[ger21]

Curious why you have it set up so that all the coordinates are negative?

The reason you can't jog in the Y- direction is because you're home position is already at the limit of your soft limits, at -27.5. How far do you want to be able to move (from home) in the Y- direction? If you want to move 10", then change the softlimits to -37.5.

It's hard to tell in the pic, but it looks like if the router mover right along the gantry, that would be X+. Do you have Y- moving towards me in the pic?

[Mr.Chips]

Curious why you have it set up so that all the coordinates are negative?

The reason you can't jog in the Y- direction is because you're home position is already at the limit of your soft limits, at -27.5. How far do you want to be able to move (from home) in the Y- direction? If you want to move 10", then change the softlimits to -37.5.

It's hard to tell in the pic, but it looks like if the router mover right along the gantry, that would be X+. Do you have Y- moving towards me in the pic?

The table is in the XYZ home position now.
The cut area in the Y axis is 27.5". So I want the table to move 27.5" in the - direction.
I added the Axis and direction on the photo. Possibly this will help you.

[Greolt]

It is perfectly reasonable to have the machine hit home switches in the position shown but you have your Y axis pos and neg around the wrong way.

Change that by reversing the Y in "homing and limits"

Then set the "home off" amounts to, X 0 and Y 27.5

Get that right and get your head around it before progressing to setting up soft limits.

Which will be something like X 0-19 and Y 0- 27.5

Greg

EDIT: Oh yeah you also must set the Y to seek home in the positive direction

[Mr.Chips]

It is perfectly reasonable to have the machine hit home switches in the position shown but you have your Y axis pos and neg around the wrong way.

Change that by reversing the Y in "homing and limits"

Then set the "home off" amounts to, X 0 and Y 27.5

Get that right and get your head around it before progressing to setting up soft limits.

Which will be something like X 0-19 and Y 0- 27.5

Greg

EDIT: Oh yeah you also must set the Y to seek home in the positive direction

I think I changed it like you suggested see photos, shut Mach down and restarted and with it set like that the Reference all Home still works but I can no longer activate the "Soft Limits" button.

My head hurts, wrapping too much I guess.

Most people use a movable gantry and I have a movable table, like a milling machine, this may be the confusion???