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General Mach Discussion / Re: Machine Zero

« on: November 11, 2013, 07:24:03 PM »

I have no home switches set up.  When I hit reference all the machine coordinates go on walkabout.  I was told they were looking for the home switches.  But I don't have any.  Another fellow on the Mach board at Yahoo said to disable X++, Y++, Z++, X--, Y--, Z-- in ports and pins- inputs as those were home signals my machine coordinates were were looking for.  Didn't work, they keep on walking.  I appreciate the answers. 

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General Mach Discussion / Machine Zero

« on: November 10, 2013, 08:18:57 PM »

I've read a lot threads on machine zero.  I still can't get my machine to do what I want.  I have a 4 x 8 table and only cut sheets of ply.  I zero my table at the corner of the sheet and the dxf/gcode origin.  No problem there.  Go to zero takes me to zero every time.  However it now wants to load my gcode at the MACHINE ZERO.  Thinking maybe I have a setting wrong.  What I need to know is if I can zero machine coordinates to table/work coordinates without home/limit switches and if so how.

Thanks, Joe