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slodat wrote: ↑Mon Jan 14, 2019 9:45 am If your input is normally open, wire the fixed and moveable in parallel to the same input. If it’s normally closed, wire them in series. This is what I did and it works great with the macro posted. I don’t have a probe installed yet.

Thank you, I will give that a try.

martyscncgarage wrote: ↑Mon Jan 14, 2019 9:14 am What is a "Z movable Z touch off plate"?
Can you provide a picture and or a link to the manual?

Standard Moveable Z Touch Plate.

hello. with all the different types of probes out there as you might imagine there are MANY combinations that can be used. here is a guide to help sort out probe setup with Acorn CNC12 Note: on the next CNC12 release the Acorn setup Wizard will automatically take care of all of this buy simply answ...

When using metric, remember you are setting unit per rev (mm/rev) compared to the reverse for Imperial - revs per unit (revs / inch). Therefore when working in metric, if distance commanded is greater than actual travel you need to reduce mm/rev setting not increase it. Marty's excellent downloadab...

Thank you both. I have watched Marty's video multiple times. Gary - What if I'm working in mm only. So in the interim I did some testing. I'm using a digital dial indicator. With those setting noted above I Zero'd the axis and moved 5mm. If the result was say 4.98 I would change the 5 to the 4.98 an...

Hello All. I hope my question is simple. I've been running Acorn for about 2 months now with good success. I really thought everything was fine until yesterday. I made a part that should have been 300 x 120, and came out to 301.74 and 120.32 respectively.I tried to adjust my turns per mm, and that's...

Thanks again, I got this sorted out, and this info on how to modify the M commands will be helpful in the future.

Thank you, I will try and see if I can get it. I at least now understand the methodology for how these changes are made.

Thanks again, greatly appreciated!

Hi All - New user here. Everything has been going well, and I am up and running. Limit Switches, Motors Tuned, Probe Works, and I've made many parts already. Tonight after having my spindle completely manually operated, I decided to have Acorn control my VFD. Success again. However, Acorn starts to ...