I tried using a program called deskengrave on my vertical cnc mill and the text came out mirrored and upside down however it shows correct in mach3. I looked it up online and someone said it could be that its jogging the wrong direction . Im not sure which way the machine should move.I am a confused newb.

Right now when i jog x left the table moves left ,tool goes right .Is that correct?

Does the direction it jogs manually matter when the program is running automatically? How can i tell if my machine is moving the correct way when running a gcode?

When i home the table moves towards me in the Y and table moves to the right in the x. so the tool moves to the left and to the back.