!need Help CNC6040Z USB Limit switch wiring!

[Schematicsman]

Hi let's not get of on the wrong foot here .everything is all right
With my profile ..now please in future try to be more polite,ok I just wanted to try on my laptop, so I can learn how to set Mach 3 up for my machine and see how it goes then I will be using that info to set my desktop with Mach3 so if you or Edward wanted to help please by all means but choose appropriate words when writing to Schematicsman ok and there is no harm in trying, just had the laptop laying around,so lets start from the beginning. Here's a snapshot of my laptop showing diagnostics tab in mach3 now can you tell me if that looks good ***Sorry for the pic being side ways took a photo with my phone? then I would like to get help with what I was asking at the start of my post, top of page......?????

[magicniner]

Photo rotated with Windows viewer.

[Clive S]

Hi let's not get of on the wrong foot here .everything is all right
With my profile ..now please in future try to be more polite,ok I just wanted to try on my laptop, so I can learn how to set Mach 3 up for my machine and see how it goes then I will be using that info to set my desktop with Mach3 so if you or Edward wanted to help please by all means but choose appropriate words when writing to Schematicsman ok and there is no harm in trying, just had the laptop laying around,so lets start from the beginning. Here's a snapshot of my laptop showing diagnostics tab in mach3 now can you tell me if that looks good ***Sorry for the pic being side ways took a photo with my phone? then I would like to get help with what I was asking at the start of my post, top of page......?????

I am afraid that you will not get answers with an attitude like this. The only question I see in the above is you asking if the screen shot looks good and then you expect people to re read your posts to find out what and where the problem is without you bothering to find the post No. yourself.

I did send you some links to vids and the manual for Mach3 but you don't appear to want to help yourself.

I suggest that you read your thread from the beginning again and reevaluate what you have said.

[magicniner]

A quick Google Search with the board name yields this -

[Clive S]

A quick Google Search with the board name yields this -

Yes. but this has been addressed by John in post #17

[magicniner]

Yes. but this has been addressed by John in post #17

Clive,
You are entirely correct, I'm just trying to get the relevant info all in one short space.
Reading through I can't see where it is explicitly stated how the board is connected to the laptop.
Enabling the laptop's built in parallel port is mentioned, I assume from this that a fully wired parallel cable is being used to connect to the parallel port on the laptop as the USB to parallel cable mentioned in the manual will not work with Mach3 unless a hardware specific Plugin is installed and Mach3 would not then need a conventional parallel port to be present in order to work.

[Schematicsman]

So magicniner yes the cable is parallel to usb one end connected to JP board in black box and the other end usb to my laptop so how and where would I be able to download the cnc6040 xml plugin that is needed to get this machine working with Mach3????Please help because If I cant get it to work with my laptop usb connection, I doubt the desktop pc would even work with the same usb connection.

I tried connecting 2 limit switches in series Normally closed to the appropriate pins Clive mentioned and in the inputs tab and enabled X+ X- Y+ Y- and green ticks on Active Low and there was no response on the diagnostics page I even tried Automated setup of inputs and no response ever.So I dont know what to do nothing seems to want to work.But thank you and everyone for all their help.i continue to read the manual And hoping to get some function if I can:)

My laptop is a ::::
Dell D620 2Ghz processor
With serial db9 connection and no DB25 parallel connection ....on the back if that helps

[EddyCurrent]

Are we there yet ?

[magicniner]

So magicniner yes the cable is parallel to usb one end connected to JP board in black box and the other end usb to my laptop so how and where would I be able to download the cnc6040 xml plugin that is needed to get this machine working with Mach3????

With a Parallel to USB you are on a hiding-to-nothing, no one is yanking your chain, they don't work because Art Fennerty's brilliant MACH3 Parallel Port driver cannot access the hardware through USB to read and drive the individual pins as it can on a local hardware bus Parallal Port

Plugins are bits of software which integrate with MACH3 to support hardware, XML files are configuration files containing MACH3 settings to work with a given machine configuration, ideally you would need both but in setting up MACH3 manually yo create your own configuration which MACH3 stores as a transferable (and copy-able and back-up-able) file.

You can't simply find and download a plug-in, plug-ins are not generic, they are hardware specific and must be developed and supplied by the hardware manufacturer, if they don't supply one you can't get one.

If your laptop BIOS shows parallel port settings you may be able to find a docking station with an external connector (this is the case with my HP Compaq machines although I don't use them as controllers), if so disable all power saving options for everything in BIOS while you're there before trying it.

The point of using older or Industrial market desktop PCs is that they have Parallel Ports and a Parallel Port is your only way forward with MACH3 unless you buy an external USB or Ethernet Motion Controller that does come from the manufacturer with a functional Plug-In - read around the subject well prior to purchase of USB or Ethernet motion controllers, suppliers are not above selling Lemons and shining customers on about Vapourware fixes and updates that never materialise.

John Stevenson has a shelf full of NBG controllers that were supposed to be the dog's b's if you listened to the sellers but were SNAFU and never adequately supported.