Machsupport Forum
Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: kuhncw on November 19, 2006, 10:36:16 PM
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I am new to CNC and learning a lot. I have a Taig mill with steppers on X and Y. I will add the Z stepper as soon as I get comfortable moving the table around.
I am running Mach3, version R1.84.001, Bob Campbell's Mach3 Enclosure, and Bob's SoundlogicM3.xml file. I don't have limit or home switches on the mill yet.
No problem running several simple G Code files, but I found that my machine zeros were changing. I finally figured out that if I move the table to some location away from X and Y zero, close Mach3, and restart Mach3, machine zero is then at the last spindle location before shutting Mach down. From listening to Art's Homing and Limits video several times, I thought that machine zero could only be changed by referencing the machine to the home switches and of course, I don't have home switches yet. Any suggestions. I may have something set wrong or be doing something wrong. I am not sure I've given enough information, so please let me know if some other detail is needed.
Thanks,
Chuck
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Hey Chuck,
Do you have persistant offsets enabled?
I can't remember where this is set in version 1.84. Maybe config, mill options. Set your's up like these and see if that does it.
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Put in a better pic.
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Hello Chaoticone,
Thanks for the tip. I didn't have persistent DROs selected. Now machine zero stays the same when I power down and come back up. Also, I now know an easy way to move machine zero.
Chuck
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Good, glad you got it. :)