I got the brackets for the slave axis motor made up and fitted through the week, also got it all wired with the exception of some I/O in the drive.
I was originally just going to use the follower mode in the drive and connect it directly to the Y axis drive which would be the master. However I took a look at the CSMIO plugin and read a wee bit about it and it has a nice feature.
What you can do is have two switches on either side of the gantry and you can then set in the plugin to measure the difference between switches. You home the axis then go back into the plugin and you will now see the difference in distance and can then enable the plugin to use the difference when homing.
Best bit however is if you find your gantry is not quite square to the other axis you can adjust the distance in the plugin and it will offset one end of the axis by the amount you have added or subtracted from the home switch distance.
Waiting on a few prox's arriving so have not been able to test it out yet but hopefully they will arrive next week.
Also got all my panel buttons configured in the macropump, have 9 all together that go via the CSMIO/Mach and the other two are Control which starts the computer and then also powers the 24v for CSMIO etc. The other button is a Limit Override button as my limits work external to Mach via my Safety relay so to back off a limit I need a physical Override button.
Anyway the buttons I have via the Macropump are
Start
Hold
Stop
THC On/Off
Reference
Reset X (Fault Reset)
Reset Y (Fault Reset)
Reset Z (Fault Reset)
Touch Off material (For doing the homing routine in the servo drive)
Got to try and get the boatyard pinned down to shifting my cabin, I can then get the 3 phase in and start making the tray/extraction/support bars.
Really looking forward to the day I can actually start cutting some metal
Hood