Owner`s manual

14 MaxMotion for Machines
machines supported by MaxMotion. Generally, these machines can be
categorized into two broad categories:
(1) Machines that can be upgraded to take advantage of the latest
features of MaxMotion and Windows environment. These are older
Dahlgren, Meistergram, Newing Hall, New Hermes, and other engrav-
ing machines. Detailed machine setup is already done for you ahead of
time. All you need to do is to make proper selection of the engraving
machine from the list. Although, it would still be a good idea to go
through the setup to become familiar with options available to you.
(2) You have developed your own machine and you are taking advan-
tage of MaxMotion as the controller. You do not need to develop a
hardware controller. However, you do need to spend time fine tuning
MaxMotion to get the best performance possible. Select My Machine
for Setup and go through Machine Setup options.
General Setup
General setup is divided into various sections. Select one at a time and
change the default numbers to proper numbers appropriate for your
system. The standard configuration of the parallel port for MaxMotion
Virtual Controller is defined in Appendix C. If any of the values are
changed in these SECTIONS, the values shall be SAVED. It is advis-
able to quit the MaxMotion application and launch again to be
absolutely sure that the new values have become effective.
Item 'ShowMachineSetup' is added in 'Global Values' section of .INI
file. If ShowMachineSetup=1 then machine setup shows all the
sections as usual, but if ShowMachineSetup=0, then all the sections
except Section III are made invisible to prevent a user from fooling
around with machine settings.
Section I
The resolution of each of the axis is defined in this section. The
resolutions are defined as either steps per inch or steps per millimeters.
The pin numbers for the axis corresponds to the pin numbers on the
parallel port. Even if you need to swap pins numbers to match your