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General Mach Discussion / Help Again

« on: June 30, 2016, 08:05:24 AM »

I am a newbie and have my 3040 machine all set up now. I have loaded the Gcode and I have the piece of wood on the bed. I have moved the cutter to the corner and I have then clicked each XYZ to 0 . When I click the start cycle it goes back to oo on the bed. How do I save the home to my work piece and not the bed.

Im running mach3

Much appreciated
Kev

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General Mach Discussion / Much need help with trying to move the x & y & z on my eBay 3040 cnc machine

« on: June 29, 2016, 08:07:33 AM »

Hi everyone . First of all this is a great forum with so much information on it .

I am a total newbie to mach3 and cnc work . I have installed Mach 3 and set up the pins and ports to what the one sheet of paper you get with it . I can get the spindle to turn no problem but can get the thing to move with keyboard or anything . When I press the arrows on the keyboard I can see the numbers move on the axis on the monster but the machine does not move .

I am totall sure it is something I am doing wrong and would most appreciated some help.

I am sure this is the first of many questions but would be happy for it to move for now . I am running mach3 on an xp machine and I installed a pci- parallel card and the drivers are all good.

I look forward to the reply.
Many thanks Kev