Is there any help out there for getting me going? I have had my Masso G3 4.01 for quite a while now and I am sad to say I am totally lost! I am not a computer whizz. My experience with cnc is very limited. I have had a small amount of experience with Mach3 with a degree of success. Unfortunately, I lost my router mill in a fire. I am In the process of building a machine and chose Masso over the others because of its ease of use and support. This is not the case for me. The only support I have had come from Masso Videos, documentation, and forums. I have read listened so much and read so much I got myself totally confused. One step forward and 3 steps back. If there is anywhere I can get the simplest of help??? Masso support team doe not cover or handle my issues. Thanks to whoever can help!
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- Thread starter cosmos
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I have my preliminary setup of the machine done. I am using a Masso g3 4.01 5 axis controller. I am currently only using 3 axes on a simple router- mill for woodworking. I am able to jog the machine around and have Homing was is done. Happy so far. I set up my tool setter and it goes to where I want to do my manual tool change to be at. However, when I go to run a simple MDI command I get a light blinking on the DRO and the thing just sits there. I have worn my hearing and my eyeballs out trying to problem-solve issues so far. I saw something about giving the tool setter has some issues on the forum. In doc and forum, it says to run a simple g code to see if it works. Now I am stuck and frustrated. Is there anybody out there I could hire and be willing to help me out? One other thing I can not open a .htg file downloaded from masso. Thank You
evermech
evermech
@cosmos
what is the blinking light? Is it an alarm light or? Maybe a photo of the situation would be helpful. What is the Gcode you are entering into the mdi? Why do you need to open the HTG file or do you mean you are trying to load it onto your controller. Maybe you could post your settings file also.
Guy
what is the blinking light? Is it an alarm light or? Maybe a photo of the situation would be helpful. What is the Gcode you are entering into the mdi? Why do you need to open the HTG file or do you mean you are trying to load it onto your controller. Maybe you could post your settings file also.
Guy
The situation has gotten better. I went back out to the machine and thought some more things through on my own with some positive results. I found out rebooting is a must when things don't work. The flashing lights were z and or file is x axes. I think this issue is resolved. I was actually able to load a small g- code with a tool change and it worked.
As far as my question on .htg file is just that. What would be in in a htg file from Masso? A fella wrote in with a post a while back and the moderator sent a ...Masso...htg file to look at. I tried to take a look at it for educational reasons and it won't open. Apparently this is something I need not worry about. I am sorry I can't remember the post exactly. That was several hours of reading ago.
Thanks Guy and BIG THANKS! to all the folks that post questions. Priceless
As far as my question on .htg file is just that. What would be in in a htg file from Masso? A fella wrote in with a post a while back and the moderator sent a ...Masso...htg file to look at. I tried to take a look at it for educational reasons and it won't open. Apparently this is something I need not worry about. I am sorry I can't remember the post exactly. That was several hours of reading ago.
Thanks Guy and BIG THANKS! to all the folks that post questions. Priceless
breezy
Moderator
@cosmos,
I have answered your question about HTG file from the support desk, but I just repeat it here.
HTG files are binary files for loading onto MASSO, there is no software available on PCs to read them.
When you next get flashing 'lights' on MASSO they will be either a warning or an error.
If it is the top light (normally READY) it will be red and say what caused the error, you will need to fix the cause and re-home the machine to clear the fault light.
If it is the bottom light (normally E-STOP) it will yellow and also say what caused the warning. Generally that is a soft limit error in the gcode. MASSO reads several lines ahead of where it is machining and calculates the next moves and if it encounters a move that will exceed the soft limits it will stop. That will require a edit of the gcode and a reload of the file and restart or jump to line start.
When a move command is issued on MDI that will violate a soft limit MASSO ignores the command.
To clear soft limit warnings you only need to issue a valid command in MDI.
Regards,
Arie.
I have answered your question about HTG file from the support desk, but I just repeat it here.
HTG files are binary files for loading onto MASSO, there is no software available on PCs to read them.
When you next get flashing 'lights' on MASSO they will be either a warning or an error.
If it is the top light (normally READY) it will be red and say what caused the error, you will need to fix the cause and re-home the machine to clear the fault light.
If it is the bottom light (normally E-STOP) it will yellow and also say what caused the warning. Generally that is a soft limit error in the gcode. MASSO reads several lines ahead of where it is machining and calculates the next moves and if it encounters a move that will exceed the soft limits it will stop. That will require a edit of the gcode and a reload of the file and restart or jump to line start.
When a move command is issued on MDI that will violate a soft limit MASSO ignores the command.
To clear soft limit warnings you only need to issue a valid command in MDI.
Regards,
Arie.