[Bdi4emc-help] Fw: [Emc-users] How to Home?

Mon Feb 20 18:49:17 CET 2006

This is a thread I originally sent to the emc users group for help, and 
tried what they suggested to no avail.  I have now tried the mini GUI and 
the button for zero axis AND the zero all buttons have no effect.  I would 
really like to be able to "HOME" the machine but it doesn't (no numbers 
turning green) in either TKemc or mini GUI, both tried in manual mode. 
Machine otherwise to this novice user seems to be working ok.

Please help,  thanks, Beau
----- >
>
>> That is very strange indeed.
>> There are a few things that need clarification:
>> 1. what kind of emc are you running?
> BDI 4.3
>> 2. what kind of config are you running?
> PPMC by Jon Elson
>> 3. did you try another GUI (mini instead of tkemc) and does it behave 
>> differently there?
> Nope, not yet
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alex
>>
>>> For some reason that didn't work.  What Jon suggested for right clicking 
>>> to zero an axis seems to work ok, but home did nothing, and yes I was in 
>>> manual mode, tried the other too just for grins.  I have on other 
>>> occations had one or another axis have the numbers turn green when I hit 
>>> the home button, I assuemed that ment it was homed, but none today. 
>>> Wonder what I am doing wrong???
>>>
>>> Tks, Beau
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
>>> To: <emc-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>>> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 9:00 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] How to Home?
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Saturday 28 January 2006 21:43, Beau Beaufait wrote:
>>>>>Ok, I have the spindle setting near the center of the travel x,y,z.
>>>>> and I boot up EMC.  Now I can jog the table over to what I would call
>>>>> the "home" position, but of course the TKEMC screen reads not 0.00
>>>>> but some number.
>>>>>
>>>>>First question; how do I initialize the screen to read all zeros.
>>>>> Second, how do I make EMC think is is home.  I see the "home" button
>>>>> but it doesn't seem to do much when I click it.
>>>>
>>>> If you are in the manual mode (function key F3), then clicking on the
>>>> home button should zero the axis outlined on the tkemc screen.  You can
>>>> click on the various axis's displays to select them for homeing.  emc
>>>> should then calculate and display all motions of that axis from that
>>>> point until you re-home them.  This does not work in the auto (F4) mode
>>>> where it can execute a gcode script, nor in the mdi (F5) mode where you
>>>> can enter the desired motions from the keyboard.
>>>>>
>>>>>Need some learning here.
>>>>
>>>> Yup, we users all do.
>>>>
>>>>>Thanks, Beau
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Cheers Beau, Gene
>>>> People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word
>>>> 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
>>>> stupid bounce rules.  I do use spamassassin too. :-)
>>>> Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
>>>> message by Gene Heskett are:
>>>> Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>>> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log 
>>>> files
>>>> for problems?  Stop!  Download the new AJAX search engine that makes
>>>> searching your log files as easy as surfing the  web.  DOWNLOAD SPLUNK!
>>>> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Emc-users mailing list
>>>> Emc-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log 
>>> files
>>> for problems?  Stop!  Download the new AJAX search engine that makes
>>> searching your log files as easy as surfing the  web.  DOWNLOAD SPLUNK!
>>> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Emc-users mailing list
>>> Emc-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log 
>> files
>> for problems?  Stop!  Download the new AJAX search engine that makes
>> searching your log files as easy as surfing the  web.  DOWNLOAD SPLUNK!
>> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642
>> _______________________________________________
>> Emc-users mailing list
>> Emc-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
>>
> 