Originally Posted by
Adobe Machine
is there any particular advantage to having X and Z axis "home" ?
If you have many programs that you wish to use over and over I would say that if you have a zero position initially then you don't have to go to the bother of setting a ref manually, also it probabally depends on how you customarily write programs.
Someone like Hu may give you a more definitive answer from a machinist point of view.
Al.
CNC, Mechatronics Integration and Custom Machine Design
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