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See the light blue star on your screenshot?
That is active offsets.
In Axis GUI you can choose to show offsets, i do not use Probe Basic so i do not know how to show them.

Standard would be the normal TB6600 and above up to huge servo drives, self contained in a box for each axis.
The 3D printer ones or step sticks are ... well for 3D printers, useless without their respective boards, very prone to interference, and some will just fail by touching them at certain conditions. Yes, TMC are pretty good, but using stealth chop or another such feature (forgot the name) is clearly stated to cause small positioning errors, so for anything vaguely precise should be avoided or used without those features active.
As luck would have it, there are step sticks with TB67S109 chips, i have some, found out i never need to push 3.5A on a 3D printer!

I don't follow. I have no offsets in use.

I don't have homing switches on this machine, it homes off absolute encoders from the servos. But I don't see why that matters here? The machine is homed and G53 is properly referenced to all the axis limits. The work envelope displayed is correct, as is the location of the tool within the work envelope. G54 is my work offset and is in an arbitrary position in the center of my work envelope (middle of the air here for testing code). The code I loaded is being mapped onto the G53 origin rather than the G54 origin that the code is calling and the machine has active.

Code should always respect the correct origin called, G54 in this case.

Does the machine have home switches?
If yes, home the machine then touch off each axis/joint in G54.
There are active offsets in use, remove those first, see if that puts things where they should be.

Move the Z axis by hand towards the spindle a bit, then power on and try homing.
If that does not work, use a DVM to check the wiring from the Z axis switch to parallel port 0 (the built in parallel port in the motherboard, not the add on one)

No, what I have is a 7i96. Somehow I found wiring directly to it very awkward with my DIY mill. It's possible that that was because of the poorly designed stepper driver board I was using -- it's connections were hard to manage.

I did find an Arduino shield that does what I want and has screw terminals for all connections. And I think I can probably use it almost as is, simply by not plugging it on to an Arduino. Still thinking about that.

When you say "standard" stepper drivers, can you show me an example, including how they're typically mounted? It's true my head is probably stuck in the CNC toy world.

paul

This is getting to be a 911 issue as I’ve got to get this machine running. I can’t move forward without it. I need to Groove the baseball bat to get them to the MLB, we’re gonna be grooving dolls down to drumsticks, etc. Absolutely appreciate your assistance. How do you find a CNC tech in the Chicagoland area that knows Linux 2.5? So far nobody.

Thank you cake! That actually cleared things up more than a little. I managed to figured out what that .not was for on the end so maybe that's a plus.

Still have the Emergency Stop button on Axis freezing after a trigger and neither mouse or [F1] will reset it. I am thinking that I had read some posts back that someone else was experiencing the same thing and was thinking it was Axis related?

Not letting that stop me from moving forward and next comes the probe. If I were to take a SWAG at it, how close does this come?

Am I on the right track?

50 hz is inferior to 60Hz b/c transformers, motors, etc. need to be bigger and more expensive.

Was this from chatGPT?
The only valid difference is the induction motors spin faster at 60Hz, everything else is pretty much irrelevant.