On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:00:03PM +0100, Steve Blackmore wrote: > > Why? Many CNC users never "home" a machine. > > My machines don't have "home" switches, "home" is wherever I zero my > machines. That changes job to job, I certainly don't want to be zooming > off to some inconvenient position, just because somebody else "forgets".
If you would read up on homing in EMC2, you would see that one method of homing is to just zero the axis wherever it currently sits. This is one option for machines without home switches. http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/config_ini_homing.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
