OK, now I'm really confused. since i played w/ the soft limits earlier, i thought i'd jog to the middle of the table just to see if maybe that had something to do w/ it, and i've apparently got that screwed up. the axes will only move in one direction and when i move in that direction and then try to move back, it will move about 1/2 inch and then stop -- that is, the axis will stop but the stepper will sound like it's being stressed. 1/2 inch is what i have the slow down set at. the table is x44 by y24 by z7, so I set the soft maxes at x43, y23, and z6, with the soft mins set at 0. the checks at the left under the heading Reversed are all red, the checks under the heading Home Neg are all red, and the checks under the Auto Zero are all green. I have 000Home set at the upper left corner if you are standing at the open end of the table where you would put the material in. is that all wrong?