Oh and regards the Home switches, you need some means of referencing the machine, either via accurate home switches or if your drives support it Index homing in the drives. Some drives can also set home with a motor current value, in other words you drive the axis against a stop and if it reaches a set current the drive stops the motor and sets the home position, this however would be tricky as you would have to have the stop positioned before the limits so not really an option if you have limits.
Other option is if you can accurately position the axis (align marks etc) then you can just tell Mach it is home, but obviously it will only be as accurate as your manual positioning is.
Hood
I thought I read somewhere that to set home, you hit the limit and then back it off just a tad and tell the machine that is home? This is just from memory...
Can I use seperate inputs and tell mach they are home switches and not limits?
Another option I guess I could do is hook LEDs to the original home switches and just run the motor up slow until the LED comes on and tell mach that is home. I could just put LED's on the panel permanently for this indication in order to "recalibrate" periodically. Any need for this?
I am sure I may be asking some dumb questions, but I am trying to educate myself ahead of time. This may be more clear to me as I actually get the machine working. Right now I am just waiting on parts and preparing.
I am going to call Machmotion and see what they recommend today.