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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: HOME with absolute encoders

« on: July 16, 2020, 05:03:16 PM »

I spoke with the DMM support and turned out the solution is rather simple. The homing coordinates are set in the drive and the homing command is triggered by a simple pulse to one of the drive pins. All of that is done completely independently from the CNC controller (Match4 in this case). The only thing you need to do in Mach4 is to Zero the coordinates after the homing is complete.

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Mach4 General Discussion / HOME with absolute encoders

« on: July 07, 2020, 10:12:12 AM »

I am planning on retrofitting a lathe with DMM servo motors with multi-turn absolute encoders. I consider running it with Mach4.

Is it possible to configure Mach4 to HOME with absolute encoders?

I know LinuxCNC can do that with the HOME_ABSOLUTE_ENCODER configuration setting. I am really trying to avoid using LinuxCNC for this machine and run it with a user-friendly controller such as Mach4.