Hello, I guess I'm using the wrong terminology. I'm calling "hard limit" the table running up against the frame.
I've also noticed that soft limits (in some cases) don't come into play. Maybe it only comes into play after the first *home* setting or after the first program is run. Robert W. John Thornton wrote: >Even if you fire up the machine at the extreme of travel you still home it >first which >sets the home positions. Then you have no problem. > >John > >On 30 Apr 2008 at 13:49, rtwas wrote: > > > >>Hello, >> >>Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: >> >> >> >>>I don't think you can disable soft limits, you'd have to make a >>>config with larger limits than your machine actually has. I wouldn't >>>recommend that unless you're pretty sure the machine can't get hurt >>>if an axis slams into a limit at full speed. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>I think you might be able to see my quandary though. If you for some >>reason one kills emc2 at any extreme in travel, the next time it comes >>up you find you are trapped on one side by a hard limit, and the other >>by a soft limit. You can't move the table. If it were not for the fact >>that I had a small negative value beyond home, I'd have not been able >>to move the table at all without manually moving the lead screw by >>hand. >> >>Robert W. >> >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>--- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference >>Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save >>$100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. >>http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com >>/javaone _______________________________________________ Emc-users >>mailing list [email protected] >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> >> >> > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference >Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. >Use priority code J8TL2D2. >http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone >_______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
