Axis direction is the direction the cutter moves through the work on a Cartesian coordinate system. For moving gantry machines it is literal but for table motion machines it can be confusing because it's inverse of what one might expect (if thinking the table is what is traveling in the + or - direction. When the table moves toward the front, the cutter is moving in the y+ direction through the work, when the table moves to the left it is the x+ direction because the cutter moves through the work in the positive direction. So setup your machine accordingly. Home should be 0's, if your switches are on the wrong side you can use the home offset setting to correct.
