Re: Newbie - Help & Clarifications - Home and Limit Swtiches

I personally find it interesting when people remove features from a
machine in order to make it work "More easily" or to make it "Work
the way I want to".

I fail to see what advantages there are to removing a limit switch.
It is there to prevent an axis from traveling past a certain point.
Having it there prevents the overtravel, I fail to see the
inconvenience with that feature.

I also do not understand what can be gained by removing a home
switch. The home switch is a fixed point on an axis that you can
reference the machine's axis to. From that position, you can very
easily measure the program zero point of the workpiece and using
either work offsets or some other form of coordinate setting method
(G92), to establish the relationship between machine and part.

Removing such features only serves to reduce the overall
functionality of the machine and to open it (and the operator) up to
safety problems. I can see no possible way in which either of these
two features makes a CNC machine tool more difficult to use.
Rather, I suspect that the desire to do so has more to do with not
knowing how to use the machine properly in the first place.

Chris