New to mach3. Need help please.

[Araknid01]

Is anyone here from the northern Virginia area?

I am building a laser cutter/engraver and am looking for someone near me that is experienced in initial setup.

Thanks in advance for a reply.

Eric

[ostie01]

You could ask some questions to members, I'm sure they can help even if they are on the other side of the world.

Jeff

[Tweakie.CNC]

Jeff is quite right, we are all over the place but we are all joined up with little wires and communicate with each other just like a breakout board and set of gecko's. 

Seriously though Eric, we are all here to help you, just ask away.

Tweakie.

[Araknid01]

Thanks all for the kind words. I already feel like I'm part of the family here.

What I've built is a laser cutter/engraver based off of the build on www.buildlog.com. Bart Dring's design. He has been more than helpful through the process.

My stepper setup is a three axis xyz configuration. Machine is now built and I'm needing to get the basic motor tuning setup. I'm running nema 17 motors through a geckodrive g540. Where do I start? Setting up home stops etc? Is there a video for this or can someone walk me through please.

Thanks in advance

Eric

[Hood]

There are videos on the ftp site which explain the basics as well as more complex things, you will find them here ftp://anonymous@machsupport.com/Videos/

Hood