Rush job and CNC throwing a hissy fit.

[m_c]

And that is why I now avoid running Mach 3.

My lathe could work flawlessly for a couple months, then it would just do something totally random. Final straw involved a crash which knocked both the spindle and turret out alignment, and wiped out a couple drills in the process.
Since changing to KMotionCNC (Dynomotion's own CNC program for KFlops), the only issues have been operator induced.

[magicniner]

Apart from a PC failure requiring me to recover all my settings from backup I haven't had any issues with Mach3 in around 3 years.

- Nick

[JAZZCNC]

Mach's been running my machine Via Laptop for best part of 8yrs without trouble and it's had just about every Motion controller attached to it. Also untill just few months ago I was running a version that was from the stone age. Updated to solve Cslabs related issue.

However I do know people who have had trouble but often Mach is blamed when it's nothing to do with mach and it's PC related issue.

[alboy]

Well I have to admit that I have never had a problem with Mach3 till now and the 2010 screen set with auto tool height adjustment has been a real time saver. I am pretty sure that in this case the main protagonist was windows rather than Mach3 looks like it was a corrupt registry entry.

[Ger21]

Make a backup of your .xml file, and if you ever run into something strange again, try replacing the .xml first.