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Galil / Auto Zero

« on: October 25, 2015, 05:48:39 PM »

Can anyone confirm if the Auto Zero function works while using a Galil controller?  or not?

I've been using a 2142 for quite awhile no problem but, I got the 2010 screenset and thought I'd add the autozero..  after initial touch instead of going up .050" and retrying, it's sends the Z up to the hard stop and jams, then the software appears to be trying to go back down for a little while and gives up.

It's been suggested that the plug-in cant handle auto zero..

thoughts?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Home Switch on the high side

« on: September 29, 2015, 09:30:54 AM »

daft question...

why not just turn the machine 180degrees - the home will be correct then

You're right!  that is a daft question 

If I did that, then the machine wins..   I can't let that happen.   There must be a way.....

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Home Switch on the high side

« on: September 29, 2015, 09:14:56 AM »

are you certain the machine coordinates are being zeroed when homing??
and not just the work DRO?

Yes.  What I'd *like* is a way to tell the machine when it's homed, it's at X24 Y24.   Not a big deal if I was writing Galil , Labview, C++ code..  I just don't know how to enable this in Mach...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Home Switch on the high side

« on: September 29, 2015, 07:53:59 AM »

so the DRO shows 24 when homed, what happens when you tell it to 'go to home' ??

I would have hoped it would go to where you want it to??

Ya!  me too!    but it just stays put - as if it is ignoring the DRO.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Home Switch on the high side

« on: September 29, 2015, 06:48:59 AM »

Try the Home Neg option in Config > Homing/Limits.

ya, to do that I'd have to physically move the home switches to the lower left - I'm trying to avoid doing that.

I tried using the home offset, setting them both to 24.  The DRO will now display that it's at 24 when it homes, but the machine still acts like it's at zero and running a program makes it head off past the home switches and crashes to the end.

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General Mach Discussion / Home Switch on the high side

« on: September 28, 2015, 09:54:41 PM »

Mach3 -> Galil 2142 -> Routenstein w/servo motors

So I realize one day that I have enough parts from other machines to build a router.. yippee!  I put it all together and have been successful all the way to you getting it to properly home..  cutting air is on the horizon..
I have a single switch on each axis and am using it as a home switch for that axis.  They were already mounted nicely so I left them be - the X and Y ended up with the home switch on the high-side of the travel. in other words, as you're facing the machine, the X home is on the right and the Y home is at the back.  Of course, I want zero to be at the lower left.
I set the home offsets for X and Y to each be 24, expecting that when the machine was commanded to go to X0 and Y0 it would truck on down to the opposite corner.  Alas, it stays right where it is. Obviously, despite the DROs happily telling me 24.0000, the machine still considers itself at 0.0000

Can anyone tell m what I must do here?

many thanks!

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Galil / Re: buy Mach4 yet? for a Galil DMC 2133?

« on: September 25, 2015, 03:25:34 PM »

Bumping this up...    Anyway to run a Galil with Mach 4 yet???