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Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC one last question !!

on 2001-07-14 22:32:02 UTC
Right click the mouse over the axis numbers that you want to
zero and a small window will pop up that will allow you to put in
any value you want, provided it is less than the value of the soft
limits set up in the ini file.

Bill


> I got the bdi disk. I installed it okay. I wired up the home and
> limit switches. with the help of you folks I got out of e-stop and
> have been having a blast homing and cruising around with it. I have
> however got 1 last problem. I am used to windows based, or dos based
> controllers. with these I would jog in to the edge of the stock, find
> my stock zero, and then zero the axis by means of some button and
> with xyz zeroed, away I would go. I home with emc and this sets
> MACHINE zero for all the axes, but, my question is; after I have
> jogged to my STOCK 0,0,0 how do I set the axes to zero so that the g-
> code can start from part 0,0,0 rather than machine 0,0,0.
> I know this should be intuitively obvious but for some reason I
> just cant get the missing part
>

Discussion Thread

whollid1@m... 2001-07-14 20:45:57 UTC EMC one last question !! William Scalione 2001-07-14 22:32:02 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC one last question !! Jon Elson 2001-07-14 23:08:30 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC one last question !!