnecessary CPU power and wastes disk space.

MSM 1.1.1 has the debug settings back to their normal release settings (If needed, they can be dynamically turned on to trace actions for bug reports).

Dave

[DaveCVI]

MachStdMill v1.1.2 has been released.

The major item in this release is a change to make MSM work (better) with the Mach 3.43.35 development release. Mach 3.43.35 has a partial fix for the Mach "Esc/stop don't stop scripts" bug.

However, mach 3.43.35 also has other issues.... you need to read the MSM release notes for MSM 1.1.2 and then decide if mach 3.43.22 or mach 3.43.35 is more appropriate for your needs.

There are also a couple of other minor things corrected in MSM 1.1.2 - see release notes.

Dave

[DaveCVI]

MachStdMill v1.1.3 has been released.

This corrects the problem with ATC scripts which appeared due to the change in Mach's GetCurrentTool() call as of Mach 3.43.35

There are also a couple of other minor things corrected in MSM 1.1.3 - see release notes.

Dave

[DaveCVI]

MachStdMill v1.1.4 has been released.

Only one change in this release: Corrected a bug relating to updating from v1.0.x to v1.1.x when running windows with non-US english regional settings.

Dave

[DaveCVI]

MachStdMill v1.1.5 has been released.

This is a minor bug fix release: Corrected a problem with the RPM DRO display due to a change in Mach 3.43.37.

Also did a minor update to the programmer's ref manual to better document the RPMOverride flag in Mach.

Dave

[DaveCVI]

MachStdMill v1.1.6 has been released.

This is a minor bug fix release: Corrected the problem that could cause MSM to look for a odd Mach version (ex: 16.29.16)

Dave

[DaveCVI]

Hi,
MSM 1.17 has been released.
This update adds user script hooks to M3, M4 & M5.
See release notes and section 14.9.1.1.2 of the updated user manual.

Dave

[DaveCVI]

Hi,
MSM 1.1.9 has been posted.

This is the 1.1.8.dx beta series released as a production release.

We recommend that users update to MSM 1.1.9.
Among other things, it includes the fix for the "non-US windows license date" bug.

Dave

P.S. in case anyone is wondering, the 1.1.8 series was released only as beta versions.

[DaveCVI]

Hi,
MSM 1.1.10 has been posted.

One minor bug fix in proxy activation.
User Manual improvements:
Added a tutorial getting started with Probing
Added a short glossary of abbreviations

Dave

[DaveCVI]

Hi,
MSM 1.1.11 has been posted.

One bug fix in this release:
Corrected bug that causes an incorrect back of amount between 1st and 2nd probe of a double probe when doing the Special TCP TP set up sequence.

Dave

[DaveCVI]

MachStdMill v1.1.16 has been released.

Key changes since v1.1.11 include:

Bug fixes:
- Attempts to use ATLO option for Tool 0 no longer reset Mach.
- In master Tool Mode, TLO's for tools could become when MT=PT.

MTM users should update to this release and recalibrate the TCP TP location.

Enhancements:
- Added User extension hooks to M6Start and M6End.
- Various enhancements and corrections to documentation.

As usual, for details please see the release notes.

Dave

[DaveCVI]

Hi,
MachStdMill v1.1.17 has been posted.

Highlights of this release are:
1) This release fixes the bug introduced in v1.1.16 by the switch of Mach DROs used to set WC Offsets. This was responsible for the MT mode (Not when MT = probe tool) offset error when setting Z0 with the master tool. The code was reverted back to use the prior Mach DRO set to avoid the internal Mach issue which caused the problem.

As a side effect of this required change, the DROS on the WC Offset page for the WC position column are now consistently the non-multi mode WC DRO set.

2) MSM always stored the TCP in machine coordinates. I recently learned that mach changes the units of machine coordinates DROs when G20/G21 is used.... (rather baffling as it makes little for a machine coordinate to be in any unit other than the setup units for the machine).
This could create a situation where the TCP coordinates used for a tool change were not in the same units as the current unit state of the machine. MSM now stores the TCP in native setup units and converts on the fly to current GCode mode units so that the TCP position coordinates used will always be the same units as the current units mode.


As usual more details are in the release notes.

Dave

[DaveCVI]

Hi,
MSM Production release 1.1.18 is available.

Highlights:
Probing with the 3D probe is now allowed when the gage block is set to be a mobile Touch plate.
Adds protection to prevent MSM from invoking a G31 from mach when the probe is already triggered (which avoids a Mach bug that causes an infinite motion loop).

See release notes and user manual update for more information.

Dave

[DaveCVI]

Hi, MSM 1.1.20 has been released.

This is release incorporates a few bug fixes:

• If MSM installed on a drive other than C: there could be an error when opening some MSM config log files.

• The MSM installer had an option turned on that marked mach3.exe file as having been installed by the MSM installer. This causes MSM 1.1.18 to delete mach3.exe when it is uninstalled.
This is fixed in MSM 1.1.20. upgrading from 1.1.18 to 1.1.20 will fix the problem. However, any direct uninstall of 1.1.18 will end up deleting the mach3.exe file.

The recovery solution is to re-run the mach installer to get the mach3.exe file back.

• Restructured Alpha & Beta release load logic -
Alpha and beta releases now expire X days after their release date.
This is intended to prevent alpha & beta releases from hanging around and causing ongoing support issues.

The expiration period for alpha and beta release is subject to change, the current settings are 30 days for Alpha and 60 days for Beta.

This is considered plenty of time for a development release to be run and CVI has always moved applicable changes to a production release in less than 60 days.

Alpha releases will not run in trial mode – an activated MSM system is required to run an Alpha release (potential customers for MSM should not be evaluating Alpha releases as they are by definition unstable)

Beta releases can be run in trial mode (in case a potential MSM customer desires to check out a particular feature or verify that a particular bug has been fixed).

There is no change to Production releases, they continue to work forever without any time out.

• Added close & load gcode buttons to 12x9 mill run page

• Changed teach button to load teach file when it’s closed (so you can see what you’ve “taught”).

See the MSM release notes for other changes.

Dave