I've got some questions for you guy's that have built your machines.
1)Homing the machine. How do you send the machine home? Or where do you set machine "zero"? Do you let it limit out on the limit switch and then reset the zero's in the software? Do you set some kind of pin into the table and indicate it or the edge of the workpiece? If so, how do you "dial" the gantry over to the pin or edge?
Orrrrr, have I been a button pusher on a big machine for so long that I am over engineering a non-existant problem?
2)Speaking of limit switches, once you hit a L/S, doesn't it shut the stepper/servo drive travel down? If so, do you have to manually rotate the motor shaft to move the table away from the L/S to enable movement?
I've got a million more questions and hopefully you guys don't tell me to
shut up too soon!
Thanks for shedding some light on this for me! DON