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General Mach Discussion / Re: Question about Homing Offset feature in Mach 3

« on: October 29, 2015, 09:35:34 AM »

The manuals are good, but an equally powerful resource is the forum search utility.
Just put in "home off" and gads of info is at your fingertips. Including what I pasted in from Hood.

Russ

Thanks. I will try that out.
 Russ

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Question about Homing Offset feature in Mach 3

« on: October 28, 2015, 08:55:56 PM »

I confess I have not read the whole manual yet. I started to read it yesterday. So far I made it to page 55 or so. Its tough (for me anyway) trying to learn G code, Mach 3, inkscape and Sheetcam all at the same time. Not to mention all the manuals from CandCNC for the electronics. Its all kind of overwhelming but slowly but surely between all of them and all the kind folks out here on the various forums and the guys at CandCNC I am learning quite a lot pretty quickly. I'm just not as organized about it all as I would like to be. Mainly I just cant wait until I can finally successfully get this system configured at can start cutting out some stuff from some sheets of metal. After all isn't that what its all about.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Question about Homing Offset feature in Mach 3

« on: October 28, 2015, 05:12:38 PM »

Thanks for the clarification about this feature. I was wondering if it might have been for a different use than what I originally was thinking. I will pass this info on to my friend on spiderplasma.com as well. This still might be useful for me because that's the configuration I have, limit switches beyond the home switches on the Y axis anyway. And probably soon to be on my X axis as well.
 

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General Mach Discussion / Question about Homing Offset feature in Mach 3

« on: October 28, 2015, 02:21:41 PM »

Under the motor home and soft limits menu in Mach 3 there is a place to put in values for homing offsets.
I tried putting in two different values there for my X and Y axis home switches. I used 1.000 and 0.250 on both switches for two different checks. Then I told those axis to go to their homes. I did not see the motors come back way from the switches on those two axis any differently than before I changed them from their default settings of 0.000 and did a Ref Y or a Ref Z to home my gantry in those axis.
Someone I know told me that this feature used to work like that for home but now it does not work anymore. If that is what this setting is for it did not work for me either. Is this a bug or no longer valid or is this setting for some other function?
Cheers,
Ed

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Smoothstepper ESS new setup failing to connect

« on: October 20, 2015, 04:45:58 PM »

I have experienced this same problem even with only one NIC on my computer.