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  1. #1
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    Exclamation Mach3 is moving in the opposite direction

    I am newbie in the CNC field and I made my first cut yesterday. Although it was successful I had to go opposite direction of what I was planning too, that rewind my material as it was cut in a random place. I used a DXF file on CamBam to generate the tool path, then the gcode and Mach3to run it. When I am on Mach3, I go left with the left arrow Mach3 goes right and vise versa. Is this normal or I have a problem in the hardware or there is a setting in Mach3 that I missed? I am using Sherline CNC Mill

    Thanks

  2. #2
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    When you click the left arrow, which way does the table move?

    You can reverse the direction of an axis in Config > Homing/Limits, check the "Reverse" column.
    Gerry

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  3. #3
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    Thanks for your reply. The bed goes left when i press the left arrow. However, the axis itself on the screen goes right

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    Cool

    Quote Originally Posted by ger21 View Post
    When you click the left arrow, which way does the table move?

    You can reverse the direction of an axis in Config > Homing/Limits, check the "Reverse" column.
    Found the problem. I didn't configure the Post processor in CamBam to Mach3. It was using Default. Now it is working fine.

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