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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 and/or ESS has my Y AXIS running backward.

« on: August 08, 2022, 09:19:47 PM »

Are you sure that its not just because you're in New Zealand and everything is upside down? Just kidding. I just got off the phone with a local fellow and he basically explained all of this to me. Who new? The whole machine is backwards. But that's the way we bought it and had no way of knowing the difference. And its been running fine for several years. The man we bought it from used Linux and spoke G Code like it was his first language but I didn't have the time to learn programming and G Code so I went with VCarve and M4. Why not let the software do the work for you right? Now I know why the tech support people blow me off so quickly. They all think I've been drinking heavily. At any rate, once we get past this next week or so, we're going to spin that puppy around, re-locate the home switches and this local fellow will help us get on the standard track. Thank you so much for all the valuable info. It does make more sense now.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 and/or ESS has my Y AXIS running backward.

« on: August 08, 2022, 06:58:58 PM »

Forgive me but I just don't understand your diagrams. When I move the spindle out away from home, the Digital Read Out in Mach 4 counts into the minus numbers for x an y. You're saying it should be positive? Is our "Home" in the typical spot?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 and/or ESS has my Y AXIS running backward.

« on: August 08, 2022, 06:29:02 PM »

So this set up is wrong? See attached.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 and/or ESS has my Y AXIS running backward.

« on: August 08, 2022, 11:20:32 AM »

It does reverse but in the final analysis, we need to add the mirror code for all 3 axis. Maybe our whole machine is just set up backwards but it never use to do this kind of thing.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 and/or ESS has my Y AXIS running backward.

« on: August 08, 2022, 10:34:30 AM »

This is our router at home zero.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 and/or ESS has my Y AXIS running backward.

« on: August 08, 2022, 09:46:39 AM »

So Steve, I see where in other parts of the forum here that you suggest the ESS may not be so compatible with Mach 4. Should be try a different route? We are back to square one again and its still an axis direction issue.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Should we re-install Mach 4

« on: August 08, 2022, 09:01:06 AM »

So would that be a change to the "high/lo" setting?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 and/or ESS has my Y AXIS running backward.

« on: August 08, 2022, 08:43:57 AM »

You got that right. Drew a new file. Simple pocket cut and now it wants to attack it from the wrong end. I can't believe this. It worked Saturday on a different file? I removed the mirroring code and it just went back to reversed initialization. Its like irs amking things up as it goes. And I just don't have the experience to correct it.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 and/or ESS has my Y AXIS running backward.

« on: August 07, 2022, 10:10:42 PM »

It turns out that we needed to add some "mirroring" code to the Initialization fields in the "default" section of Mach 4. G51 I believe.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 and/or ESS has my Y AXIS running backward.

« on: August 06, 2022, 09:52:54 AM »

The Y DRO matches the direction of actual travel in both the original file and the adjusted version of the code. In both cases, when Y moves to the minus, the DRO shows the minus and vice versa.