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General Mach Discussion / Re: Homing and Home Offset
« on: February 02, 2014, 07:15:21 AM »1) The only way to rest machine coordinates is to home the machine. Clicking Ref All is all you need to do. You can';t zero machine coordinates any other way than homing.
So Machine homing has to take place at each start up of the machine or in the event something goes wrong in order for it to know where it physically is, correct? Essentially "REF ALL" sends the machine to the home switches where the axes can then be set to zero.
2)The Offsets are in machine coordinates, so if you click the Machine Coordinates button after homing, you should see 2,2, and -1 in the DRO's
This is exactly what it does from a visual perspective on the screen in the DRO's but the machine is not physically doing this, however the machine is not offset from the home switches 2", 2" , 2" and 1".
Adam,