Hi.

My name is Ed and I'm new to CNC machining. I own a Sherline 5400 mill (and a long bed Sherline lathe) and have just converted them both to CNC. I have a DeepGrove1, 4 axis controller box with Gecko 540's and 270oz nema 23 motors. I'm running Mach 3 and Mill Wizard. I also have a Soigeneris SSENC-1 Ethernet SmoothStepper System as well.

My question is this. Being new to CNC (translation: I know very little), I've heard that on these smaller mils/Lathes, that you don't need to put Homing Switches on then, but you can use Soft limits to setup your machine coordinates. Is that so? I have my mill's motors on, have gone through doing my "Motor Tuning, and now I'm ready to setup soft limits. Could someone familiar with a Sherline setup like mine, provide me with a little help completing mine? I've read the Mach 3 pdf, and watched a bunch of video's about it, but they don't relate to my setup. I'd really appreciate it.

According to the Sherline Mill's site, my mill's travel spec's are as follow': • X axis Travel: 8.68" • Y axis Travel; 5.00" • Z axis Travel: 6.25

Thank you.

-Ed/emojo5