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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: MachLabs upcoming launch

« on: January 04, 2026, 00:11:17 am »

Just make sure its made by Warp 9 no matter who you buy it from.  That its not a knockoff.

P.S.  I've purchased from AVID and CNC4PC before.

Thanks Bob.

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: MachLabs upcoming launch

« on: January 02, 2026, 00:53:42 am »

I appreciate everyone's positive responses, thank you.

I see there are several brands of ESS out there, e.g. CNC4PC, AVIDCNC, POKEYS, etc., and they all run about $200 US.  Any favorites?

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: MachLabs upcoming launch

« on: December 31, 2025, 21:24:51 pm »

I also use Mach3 and it does the job nicely, the interface is through an ethernet SmoothStepper board.

For the small amount of cnc work I do these days there is no incentive to upgrade, especially at their "discount" rate.

Mach3 could possiby be made to look like the new version if that was desired.

Eddy, I didn't know Mach3 would work with the Ethernet SmoothStepper board, I thought it required Mach4.  Interesting.  Any tricks for doing this with Mach3?

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: MachLabs upcoming launch

« on: December 26, 2025, 21:31:41 pm »

Thanks, the two of you for responding.  I still use and like Mach3 (although I've not used it much lately).  I got an email from @machsupport.com, aka MachLabs, who bought the rights to Mach 4 and is touting a new improved release they are calling Mach Pro, which looks like Mach 4 to me with some "changes".  They were offering an undefined "discount" off their $500 price to upgrade.  Just wondered if anyone else had heard about this.  Too rich for my blood.

Here is their website:
https://www.mach-labs.com/

I never changed to Mach4 because my DIY CNC uses a parallel port BOB from CNC4PC, didn't like the new look and feel (and complexity) of Mach4, and wasn't needing to change to USB or Ethernet machine controllers.  Mach3 works great for my needs.

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CamBam help (General usage) / MachLabs upcoming launch

« on: December 24, 2025, 00:52:03 am »

Seasons Greetings folks!

Any thoughts on the "new" forthcoming MachLabs MachPro launch and how it compares to Mach3 (which I'm still on) and Mach4?

Thanks in advance.

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Whoa! NEAR Emergency!!!

« on: November 22, 2025, 01:31:19 am »

Many thanks David.

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Whoa! NEAR Emergency!!!

« on: October 15, 2025, 20:35:07 pm »

Is CV Mill Viewer free now?  Or is what I'm seeing for CV Mill 3.2 something different?

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: SUPER SLOW refresh times on the CB site

« on: October 15, 2025, 20:26:20 pm »

Though I can't be sure this is true for this instance of the CB site being slow, I've experienced similar super slow to unavailable issues with other forum sites I belong to that have attributed this to AI bots copying all data that can be scrubbed from their webservers.

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Bug Reports / Re: NumMove Plugin V 1.2.0.62 Bug with CB1.0 and Win11 Pro

« on: October 15, 2025, 19:55:30 pm »

dh42 and EddyCurrent, much appreciate the two of you looking into this.  Eddy thanks for confirming the ubiquitous Windows Ctrl-V paste method worked when pasting the measured value into a Draw Text/Edit Text window but not when pasting in the Numeric move text fields.

dh42, I'm not sure if I was ever aware that right-clicking in one of the Transform > Numeric move, Num move axis input boxes popped up a menu with this "Paste" option.

Now I know, many thanks.  And it works!

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Bug Reports / NumMove Plugin V 1.2.0.62 Bug with CB1.0 and Win11 Pro

« on: October 02, 2025, 04:20:31 am »

Hi folks, long time since I've posted on CB forum and apologize for not discussing a more positive topic.

I'm a more occasional user of CB1.0 these days, maybe 3 or 4 times a month.  This past  year I've encounter problems when taking a linear Measurement, expecting the measure value to be copied to the clip board and using the value with 'paste' in other value entry methods without problem.  Sometimes when I need to use a measured value copied and pasted into the NumMove plugin X,Y or Z value nothing gets pasted.  I have to manually type in the measured value.

Today, and as a safety measure I selected the numeric value and ctrl-C'd it, with the polygon object selected and using the NumMov plugin no 'copied' value would paste into the X or Y fields.

I'm sure this worked when I was on Win10 Pro and CB1.0.

I found several topics on a bug with the NumMove plugin on this forum that seemed to be identical to what I described above but it was an issue only in Win10 back in 2019 or so.

Any ideas why this happens?  Any solutions?

Many thanks.

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: CB 1.0 / Win10 Pro 64-bit mouse issue

« on: February 24, 2025, 19:32:31 pm »

While this forum was down I saw the reply from Bob about this issue on cnczone forum and he was right about the Snappy plugin, thanks and well spotted Bob.
I will attach a new version of the Snappy plugin to it's thread, it will change the cursor to a Cross when it's over a snap point.

With this forum being unavailable at times I posted my query for help on the CB section of CNCZone and got a prompt reply from Bob asking if I had the Snappy plugin installed.  (I never got any emails from the CB forum stating there were replies to my query here, oddly enough.)

But yes, I did recently install the Snappy plugin to my CB 1.0 a month or two ago when editing a .cb project that was several years old (a schematic diagram).  I installed the plugin and restarted CB as usual.  Snappy worked wonderfully and I hadn't bothered to check it settings.  It dutifully snapped to on and off grid nodes without hiding the cursor at snap when I needed to move a node during my first session with Snappy.  I loved it!

5-7 weeks passed and I pulled up the same file again to make more changes.  This is when I noticed the cursor disappearing when the mouse hovered over a polyline node point.  At times with the cursor hidden I could move the node to a new position, although it was somewhat of a challenge.  And about half the time, with the cursor hidden, I hadn't actually "snapped" to anything at all in the course of the node move attempt.

It was Bob's raising the Snappy issue that I looked at the Snappy plugin settings again and saw the check mark for "Hide cursor at snap".  I unchecked it and it the cursor stayed in view, as was my initial experience.

Eddy, thank you so much for all you do for us.  Changing the "at snap" cursor to a + sign is a good idea.

Lloyd, I have experienced weird erratic mouse movements under two conditions using Win10 Pro 22H2 and earlier.
1.  After changing to a wireless Logitech mouse when the battery gets too low, or the IR detector LED/lens was dirty (wired or wireless).
2.  Windows is bitchin' because it is past feeding time for a new KB update,  once the update was "eaten" and Windows restarted, all was well.

And thanks to all the rest of you who contribute on this forum!

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CamBam help (General usage) / CB 1.0 / Win10 Pro 64-bit mouse issue

« on: February 19, 2025, 21:02:51 pm »

I don't recall this happening before now, but then I'm older than ever before ;-).

Win 10 22H2 OS Build 19045.5487

Using an existing CB 1.0 file that is two years old, after double-clicking a polyline that has multiple nodes and hovering the mouse cursor over a node I want to move...the mouse cursor disappears.  If I have accurately positioned the mouse over the node before it disappears the moment the cursor pointer is over the node, and then left-click to move the node, the node does move, but there is a graphics rendering delay before it shows the node position changing.

CB Options for Graphics mode is Open GL as it has always been during my use since 0.9.8 and 1.0.

Since there have been several Windows updates in addition to installing Microsoft's Visual Studio Code with the PlatformIO plugin and all its JS requirements I am wondering whether this is related to the strange cursor behavior I am now seeing in CB 1.0.

BTW:  It does this regardless of Display Graphics Mode being Open GL or GDI.  Also, the latest .NET version is in effect that is much newer than V4.5 and most likely current.

Any ideas anyone?  Thanks in advance.

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Merry Christmas

« on: December 25, 2023, 02:00:24 am »

A Merry, Merry Christmas CB forum members!

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Number of "Drawn" objects in a CB 1.0 .cb file?

« on: May 18, 2023, 21:35:41 pm »

Also keep in mind that you copy the log window text to Windows' clipboard and then paste to a text file etc. using this plugin, http://www.atelier-des-fougeres.fr/Cambam/Aide/Plugins/MessageLogCopy.html

Thanks, and yes, this is what I wound up doing.  For me this is an extremely useful plugin since I use CB as a "general" technical drawing tool far more than I use it to generate machining operations for my CNC machine. 

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Number of "Drawn" objects in a CB 1.0 .cb file?

« on: May 17, 2023, 22:10:00 pm »

Right, Lloyd.  And that's what is great about CB and the CB family.