On Jul 2, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Ian R Upton wrote: > Gentlefolk, > > I have my little cnc router working. Some things need to be tidied up > but I can cut things and I am learning a lot. > > What appears to be a fundamental issue with it is how do I define the > base "home" position of each axis? > That is how can I relate some physical x-y-z location on the machine > to > the "home" in EMC? > > The beast has no "home" position indicators and/or position. It does > have solid state "limit" switches at both ends of all axis. > > Is there some way to program EMC to utilise the limit switches? > For example (on each axis) "find the left limit move right 10mm" and > that is the 'home' position for that axis. > > Any help appreciated, Ian >
Ian, this will help you understand how homing works in EMC2 http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html//config_ini_homing.html Once you did read that, then read some of the example ini files that have various homing configurations configured. It's pretty easy actually! Ries ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
