Has anyone setup a Shapeoko 3 XXL?

MillMage Hardware Compatibility Shapeoko
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Trying to get it setup correctly. Using GRBL. Can’t get the Positioning to work properly. Jog works OK, but when i attempt to move to a specific X,Y location, the head goes to X0, Y0. When I Home it, it goes to X=-3, Y=-3 (which is the correct location). Also, trying to understand the machine “Home” location which is Upper Right-hand corner (-3,-3) and where the material Home would be, which is about -800, -800. How do I get the axis coordinates flipped so the coordiantes aren’t negative? It’s completely reversed from Carbide Motion.

TIA!!
Andy

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I think I figured it out. I had to set the Material Home as 0,0, then it seemed to work…mostly. Still having trouble with the Position tab not moving the the specified location. It’s hit & miss for me. It’ll work just fine, then stop responding. Probably need some custom gCode injected somewhere. Any thoughts?

Thx,
Andy

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There is no Fix Intermittent GCode command. Check for loose connections or USB communication issues.

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Thanks Mikey. I think it was a n00b to concept issue. I figured it out after a little more experimentation.

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sorry. extreme noob here. where is Material Home? i am so frustrated I just updated and instead of cutting I’m troubleshooting

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Not sure what you mean here. Any chance you can say it i different way?

This sounds like you should start your own Thread and delete this posting. There you can tell us what problems you are having.

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The question about material home is from the “solution” in a previous post of this thread. I don’t know what material home is, or where to adjust it. I don’t see anything with that name

"I think I figured it out. I had to set the Material Home as 0,0, then it seemed to work…mostly. Still having trouble with the Position tab not moving the the specified location. It’s hit & miss for me. It’ll work just fine, then stop responding. Probably need some custom gCode injected somewhere. Any thoughts?

Thx,
Andy"

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If you say what controller you have, someone that has that one may have useful information about it.

My CNC has a small table, so there is never a reason to use anything other than Absolute Coords. That makes it easy to map the MillMage grid to the machine table.