Tutorial SMC3 Arduino 3DOF Motor Driver and Windows Utilities

Hi Noorbeast. I am again... I was reading, and I think my problems with sabertooth, motomonster and Ibt cards, are how to set the modes 1, 2 or 3 in the arduino sketch. (SMC3_packet_serial_beta8_softstart)

I just need "Set to MODE3 for a Sabretooth setup in simple serial mode". Tell me how, please. I am a newbie, but not ineffective... he,he,he.

I am so happy with it, that I have to say, "I am proud of me". I got it.. Sorry guys. I spent 2 weeks trying to make my sim works, even no sleep. Really happy...
The problem was the procedure to calibrate the pots. Finally everything is ok.
Thankyou admin.

G'day everyone.

Hoping someone might be able to help me understand my SMC3 Simtools setup.

• I have SMC3 on my arduino running on COM4. I can open the serial plotter in the Arduino IDE and can send commands to move the motors manually and read back their positions, so that seems to work OK.
• I have SMC3Utils connecting OK to the arduino, and I can move both of my motors OK using SMC3Utils - both responding fine to all of the Sine wave, Motion, Manual etc movements.
• I can't for the life of me get Simtools to make the motors move though.

In Simtools, I went to the Axis assignments, selected a generic 2D standard axis type (on both Axis Assignments tabs), and selected Default from the game list. I then set Axis1a and Axis2a to Surge at 35% and hit save.
I then went to the interface settings, chose serial, COM 4, 500000bits/s data rate, 8 data bits, No parity, 1 stop bit, 10bit binary output range, and set the interface output to [A<Axis1>][B<Axis2>][C<Axis3>] 10ms, and hit save


Now, whenever I go to Output testing, I can't get the motors to move at all. I made sure to close all other apps to nothing else was trying to access the serial link. I've played around with the settings a bit, but nothing works, and the above Interface settings seem to be the correct settings from what I've read on this forum.

Have I missed something? I'm really out of ideas at the moment, so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Nathan

@noorbeast thanks again - worked a treat

i am trying with arduino smc3 and simtool demo version. windows smc setuo and monitor utility works fine but simtool demo is not connecting to arduino com port , no data is being transfered. please help me out . i didn't get answer to this issue on site and net.

here are screenshot of settings.

antivirus is disabled.
output testing working good but data is not sending to uno.

Don't have answer to following question.
Was LFS run for a few laps before patching?

sir , my problem is that simtool is not connecting to arduino uno com port and not transferring data to uno.

meaning of saying that Output Testing works means virtual axes displaying movement according to game shown in screen shot named "working.jpg"
not able to move motors as there no output to uno from simtool via com port.
shown in screen shot named "not working.jpg"

com port is correct , windows smc setup and monitor utility works fine with com port 9

is it because i am using demo version of simtool

yes , only simtool and game manager is running with lfs Game
no data transfer is going on , arduino rx tx lights not blinking,
while using SMC3 utility, arduino motors runs.