Help with homing mesa 7i76

I have 3 home switches on my mill and they appear to work OK. I would like to change the HAL and or INI files to make them do home with min limit for x and y and home with max limit for z.

I have setup soft limits for all axis. I have tried to do this with PnCConf but it seems very buggy. What changes to the ini and hal files do I need to change

linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/config/ini-homing.html

JT

BigJohnT wrote: linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/config/ini-homing.html

JT

John thanks. I have read that many times and I have the mill homing ok but just setup as home But I want to set up as home + min_limit.

It is the modifications in the HAL and INI files I need to achieve this

I'm not really sure what your wanting to do but it sounds like you want to have the home position off the switch by a small amount? The easiest way would be to change your ini settings. If that is correct then you need to set your HOME_OFFSET for the axis.

JT

BigJohnT wrote: I'm not really sure what your wanting to do but it sounds like you want to have the home position off the switch by a small amount? The easiest way would be to change your ini settings. If that is correct then you need to set your HOME_OFFSET for the axis.

JT

What I am trying to achieve is I want to use the same switch for homing and min limit. ie shared I had this working before using the pp. But now I have a 5i25 + 7176 comb and using PnCConf. But PnCConf has a bug in it that does not allow me to setup up shared homing etc.

I am asking for some sample lines of code (say for the X axis) that I need to add to the HAL file to change it from homing to shared with min limit.

Thanks

Just set the HOME_IGNORE_LIMITS to YES and you can use the limit switch as the home switch too. I need to finish my 5i25 configurator thingy...

JT