If you use mechanical limit switches for homing on a lathe, unless they are ultra precise and very repeatable, your axis will be off by the deviation.
You should then always take a skim cut on the part and then sent your part zeros from there.
Most commercial machines use a mechanical switch to get it close and then back off of it and look for an encoder index pulse. There are a few drives like DMM DYN4 and DYN2 that will provide the user the index pulse. Emco used to put a sensor on the ball screw pulley to accomplish nearly the same thing.
Marty
Homing & Hard Limit Switches
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Re: Homing & Hard Limit Switches
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