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The first question, when I press home button on the other software which are Lightburn or Grblcontrol. It goes to left and bottom for X and Y and the Z axis goes to the top as $23=3. Then I clicked get current positions and it showed X: -298.00 Y= -178.00 Z: -2.00.
Which setting I should change to get the current positions are 0,0,0 after the CNC goes to the its home position??
And for EASEL PRO, where is the Home button???
When I set my device with the EASEL PRO, I set the home position and It went the position, but I could not use any advantages of the homing switches with EASEL.
No need for mulitple posts, as Easel / Easel Pro is not different here.
1 - During homing the machine reference is synced to your design enviroment. It doesnt matter what the machine coordinates show, positive or negative value.
2 - Easel / Easel Pro user interface do not have a homing button. You need to issue a $H comand in the Machine Inspector Console window.
Typical work flow:
Power machine ON
Do a homing cycle ($H, establishing a machine/model enviroment reference)
Fasten your work piece and jog your bit over to your intended work zero position (stored as an offset from machine reference)
In Easel, to set work zero, click Confirm Home Position during the setup process
Home position do NOT equal homing position (switches)
Sorry for the twice posting. I wanted delete one of the posts but I could not find the delete option.
For the question 1, how can I change my machine coordinate to be positive?
I tried to change $3 and also $23, but they are not working. when I change $3=2 to $3=0 the Y axis is inverted. So the home position changed to left to the right.
After it goes to the home position, I want to use G code to move X and Y axis for a specific location in the machine inspector console window. But my machine position after homing, it gave me negative coordinate which are -298, -178, -2. I set $130=300, $131=180. $132=45, and $27=2.
If it gave -298, -178, -43. or 2, 2, 2. it might be better but I want to know how to change them to 0,0,0 for easy calculation to work with it.
The $130-132 values only specify the range for soft limits. They dont require machine coordinates to read 0,0,0 in order to work as intended.
$27 specify the pull-off distance after making switch contact/trigger.
What are you trying to solve? I am asking in order to try to understand your intent
