Centroid Community CNC Support Forum

All,
Thank you for the replies. This was kind of dumb of me, but if anyone is in the same situation, the fix is just to jog before you have homed. Then you can jog anywhere.

Regards,
Chris

Hello, There is a button called "Limit switch defeat" on the standard skin. My limit switches are also my home switches and are set up as inputs FirstAxisHomeOK etc.etc. I needed to, just one time, jog past the limit switch to find the new location for the "finger" that triggers ...

As someone with a welded base and no CNC to lay out all the holes for the rails and plates (chicken and egg problem), and as much as I'd like to say that my beloved optical centerpunch is perfect, I am really looking forward to this. I hope I can just throw on my 12" $40 amazon granite plate ag...

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Thabk youso much cncKeith! Also, changing axisNLimitOK to axisNHome worked. I believe the brake issue got taken care of, it disables on first jog now. As a personal update, tool touch off, ATC, limits and probing all working! Still lots to do (enclosure and coolant, macros for quickly finding center...

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