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Re: Homing and <goto zero> issues
« Reply #10 on: July 09, 2011, 09:57:51 AM »
You could probably check the reverse column for one motor, and home both the same direction. Probably several different ways of doing it.
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Re: Homing and <goto zero> issues
« Reply #11 on: July 10, 2011, 02:41:39 AM »
Ger21
You're right.  I have to take back my last post.  You were right the first time.
Somewhere along the line I reversed the A motor.
When I connected both the X and the A to gearing  I had the horrible grinding during jogging.
I corrected this by getting the motors configured so A was reverse of X and then jogging was fine.
I set up homing negative for both X and A, as you said previously.
I checked motor tuning: My A motor tuning was considerably different from X,
I copied and pasted the X motor tuning settings for steps, speed and acceleration to A and homing is now working smoothly.

So, I assume that Mach 3 will send the same step and Dir commands to the motor and its slave during normal operation  but this is not the case during homing? (i.e. homing is not slaved?)

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Re: Homing and <goto zero> issues
« Reply #12 on: July 10, 2011, 06:47:56 AM »
Homing is not slave if you have separate switches. I somehow had different homing speeds setup once, and it took me a while to figure out what was going on. ;)

If you want to use one home switch with a slaved axis, there's an option in General Config, "Home Slave with Master", which will slave them during homing.
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Re: Homing and <goto zero> issues
« Reply #13 on: July 12, 2011, 09:20:03 PM »
Homing is not slave if you have separate switches. I somehow had different homing speeds setup once, and it took me a while to figure out what was going on. ;)
I don't feel quite so silly now

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If you want to use one home switch with a slaved axis, there's an option in General Config, "Home Slave with Master", which will slave them during homing.

That's useful to know.  I had not seen that option

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Re: Homing and <goto zero> issues
« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2012, 11:23:06 PM »
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If you want to use one home switch with a slaved axis, there's an option in General Config, "Home Slave with Master", which will slave them during homing.
Is this what the 3 axis version of the 2010 screenset does?

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Re: Homing and <goto zero> issues
« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2012, 12:15:46 PM »
The Screenset doesn't really have anything to do with homing. You just modify the homing script to do what you want. I use the 3 axis screen with slaved X axis, and each axis has it's own switch. Even though the screen only display 3 axis of coordinates, you can still control 6 axis and use as many switches as you want.
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Re: Homing and <goto zero> issues
« Reply #16 on: August 31, 2012, 08:42:01 AM »
Hi all,
I am relativley new to cnc I have installed the 2010 screenset and think its awsome, the auto zero functin is great, I am installing a lazer crosshair and have altered the M890 macro and all works fine but I thought that it would be even better if that macro moved the X & Y to the zero possition (crosshair possition) can someone suggest the additional line for the macro to do this

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Re: Homing and <goto zero> issues
« Reply #17 on: August 31, 2012, 11:35:41 AM »
Code "G0 X0 Y0"
While IsMoving()
Wend
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Re: Homing and <goto zero> issues
« Reply #18 on: August 31, 2012, 02:12:40 PM »
 >:DGeee whiz thats a quick reply i am trying it right now many thanks