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I'm attempting to find a solution to squaring the gantry on a AVID CNC CRP4824. The 424 does not have a gantry squaring feature so I have thought of two options:

1. Using LUA I would have to un-map the two Y stepper motors Y1, and Y2, Move them both to Y home waiting for both proximity sensors to trip and then once this is complete, establish a machine home and re-map the two motors back to the Y axis. Am I missing anything?

2. (Current method) where I move the axis manually to a known alignment fixture. This is only an eyeball method and works "okay" now.

Does anyone have any better methods? I'm digging into the LUA code base and it could take some time to get a working script.

Thank you

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Greetings,

I have finally been able to get to work on my CNC machine after nearly a year. It's all wired in and ready to go however my mach 4 hobby build refuses to communicate to my pmdx-424. I've tried two different cables and all the USB ports.

I looked on the device driver and I see the Intel(R) Active Management Technology SOL(Com3) which according to the manual in support means I have to send you a debug file so sent it to PMDX.

I am thinking that My Altera quartusII  FPGA software driver took over this port and is using it instead of Mach 4 (I am using the usb blaster)  Could this be mistakenly thinking the PMDX-424 is a usb blaster?

That's all I can think of at the moment.  Has anyone else had this issue? If so what fixed it?

Here is an overview of my setup:

I am running an AVID CNC 48x24 standard kit with nema23 steppers. The PMDX 424 is hooked up to 4 DM5565 Leadshine stepper drivers
When turned on the PMDX424 has three amber LED lights on the board that light up, the red LED is solid while the green LED blinks at a 2 second interval.

I made sure to install the smartBOB usb drivers before plugging it in as per the instructions.

Thank you for the help.

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