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Galil / Re: Migrating to newer computer
« on: February 06, 2014, 10:38:09 PM »
Back from travel and believe I solved one problem.
Also noticed I didn't answer your question about a gantry system. If I understand what a gantry is it is typically one of those large flat wood routing or plasma cutters that has an overhead gantry. No, mine is a Wells Index knee mill.
And, I'm pretty sure I solved one issue. My mill homes to upper right. I was trying to enter zero for far left and say 40 for far right in the soft max and soft min for the X axis and it didn't like that. I read about the home offset in the Homing/Limits config and it mentioned you could enter a value there if you home to say the middle of your table. Since mine offsets in upper right I just entered my soft max and soft min then put the home offset for X and Y at the max value. It seems right but I didn't have a lot of time to play with it.
Now I just have to figure out why it isn't consistently indexing. I did verify there are wires into both + and - index pins on the Galil breakout board for each axis(I believe it's a 1900) but I haven't run the wires back. I suppose an easier way would be to look in the Galil documentation and see if I can find a place to 'see' the index pulses in the Galil software/driver.
Mark
Also noticed I didn't answer your question about a gantry system. If I understand what a gantry is it is typically one of those large flat wood routing or plasma cutters that has an overhead gantry. No, mine is a Wells Index knee mill.
And, I'm pretty sure I solved one issue. My mill homes to upper right. I was trying to enter zero for far left and say 40 for far right in the soft max and soft min for the X axis and it didn't like that. I read about the home offset in the Homing/Limits config and it mentioned you could enter a value there if you home to say the middle of your table. Since mine offsets in upper right I just entered my soft max and soft min then put the home offset for X and Y at the max value. It seems right but I didn't have a lot of time to play with it.
Now I just have to figure out why it isn't consistently indexing. I did verify there are wires into both + and - index pins on the Galil breakout board for each axis(I believe it's a 1900) but I haven't run the wires back. I suppose an easier way would be to look in the Galil documentation and see if I can find a place to 'see' the index pulses in the Galil software/driver.
Mark