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Re: Soft limits warning
« Reply #10 on: September 09, 2011, 03:22:38 PM »
Doing that means I would have to adjust all the locations in my tool change change script and touch off, right? And then I would also have to edit my post because the Z0 moves would be at the soft limit, through the safe zone. I had just test run a few programs before reading this and nothing in the standard g-code in every file causes the machine to go near the soft limits yet I get the warning every time.

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Re: Soft limits warning
« Reply #11 on: September 09, 2011, 03:31:12 PM »
Attach your code, your tooltable, offset table and xml and I will see if I can figure it out. Tooltable and Offset will be found in the macro folder then in the folder of your profile, they are called tools3.dat and fixtures.dat
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Re: Soft limits warning
« Reply #12 on: September 09, 2011, 03:31:31 PM »
Testing here IF I violate the space then I get the warning IF I stay in the boundaries I do not.

SO can you post an example of a short program that causes you problems? Easy enough to test.


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Re: Soft limits warning
« Reply #13 on: September 09, 2011, 03:51:31 PM »
Here's the attachments. I tired using the home offsets, see picture attached of the settings I used. It still didn't fix the warning message, the only way I can get rid of the message besides turning soft limits off is move the Z max to say 3, it just doesn't appear to be calculating tool offsets when reading the program before running it.
Re: Soft limits warning
« Reply #14 on: September 09, 2011, 03:58:14 PM »
Forgot to include the g-code in the zip file, but if you look back at my third post in this thread you'll see the .nc file attached.

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Re: Soft limits warning
« Reply #15 on: September 09, 2011, 04:40:28 PM »
You have some weird things going on in Ports and Pins, for example you have the Home switches set up to port 1 pins7, 8 and 9. They are OutPuts on Port 1 but maybe you have some other type of hardware that can share pins?

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Re: Soft limits warning
« Reply #16 on: September 09, 2011, 04:49:10 PM »
Just a note BUT the gocde has the Z running ABOVE the softlimits zone.

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Re: Soft limits warning
« Reply #17 on: September 09, 2011, 06:16:06 PM »
Ok just found out you are using Industry Control Software with the MCB1 and really you should be getting support from them as your xml wont run on Mach3.
I did load your xml, tool table etc into IC and loading the code didnt give me a softlimit  error but afraid I dont have the MCB1 so cant test things properly.
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Re: Soft limits warning
« Reply #18 on: September 09, 2011, 06:57:10 PM »
Thanks, guess I will taking this thread to their forums then. As for the g-code running above soft limits - it does not. It looks that way because with tool and work offsets applied Z0 become the top of the spoil board/bottom of material, so besides the -.005 cut through depth, all the Z moves in the g-code are positive values. When the g-code returns the Z axis to 'home' it uses G53, disregarding the offsets and staying clear of the soft limits.

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Re: Soft limits warning
« Reply #19 on: September 09, 2011, 08:02:25 PM »
OH but it does , You are using the the inverse z method where all your moves are positive instead of negative. That is backwards to conventional useage.  You now have 2 homes that move in opposite directions of each other(;-)

 IF you set the Z zero too high off the table OR use a tool offset that moves the Z into the machine  Softlimit zone it will trip.

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