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General Mach Discussion / Confused with setting limits in Mach3
« on: August 27, 2007, 03:13:02 PM »
Hello All-

I am pulling my hair out trying to figure out something in Mach3.  I was trying to set my "limits" with my X axis last night.  I jogged my X-axis to the front of my machine and hit the "Zero X" button to zero out the DRO.  I then jogged the X-axis to the extent of my machine.  The X-axis DRO said 28 inches.  So, in the "Motor Home/SoftLimits" menu, I set the Soft Max to 27 and the SoftMin to 0.  I then moved the X-Axis to about 15 and then activated the Soft Limits toggle.  As I moved toward zero, it instantly started slowing down.  It got to like 14, and then stopped.  I was able to move past 27 and it didn't stop.

So, I toggled the "Home Negative" toggle on, but then I couldn't turn on the Soft Limits toggle.  It said that it wouldn't activate because I was outside of my limits, even though I was.

I tried everything and couldn't get it to work.

I have no limit switches so far, so I was hoping to set the programming limits so I wouldn't drive one of the axis farther than it could go.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?  I've attached a picture of what I have it set to so far.

Thank you-

Brad

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