On 2013/10/09 07:40 AM, Richard Thornton wrote: > Hi, > > So I have one of the Chinese 6040 gantry CNC routers, like this, I > have setup the axis as I have indicated in the image: > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/ochmutxnacs4fo6/6040.JPG > > The 6040 does not have any limit/home switches yet. Then you have to set NO_FORCE_HOMING in your ini file. This will allow you to use Axis without homing switches > > Now under stepconf, using mm, I have setup: > > X 0-550 home 275 > Y 0-400 home 200 > Z 0-60 home 5 Why do you offset your home position if you dont have home switches. Just make it zero
> Putting home in the centre of xy to keep it simple right now > > All of the axis move OK, so my next step way to get it to go through > some gcode without any tool, I get various error but they are all of > the same flavour: > > Program exceeds machine minimum on axis x > Program exceeds machine minimum on axis y > Program exceeds machine minimum on axis z > Linear move on line 7 would exceed joint 0's negative limit > I also get errors about it not being homed, then under "Manual > Control" I select each axis and click "Home", I think this is wrong. > > I tried the LinuxCNC logo gcode that loads as default and created my > own 50x50 text in Cut2D both give similar errors to the ones above. > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/n803ycbfmkm3u8g/Quick%20Engrave%201.ngc > > I think I am doing something fundamentally wrong here, please help. > > Thanks for looking. > > Cheers > Richard > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > October Webinars: Code for Performance > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from > the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Regards / Groete Marius D. Liebenberg MasterCut cc Cel: +27 82 698 3251 Tel: +27 12 743 6064 Fax: +27 86 551 8029 Skype: marius_d.liebenberg --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 131008-0, 2013/10/08 Tested on: 2013/10/09 07:52:33 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2013 AVAST Software. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
