Hi Everyone,
First of all I just like to thank Jat for putting on this forum, and to all of you who are willing to participate in helping me as well as others who are new to the CNC world. I have never started a topic, let alone participate in a forum before, so I hope you will be somewhat forgiving and patient if I don't explain or express things correctly.
Just a bit about myself...AJ are my intitials, Andrew John, John being my middle name and not my lkast name, just call me Andrew. I'm in my mid 50's and I am a Handyman since 2003. I don't have much for a hobby as I don't seem to have enough time for them, but am trying to change that...life ios to short not to have any. So CNC is what I am aiming for as I do enjoy woodworking.
I have built a a plywood gantry style CNC table. The machine design is from Dave Gatton " Building a CNC on a Shoestring Budget" I have been trying for a while now to set things up, but have had some frustration in setting up the hard limits. I am presuming that the hard limits need to be set up before soft limits, but I am somewhat unclear on that fact.
Things that I have encountered while going througfh this process are the following, ( I will attempt to put these in point form ) in the attempt not to become to wordy, but sometimes that might be required to make my point. Thanks for your patience here.
# 1 Switches are in place, these are the small mechanical switches, not motion sensitive ones like the MASSO ones
# 2 The "X" axis is slaved together with "A" axis, The Gantry is set up as "Y" axis and the Router is set up as the "Z" axis
How do I set each axis hard limit point without triggering the switch and create an error which I have to reset and start over only to have the same issue again. If I "Zero" an axis by pressing the "Zero" button then I can't seem to get the machine to respond. I think I am already confused. I did in fact somehow get the settings in place, don't ask me how. I had the "Homing sequences" entered and then attempted to home the machine only tho have the slaved axis "A" not respond. So I would love to get feedback/help in knowing how to get to the point of setting up the hard and soft limits. Thank you, and I hope this isn't to much detail.
Andrew
First of all I just like to thank Jat for putting on this forum, and to all of you who are willing to participate in helping me as well as others who are new to the CNC world. I have never started a topic, let alone participate in a forum before, so I hope you will be somewhat forgiving and patient if I don't explain or express things correctly.
Just a bit about myself...AJ are my intitials, Andrew John, John being my middle name and not my lkast name, just call me Andrew. I'm in my mid 50's and I am a Handyman since 2003. I don't have much for a hobby as I don't seem to have enough time for them, but am trying to change that...life ios to short not to have any. So CNC is what I am aiming for as I do enjoy woodworking.
I have built a a plywood gantry style CNC table. The machine design is from Dave Gatton " Building a CNC on a Shoestring Budget" I have been trying for a while now to set things up, but have had some frustration in setting up the hard limits. I am presuming that the hard limits need to be set up before soft limits, but I am somewhat unclear on that fact.
Things that I have encountered while going througfh this process are the following, ( I will attempt to put these in point form ) in the attempt not to become to wordy, but sometimes that might be required to make my point. Thanks for your patience here.
# 1 Switches are in place, these are the small mechanical switches, not motion sensitive ones like the MASSO ones
# 2 The "X" axis is slaved together with "A" axis, The Gantry is set up as "Y" axis and the Router is set up as the "Z" axis
How do I set each axis hard limit point without triggering the switch and create an error which I have to reset and start over only to have the same issue again. If I "Zero" an axis by pressing the "Zero" button then I can't seem to get the machine to respond. I think I am already confused. I did in fact somehow get the settings in place, don't ask me how. I had the "Homing sequences" entered and then attempted to home the machine only tho have the slaved axis "A" not respond. So I would love to get feedback/help in knowing how to get to the point of setting up the hard and soft limits. Thank you, and I hope this isn't to much detail.
Andrew
