Hi, I'm a bit confused.... I'm running EMC 2.1.7 with a simple stepper setup and, at the moment, no home or limit switches set up. So, I set the material on the machine and then want to zero EMC at some point on this material. From the literature I assumed that I should go to the AXIS manual screen, jog to the position I want and hit the 'Touch Off' button to set the position as far as software is concerned to zero or some other chosen figure - it doesn't seem to work.... or, at least, not for all axes which seems strange. When I do this, a couple of the axes will show 0.000 on the screen but the other two will change to some other figure that I can't understand like -3.234 or 24.554 or something - different from the figure they were at but not zero or the commanded figure. Also, when I hit the 'Home' button on this manual screen, some of the axes will just dhow the home symbol next to the displayed figure but others will again change their figures. I have been setting the position by issuing a G92 command for each axis but, if I then hit the 'home' button again, the figure will change and I have to do it all again. Is it me or is there a problem with my ini files or the program? I believe someone also mentioned being able to set axes to zero with a 'shift-home' command from the keyboard but this doesn't seem to do anything on my setup. Maybe I just don't understand what should be happening - could someone enlighten me please?
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