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conjured2018
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Homing and setting zero

I work in wood. I have a 4 ft x 4 ft bed on cnc. controller is DDCS V3.

I zero'd mill at near left corner for a long time. Now I zero at x24 y24 inch or dead center of 4 ft by 4ft board. i drill holes first and center is drilled. I then  can use a 1/4 inch drill to position exactly over and into hole if needed. this might be needed if I do not tab in right place and piece comes off and jams mill. this is bad and I go back to measuring both Ys and make same distance. I then can find zero by using drill method.

 

Ok, my issue is I can not home to 24x24. the back feature after home is only 99mm. I have always homed in past and now I cant. Even the left top mill position is not doable with my controller.

 

is there a way to be able to home to center of board? I do see offsets in parameter section of controller. this is a ddcs V3 controller.

 

I want to use homing sensors on x and y to get mill to center board. thank you JR

 

JR

seth.madore
in reply to: conjured2018

This sounds like more of a machine and controller question, and not a Fusion question, unless I'm misunderstanding what you're asking...

Fusion permits setting a work offset anywhere on the part, but that work offset is going to be relative to your machine coordinates. Is it possible for you to adjust the home position at the machine, either mechanically (moving the home switch to permit center of motion homing) or digitally, by adjusting a parameter value, such that when you home it out, the position is now reading X-24 Y-24?


Seth Madore
Customer Advocacy Manager - Manufacturing
conjured2018
in reply to: conjured2018

thank you Seth. I see you are right; machine controller issue. best, JR