Soft alarm, cant figure it out

Good morning.

I did the dry run, no errors.
I did speed up homing, had no problems before. I’ll try and see if it makes a difference.
Origin is always bottom left. (fusion / Lightburn)
Did a remeasure of the touch-block, no difference.

I have a new project tonight, see what happens. Homing still doesn’t read 0.
So if that gives a soft alarm again, I’ll set it to zero at homing and see what happens.

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Thanx for you’re answer!

Origin is bottom left. Therefor I don’t understand why at the MASSO readings are not zero. This is probably due to the fact that homing doesn’t zero.

I looked at your printable settings file again and the screenshots you provided.
The screen image after homing shows your machine coordinate values are not zero (as we have noted) but what is interesting is that all three are exactly half the value of the maximum travel for all three axes.

I did not see anything in your settings related to homing that would explain this. I would ask these questions on the Masso forum - if you have not done so already - as solving the non-zero MCS DROs is in my opinion a first step. As an aside, their support will want the gcode and printable settings file.

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Hmmm good point.
I’ll take it to the MASSO forum and see what they have to say about it.
I have another project tonight, let’s see what it does. Before I had no issues with soft alarms. I will let you know. Also if any answer comes from MASSO forum.

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I had a similar situation once. I had increased the steps per rotation value from factory 400 PPR to 800 pulses per revolution on the motors dip switches, and had a reason to reload the factory settings which of course I’d forgotten reset the PPR back to 400 on the F1 page (oops!). I could only get about 1/2 the distance (surprise) out of my axis. Once I realized the factory settings did not mirror what I had changes to, I reset the PPRs for each motor back to 800 and all the dimensions then worked correctly. Hopefully my story might lead you look in that direction.

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Good time to apply the service bulletin we announced yesterday:

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Hi Jim, thank you for answer.
I will look into that. Have it posted on the MASSO form and will per instructions upload my files.

Did a project just now with my 44 watt Jtech laser and after homing (no zero) set my zero at the origin of the work piece, no problems

Also did a dry run on another project in wood with the spindle, after homing (no zero) I zeroed out on the origin of the work piece, no problems there either.

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Gijs,

As an after-thought, there is also an option on the F1 page, if you double tap the Homing button, there is a pull off position (nominally set to 0.04000) and a home position that should be zeros all the way across, that might be your problem.

Hi Jim,
Had a look at it and it all seems fine there,

Answer from MASSO: The MCS DROs are correct for immediately after homing, as you have Auto Tool Zero turned ON.

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Did a new test last night, remarkable results :face_with_spiral_eyes:
First:


Lightburn file. I believe setup is good, origin also. 48x48 inch.
Second:

This is how it is loaded into MASSO. saved it on a USB as .nc with generate G-code in Lightburn. Look at the position?
Thirt:


this in dry run mode. It follows the path as shown in the second picture.
Fourth:

No dry run. It follows the path as designed in Lightburn.

No soft alarms here. But I have the same issue with a design of 900mm width which gives me a soft alarm on x axis.

So might it have something to do with the way it loads the files into MASSO?