Errors after probing

[Aiph5u (Aiph5u (not affiliated with Onefinity))]

Hey Stan,

@Natick64

I am new with 1F but have had a Shark 4 for a few years. After homing the machine I load the file (simple grid) and I get the Y is over and the X is under the soft limits. I don’t know what to do.

@Natick64

I should give you more information, after homing I load the file and then probe XYZ, it’s then I receive errors regarding the X & Y soft limits being greater or lesser than 0.00mm and the file won’t run. This happens everytime I have tried to run a file.

@Aiph5u

as long as you have not created a g-code toolpath of your own, uploaded and selected it in the machine, and probed or manually set your workpiece zero coordinate, this is not an issue and can (must) be safely ignored.

If you have created a g-code toolpath of your own, uploaded and selected it in the machine, and probed or manually set workpiece zero coordinate, then this error tells you that your g-code toolpath wants the machine to mill outside its workarea, which will in no case go. In this case, either your 3D model is too big, or you’ve probed or set manually your workpiece zero coordinate in the wrong position.

This support document may help you:

• Help! My Toolpath says ‘Under’ or 'Over"! (with videos)

Please be aware that if you have a virtual 3D model that is nearly as big as the workarea of the machine (like a wasteboard flattening toolpath or a wasteboard grid toolpath), you got to probe or manually set your workpiece zero very exactly where it is on the model. A shift by few mm already would make that you intend to mill outside of the machine’s workarea and produce the error you mention.

It is wise to look at the simulation of your toolpath file after having probed of manually set the workpiece zero:

• If connected from remote, the camotics.org 3D toolpath simulation is displayed before and the moving cutter while the program runs:

Image: The 3D toolpath simulation is displayed if the Onefinity Controller is opened in a web browser on a remote computer.

The blue box is the machine’s workspace. Everything outside of this will produce a limits error. The white box is the space where your loaded g-code toolpath program indends to mill. Green lines is where the machine will mill with given feed rate, red lines are where the machine will move rapidly.