Here is where things get really strange to me...
If I go into Ports and Pins and choose input signals, and turn on the X-- signal, the program changes the behavior of the X-Axis motor settings in the home/limits screen.
So for instance, I have X working as I want, I can run a gcode and it does what I expect. But if I change the Input Signals by turning on the X-- it sets the Reversed flag on the X Axis and turns off the Home Neg.
I'm not sure why but it makes setting options super hard because one button effects three others, and it's confusing and actually to me unwanted behavior. Imagine setting one option and suddenly your gantry moves in the other direction!!
So let me put the question this way:
If I set the X--, Y-- and Z-- (and reset my other settings back to what I want), then if I move the gantry past the limit the machine will stop and not crash?
Then for my Motor Home/Limits if set my Soft Max to the positive limit of my machine (for the outer limits), MachIII will not allow the gantry's to move past that position if I turn on the Auto LimitOverRide switch?
I need to spend a day and just read through the MachIII manual (I'm getting brain overload), but I thought the Software limits where supposed to limit the machine from running off the end..
Also one other question I noticed while playing, if I press the Goto Z on the program screen it locates the X-Y and then raises the Z, should it not be the other way around, would you not want to raise the tool out of the way first and then position the machine?? There's probably a setting for it somewhere I just have not found yet...
Thanks for the endless help
-Paul-