I'm trying to control a CNC mill with labview. Currently I'm controlling it using Mach3, which uses data pins 2, 4 and 8 for speed control and pins 3, 5 and 9 for direction control. Because I only want to control the Z-axis, I only need to concern myself with pin8 and pin 9 (direction).
To send pulses through the parallel port, I'm using the example VI "Parallel Port Read and Write Loop VI". When I control my CNC with Mach3 software, I see the status of the parallel port changing, so reading values from the parallel works ('In port.vi' is working)
Does this mean that 'Out port.vi' should be working as well? Because when I try to write a boolean value using the VI (for example: all data pins set to high), the values in Register data read all return a low value. What could be the problem here? Someone's got any idea?
I already found a VI which controls a stepper motor through the parallel port (which also uses the Out port.vi), but this is also unresponsive.
Btw I'm using windows XP and Labview 2010
