jec
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Post by jec on Jul 27, 2021 22:58:22 GMT
I’m new to CNC and recently purchased a MillRight Carve King 2 Mini with the homing kit. My soft over rides will not allow me to move either X or Y beyond a 7.5 inch square work area. I’m under the impression the Mini was capable of a 8” X 9” work area. I have not even tried to execute a cut file yet. I have full control when I jog X Y & Z homing and zeroing is no problem. Is there anyone who could advise me on how to sort out these outer boundaries?
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Post by maikeru on Jul 30, 2021 21:48:53 GMT
Hi Jec, I have no idea if the carve king works the same way as my mega v, but I'm using UGS for the code and in there I have a firmware setup wizard that helps sort out the soft limits. What are you using to set it up?
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Post by kevin on Aug 1, 2021 14:06:55 GMT
If you enter $$ in the command line it will display your settings. If the settings show $20=1 it means Soft Limits are enabled, therefore limiting the size of your cutting area to a smaller area than the machine is capable. You can disable soft limits by changing $20=1 to $20=0. Since you have the homing kit installed, hard limits should be enabled to prevent a crash. If hard limits are enabled the settings should show $21=1. Let me know if this helps.
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jec
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Post by jec on Aug 7, 2021 0:43:31 GMT
I’m using Vertic 2D Desktop and UGS. I did as you suggested and I’m up and running now. Thanks
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Post by gen54 on Sept 5, 2021 20:33:08 GMT
Hi Jec, I have no idea if the carve king works the same way as my mega v, but I'm using UGS for the code and in there I have a firmware setup wizard that helps sort out the soft limits. What are you using to set it up? I also have a Mega V, no an XL...the firmware settings show x and y limits as 900, but the Mega V only does 485 and 500 respectively. Have you reset your firmware limits to these or similar values? After homing the machine, the machine coord system reports x of -895.004, y of -4.992 and z of -5.000 when the gantry is in the back left (home switches at back left i n x and Y plane.) In my mind, machine coords at this point should be more like x is 0, y is 500 and z is 95. Then when I shift the gantry and z axis to a point on the front left of the machine, I would be approaching Machine 0,0,0. I find that I have issue with probing on a part that is relatively tall, say 72 mm and then the homing plate of 12 mm, the bit which is another 39 mm, the sum of which puts me within the 5 mm back off for the home position for z. Then when I run the homing cycle, I have to unlock Z, but when z closes the machine freezes...I have to unlock again and restart homing macro to continue...If I could reset machine coordinates so 0,0,0 would be in the front left corner, then I would be able to predict this height issue before it happens. I also have problems with setting soft limits because the soft limits are positive, but the machine is running in negative y and negative z...so when I turn on soft limits I automatically error because I am already outside of the soft limit allowed area. All this leads me to my question...can I set my $130 and $131 to 485 and 500 respectively for the 19" machine? Can I reset the machine coordinates to reflect front left to be 0,0,0 instead of -895, -524, -101?
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