[wellbuiltcabs]

Hello all, my name is Wal and I am a newbie to cnc. I posted some pictures of my 24X 36 machine and my mach3 setup screenshots for anyone who can help me with this. I also have the same problem with circle g-code that comes with mach3 download turns into an oval on my machine. My machine has very strange behaviour right now. When I press ref x diagnostics page the machine moves in the y direction. I have a Dyna1000 and the led indicates that Y is moving but the dro shows X increasing in the positive direction from machine 0,0. When I reference Y in the diag page, The dro indicates that Y is moving in the positive direction but the machine itself does not move at all. And when I press soft limits (set to 23,0 for x and 35,0 for y and a and z to 0,3) the machine says that I am out of softlimits for softlimit activation. Thank you all in advance for helping a newbie.

[ger21]

Sounds like your pins are setup wrong.

[Korellibopper]

If the machine is moving towards the positive direction that means after it is home all movement from the home position will be negative.

If you are homeing to the back right corner.

try changing the numbers to negatives.

[neilw20]

Try this link.
It covers most, if not all of your problems.
And will save reinventing the wheel.
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49759

A detailed setup sequence can be found at post#13 in this thread.
See how you go. :cheers: