Hey all...
my mill has recently developed a new feature! of course, this could have very easily been accomplished by someone "fat-fingering" the touchscreen...
but, here it goes...
started up the machine today and re-homed it.. we utilize prox switches for home switches... with homing speeds @ approx 6 ipm (if that)... @ activation of the prox, the machine reversed direction, and backed off the switch. I looked @ the DRO, and it did NOT read 0.0 as I would expect? I went through the entire homing process, and this occured with all 3 axis.
I fortunately, make a backup of all files on the mill every time i work on it, and so i backdated the entire M3 directory to 14 days ago, when i last considered making changes.. Powered up the machine, and it homed just like it was supposed to... with an axis of 0.0 after the homing.
Am I just missing something really stupid here? I checked through all my notes, and don't see that I have done anything to M3 since 4-30-07 (when my last backup was), but as i mentioned above, and operator could have "fat-fingered" something on the touch-screen.
any help would be great if someone could possibly help shed some light here..
oh, machine is running Win2k, latest release of Mach3
thanks!
-Nate