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    I have a Gate turret mill with Anilam Servos and amps with a retrofit CSMIO /IPA CNC controller (Anilam brain dead hence retrofit) and am using Mach3 currently with a Big Tex screen set as I need to be able to change tools on the fly. All is not entirely well with Tex is there a better alternative to Big Tex.

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    Two popular choices are the "2010 screen set" from Gerry/ger21, and the machstdmill screen set from Calypso Ventures. I know people who use both very happily, although I personally use the standard Mach3 offering with some slight tweaks of my own. A google search will find both of the ones I've named. Can't help with whether or not they help with tool-changing - I've found the standard features of Mach3 sufficient but I'm not using a professional machine.

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    2010 from Ger. I'm using this now and I should have changed to it years ago.

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    I'm using Hoss's screenset, perfect for what I do, and lots of youtube videos on how to set it up/tweak it.

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    Personally, Ger21's Mach2010 is the better of the commercial ones.

    The hoops you have to jump through with MachSTD to get it installed and the fact that it is not 100% compatible with the CSMIO killed that one for me years ago....and I dont even use CSMIO products hehe
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  9. I also use Ger21's Mach2010 screen-set, I personally find it to be the best one to use.
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    Is it feasible to load a couple of screen sets without inter-corruption, I have a suspicion that my Big Tex installation has been corrupted by a previous screen set e.g. M6 overrides the tool change position and reverts to a location I had set for a previous screen set?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mad Professor View Post
    I also use Ger21's Mach2010 screen-set, I personally find it to be the best one to use.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kirby43a View Post
    Is it feasible to load a couple of screen sets without inter-corruption, I have a suspicion that my Big Tex installation has been corrupted by a previous screen set e.g. M6 overrides the tool change position and reverts to a location I had set for a previous screen set?
    I don't think that changing a screenset will change other aspects of that profile. The macros are stored per-profile, i.e. typically per machine, so if you updated a macro in one profile, that change won't be seen in other profiles.

    However, there are a few odd things that can happen around M6 that aren't quite right if you are using a CSMIO-IP/M, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's not true for other CSMIO variants. For example, when I first started playing with tool height setting/resetting during an M6 tool change (i.e. between the calls to M6start and M6end), there were problems about losing X and Y position. The fix (in my case) was to "upgrade" to an earlier version of mach3. I'm currently using 3.043.028 which is not the latest version but can still be downloaded and installed. Remember to save any profile modifications in a custom machine profile and not mach3mill or any of the other out-of-the-box profiles or they will definitely be overwritten. The CSMIO compatibility thing is well-known and documented but you won't generally find it unless you go looking for it.

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    Enormous thanks!

    An explanation at last, maybe not the one I had hoped for but a clear understanding.
    What bothers me most, now, is losing all of my CSMIO-IP/M settings that have taken months to resolve. Which begs the question is it possible to run two versions of Mach on a single machine using an alternative profile name?

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