Hi,
Axis --How to set actual home position-When you move the axis to home switch positions how do you reset or declare that as zero position on the axis motor ?
With Mach3, and likewise Mach4, when the home switch activates, the axis backs up the switch de-activates the machine coordinate for
that axis is reset to zero, or alternately, to an offset that you program. If you do not have a home switch assigned to that axis, or you can program
it if you wish, to 'Home in Place'. Under that circumstance the moment the axis is homed it immediately sets the machine coordinate to zero.
I have been using Mach4 for six years....so my memory of Mach3 is now pretty patchy. In Mach3 you write macros in Visual Basic, or in fact a variant
of it called Cypress Enable. I personally never liked VB and so I elected to change to Mach4 which uses Lua as a scripting language. While Lua
and the modular architecture take some learning it is very much more powerful and flexible than VB/Mach3.
If you are new to Mach then I would have to recommend Mach4, all development on Mach3 ceased six years ago and not withstanding that it still works
and has a loyal fan-base it is becoming obsolete.
Craig