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General Mach Discussion / NOOB Question concerning the red boundary line in the display area
« on: October 17, 2010, 07:32:48 AM »
Hello everyone,
I've built a 2'x4' kit with dual X R&P drives and lead screw Y and Z, and have it put together, and have been working at getting Mach3 up and running. I mostly have been following the pdf instructions, but have recently found the training videos. In all of the training videos, the table's boundaries are represented by a red line. I have both limit switches (I have just one set of switches on my X, as opposed to having both X and A wired) and soft limits configured so that they seem to be working properly, but instead of a red boundary line, I see a gray 3D box (it's only 3D when you rotate the display off axis, otherwise it's a 2D box!) made up of dashed gray lines. I can't help but feel I have the limits screwed up somehow.
Any advice? I'm completely new to this, so there may be some basic concepts I'm missing that would be obvious to someone with more experience.
Thanks!
ps. this site needs a wiki
I've built a 2'x4' kit with dual X R&P drives and lead screw Y and Z, and have it put together, and have been working at getting Mach3 up and running. I mostly have been following the pdf instructions, but have recently found the training videos. In all of the training videos, the table's boundaries are represented by a red line. I have both limit switches (I have just one set of switches on my X, as opposed to having both X and A wired) and soft limits configured so that they seem to be working properly, but instead of a red boundary line, I see a gray 3D box (it's only 3D when you rotate the display off axis, otherwise it's a 2D box!) made up of dashed gray lines. I can't help but feel I have the limits screwed up somehow.
Any advice? I'm completely new to this, so there may be some basic concepts I'm missing that would be obvious to someone with more experience.
Thanks!
ps. this site needs a wiki