Hey Guys, First a little introduction. My name is Steve Robertson and I live in the mountains of Western North Carolina. I have always been fascinated by "robots" and industrial machines but, until now, have never had the opportunity to work/play with one.
I am a newby to CNC and machining so, forgive me for any stupid questions that I might ask. I have read many of the posts in the forums and found the info there to be invaluable. I am crrently building a fixed gantry 3 axis mill that will be used primarily for drilling and routing of PC boards. The major construction is finished and I am ready to put the finishing touches on it. At this time, all three axis move smoothly but, both the mechanical and software components will need some tweaking. While not "professional" in appearance or function, I am still proud of the machine and expect it will perform adequately. So to my questions: Where is home? Does it matter? >From what I gather the X-Axis is generally considered the movement of the tool from left-to-right. The Y-axis is considered to be movement toward and away from the front of the machine. The Z-axis is of course, the up-down movement. >From what little I understand, the Z-axis would be homed when the tool is moved away from the workpiece. In the case, fully retracted "upwards". Is this correct? In my machine the tool moves left and right. Which direction is "home"? When the tool is moved fully to the left? Or when the tool is moved fully to the right? In this machine the workpiece is mounted on slides that move it towards and away from the front of the machine. Is the home position when the table (workpiece) is moved forward (towards the front) or when the table is moved rearward (away from the front)? Lastly, I am very impressed with EMC and expect to spend many happy hours playing with my new toy. Thanks, SteveRob steerex [at] ccvn [dot] com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
