Is there a way to send the table home? - Pirate4x4.Com : 4x4 and Off-Road Forum

toreadorxlt · 05-11-2012, 07:40 AM

I can't quite seem to find a home button withing the torchmate software. I feel like there should be an easy way to send the table to a previously defined 0,0... I can jog it there and get it really really close if not dead on most times, but Is there a home feature that I just can't find....it's probably staring me in the face.

-Steve

PWS Tech · 05-11-2012, 08:03 AM

Version 4.0.47 has a Home button that brings up the Home Axis menu where you can set a X & Y zero point and use the Seek command.

jatepper · 05-11-2012, 09:33 AM

Once you set and zero your machine coordinates, you can got to Point>Machine Zero. It will move the gantry to the defined machine zero coordinates. Or, if your "home" is your program zero, just do Point>Program Zero.

I'm running an older version of the driver program, but I would guess the newer one is pretty similar in regard to this.

toreadorxlt · 05-11-2012, 10:50 AM

thanks both of you... ill search for these buttons.

Richie_Rich · 05-11-2012, 11:21 PM

Make sure you zero the machine coordinates before jogging the torch to the program zero point. If you forget and leave them blank, the machine does not know where machine zero is.

North Shore Fab · 05-12-2012, 09:05 AM

what kind of table is this? if its anything other then a GS have you installed hard stops?

05-11-2012, 07:40 AM	#1 (permalink)
toreadorxlt Registered User Join Date: May 2004 Member # 31009 Posts: 25	Is there a way to send the table home? I can't quite seem to find a home button withing the torchmate software. I feel like there should be an easy way to send the table to a previously defined 0,0... I can jog it there and get it really really close if not dead on most times, but Is there a home feature that I just can't find....it's probably staring me in the face. -Steve

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PWS Tech Registered User Join Date: Apr 2012 Member # 215917 Location: Tacoma WA Posts: 24	Version 4.0.47 has a Home button that brings up the Home Axis menu where you can set a X & Y zero point and use the Seek command. Last edited by PWS Tech; 05-11-2012 at 08:03 AM.

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jatepper Registered User Join Date: Mar 2011 Member # 185144 Posts: 581	Once you set and zero your machine coordinates, you can got to Point>Machine Zero. It will move the gantry to the defined machine zero coordinates. Or, if your "home" is your program zero, just do Point>Program Zero. I'm running an older version of the driver program, but I would guess the newer one is pretty similar in regard to this. __________________ TM2 4x8 w/Integrated H20 table, AVTHC, Hypertherm Powermax 65 Semper Fi! 1999-2004 Last edited by jatepper; 05-11-2012 at 09:33 AM.

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05-11-2012, 10:50 AM	#4 (permalink)
toreadorxlt Registered User Join Date: May 2004 Member # 31009 Posts: 25	thanks both of you... ill search for these buttons.

05-11-2012, 11:21 PM	#5 (permalink)
Richie_Rich Registered User Join Date: Apr 2011 Member # 188229 Location: St. Charles, MO Posts: 245	Make sure you zero the machine coordinates before jogging the torch to the program zero point. If you forget and leave them blank, the machine does not know where machine zero is.

05-12-2012, 09:05 AM	#6 (permalink)
North Shore Fab Rock God Join Date: Mar 2011 Member # 184847 Posts: 1,129	what kind of table is this? if its anything other then a GS have you installed hard stops?