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Thanks guys. That's the info I need. Although the drives are enabled by default, I am looking to disable them when required.

I am using a DB25 interface for my stepper motor outputs. While using this are the enable outputs on H2 and H3 still active to use?

If so are the active high or low for enabled?

Thanks, I understand. Still be nice to just have that assigned to a button.

Recently upgraded to latest version of CNC12. I know this was an issue before. I am getting strange characters showing up near the text field in MDI when I am typing. 20240409_131749_HDR.jpg I had this before in a previous version but it was on a different screen. The characters were changing as I t...

I guess I am not understanding this completely. I understand the machine configuration such as for the motors is set as rev/in., etc. I assume when a program is written with G21 that CNC12 must scale everything to match the configuration. I can run metric programs now and everything works fine it's ...

Sorry, I forgot. Is there a concern you are seeing with this?

Yes they are.
I did the calculations and verified physically on the machine when I first commissioned it. It was bang on.
I haven't had any issues running 5000. The machine actually runs very well and has lots of torque through all speeds.

Never thought of that. I more concerned with format. If a program is in G21, knowing that, I would like to visualize the coordinates in metric. I am not really worried about changing the actual base machine into metric.

So I guess the answer is just the DRO

I may be asking a very simple question which is covered somewhere else but I would like to add a button to the VCP to allow switching units between imperial and metric on the DRO.

Can this be done?

The stepper motor drive system come from Avid CNC. That's the first thing everyone mentions is the turns ratio but they run great