Issues initializng machine

[SkyLeopard (matt)]

Hi,

I finished up the build recently and have started trying to initialize the machine. I have a shapeoko 3.

When it tries to home the zaxis just goes down a certain distance then I get grbl error 10. Can not find limit switches, something along those lines (The initializing fails and no other axes are tried it just stops and spits out the error) I cant seem to figure out whats causing it. I waved a piece of metal in front of all the induction switches and their LEDs lit up. (both on the board and on the limit switch itself for all 3 axes)

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Julien]

You probably need to “send configuration” from the Settings menu, with the correct info for your Z axis type ?

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Note that this is a two-step process, see:

Setting Grbl Configuration in CM 517 and later

Carbide Motion 517 uses a new system for setting Travel Dimensions which is potentially confusing: [image] Pressing the Load Defaults button takes one to a window which allows one to select first machine size: [image] and then Z-axis type: [image] after which selection the Travel Dimensions for the selections made are entered into the dialog and will be preserved if one clicks “Ok” (and of course that change discarded if one selects “Cancel”). In addition there is a “Send Configuration…

[SkyLeopard (matt)]

I see. Thanks that did the trick. I was a little too eager to get going and missed that step in the manual. Thanks!