Steve Blackmore wrote: > Softlimits? I don't use them. I have limit switches, I don't use them > either, I think since the eighties I've hit them twice. They are simply > there to stop the machine ramming the end of the ballscrews ;) > > Why not use soft limits? They don't hurt! If you command a move that would exceed the machine's limits of travel, EMC will not even START the move, you get a message to that effect. > I don't directly use "machine coordinates" either, they are meaningless > to me as an operator. I, and many others, are only interested in work > coordinates. Absolutely true. The only purpose for machine coords is for the machine's limits of travel, and the machine error compensation tables. (May also be needed in kinematics calcs for non-cartesian machines.) > What the Controller thinks they are is irrelevant to me, as > long as I've told it where the work zero's are that should be > sufficient. > > Yes, except for setting up the machine, I never see these, either.
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