JC
Coos Cues
I have watched every how to video I can find and still have trouble with this concept.
I set up soft limits to prevent my gantry and spindle from crashing in g54 and it works fine as long as you don't zero an axis. For instance if I center my x axis for ring billets by clicking on the zero x button it changes the default g54 x from the lower left corner to the center of my fourth axis permanently. Or if I touch off my router bit and click zero z the zero position for z in g 54 changes permanently and the machine position also then says zero instead of what it's supposed to tell you which is how far from home you are. Then when I hit go to zero the router slams into my table. Therefore I'm scared to death to push that button as I am never sure what's going to happen even though I know it's supposed to go back to the original home. It's supposed to be the slickest thing since sliced bread but I am not sure what to do different to stop this from occurring.
Then I tried setting up an offset in g55 mainly just for remembering the center of my ring billet rounds in the x axis which is a pain to find every time I want to cut a billet and when I clicked on reference all home and zeroed the axis' it worked perfectly. Until I went back to g54 to find every setting there was identical to what i had just set up in g55. So If I set zeros back on g54 to the lower left corner of my table and then click on g55 it's also now zeroing there. I do click save settings after every change. And then when I close Mach and come back it's just a hot mess.
On the videos I watch it works like a dream but on my machine it's a damned nightmare.
Can anyone relate to these issues in their past and found out what they were doing wrong?
Thanks,
I set up soft limits to prevent my gantry and spindle from crashing in g54 and it works fine as long as you don't zero an axis. For instance if I center my x axis for ring billets by clicking on the zero x button it changes the default g54 x from the lower left corner to the center of my fourth axis permanently. Or if I touch off my router bit and click zero z the zero position for z in g 54 changes permanently and the machine position also then says zero instead of what it's supposed to tell you which is how far from home you are. Then when I hit go to zero the router slams into my table. Therefore I'm scared to death to push that button as I am never sure what's going to happen even though I know it's supposed to go back to the original home. It's supposed to be the slickest thing since sliced bread but I am not sure what to do different to stop this from occurring.
Then I tried setting up an offset in g55 mainly just for remembering the center of my ring billet rounds in the x axis which is a pain to find every time I want to cut a billet and when I clicked on reference all home and zeroed the axis' it worked perfectly. Until I went back to g54 to find every setting there was identical to what i had just set up in g55. So If I set zeros back on g54 to the lower left corner of my table and then click on g55 it's also now zeroing there. I do click save settings after every change. And then when I close Mach and come back it's just a hot mess.
On the videos I watch it works like a dream but on my machine it's a damned nightmare.
Can anyone relate to these issues in their past and found out what they were doing wrong?
Thanks,