Re-Calibrate After Every Reboot?
I have been using Mach3 with my X2 mill for about six months. Learning the basic functions to get up and going was a bit of an uphill climb, but I feel more comfortable with it now. However, there is one thing that I have not been able to get a handle on.
Every time I restart the computer and bring up Mach Mill, it seems that the software has no idea where the steppers are (and I fully understand this is because it could have been moved while the computer was off and it has no way of knowing this). My method has been to initially jog the machine so that the spindle is in the extreme bottom left of the table limits and the head is up to the high limit. I then ref all of the axis to zero at this point. This seems to work pretty well.
I guess my question is, is this normal? There are still about a billion and one things about Mach3 that I don't know yet
Jason
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