On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Andy Pugh <a...@andypugh.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: > On 4 May 2010 17:31, Neil Baylis <neil.bay...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> There's a limit switch at each end. I want these switches to stop the >> machine if it ever hits them. >> I want to use the negative limit switch as the home switch. >> When I press the home button in the GUI (TkEMC), I want the machine to find >> that switch and then move away from it by maybe 1/2 inch. I want it to call >> that position home, and to set the current position to zero. > > All perfectly standard, I think.
Yeah, that's what I thought. > > This is mine: > HOME = 5.0 > MIN_LIMIT = 0.0 > MAX_LIMIT = 700.0 > HOME_OFFSET = 0.000000 > HOME_SEARCH_VEL = -25.000000 > HOME_LATCH_VEL = 1.562500 > HOME_IGNORE_LIMITS = YES > HOME_SEQUENCE = 1 When I set HOME_IGNORE_LIMITS = YES then the machine moves past the limit switch (Which is supposed to also be the home switch) and hits the hard stop. It does not seem to recognize the switch as a home switch. Neil ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
