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Mach4 General Discussion / Mach4 G28 issue with ethernet smoothstepper
« on: November 04, 2016, 04:56:07 PM »
Hi. I have just recently Installed the latest Mach 4 (Mach4Hobby Installer-4.2.0.3206) and have the latest ESS plug in version 186. I am running a milling machine and have set the ESS to be home in place. I am not using limit switches or home switches at all. (Only software limits) and when I hit refallhome all the red leds go to greeen.
The problem is all my gcode file usually end with a simple G28 command which moves the machine to home in Mach 3 but nothing happens in Mach 4. In Mach 3 a G28 command moves the z-axis to machine coordinates 0 first then the remaining axis X, Y and A to 0.
Is there something I am missing. G28 X0 Y0 Z0 in mach 4 does move the axis but G28 by itself does nothing?
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P.s Sorry forgot to mention I haven't licensed Mach 4 yet. It's still running in demo mode for me to asses compared to Mach 3. Also can you edit the lua edit script/debug whilst running the demo version. I can see the lua file but not edit and save it.
I am a fairly new user and not that familiar with Mach 4.
The problem is all my gcode file usually end with a simple G28 command which moves the machine to home in Mach 3 but nothing happens in Mach 4. In Mach 3 a G28 command moves the z-axis to machine coordinates 0 first then the remaining axis X, Y and A to 0.
Is there something I am missing. G28 X0 Y0 Z0 in mach 4 does move the axis but G28 by itself does nothing?
?P.s Sorry forgot to mention I haven't licensed Mach 4 yet. It's still running in demo mode for me to asses compared to Mach 3. Also can you edit the lua edit script/debug whilst running the demo version. I can see the lua file but not edit and save it.
I am a fairly new user and not that familiar with Mach 4.