Quote Originally Posted by keithorr
Doesn't matter. If he had softlimits set up and had zeroed the machine at the beginning of the session, the crash would not have occured. Mach would have thrown an error message and not allowed the machine to move at all. No move, no vise crash, no nothing. It looks ahead; does not wait until it is at the limit to stop the machine. Proactive, not reactive.
Lets pile on Keith while he is out sailing.


I just enabled soft limits in PCNC rev. 3.12b and did a few tests. With the machined homed ( Positive in all 3 axis )After ensuring that the soft limits worked while jogging I typed G1 Y-100.00 F3 in the MDI and Y started moving in the Y- direction. I let it go and it went all the way to the soft limit and stopped.

It did not look ahead and throw an error message. It was reactive not proactive.


Added- I just ran some g-code from file and it did error out and throw a soft limit warning before moving.

Is this how your machine acts Randy ? Or did I set my button up incorrectly ?

Or maybe the Tormach Flavor of Mach3 acts differently ?


Scott