Hello Shapeoko Forum dwellers -
I was hoping my second post would be contributory in nature… I will eventually post up some easy liberties/tweaks I made when assembling my XXL, but for now I’m trying to get past my newbish’ness when it comes to basic machine operation.
As background, I’m all-up assembled and have run the proverbial “Hello World” Sharpie drawing… all was functional in scale and operation.
As my next exercise however, I thought I’d try general jogging and homing ops in CM. From what I’ve read, HOME on a Shapeoko3 is at the upper right corner (X,Y) when standing at the front, and Z at the “full-up” position. These same locations are where all my limit switches will actuate as well.
When I jog my machine however, the movement seems “backwards”. In my mind (+) movements should move AWAY from Home (0,0) and (-) movements should move TOWARD Home. Instead, my jogging moves as follows (oriented from the front of the machine):
X+ = from Left to Right
Y+ = from Front to Rear
Z+ = Upward
Furthermore, when I enable HOMING (placing everything effectively at Center) and then start it, the X-Axis starts moving from Right to Left, opposite from where Home is defined. It eventually stopped, and then CM throws a “GRBL Error : Setting Disabled” dialog.
I can post up my $$ settings if required (I’ve actually got an email into support), but thought I’d reach out here as well for communal support.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.