On the LR32 I’ve set up the frame so that it can work with 15 to 40 inch lengths in 5" increments. I’ve got an art template that shows where those lengths are so I can drop the actual artwork in the right place before creating the DXF.
What I’d like to do is change where the probing happens so that if I’m working a 15" long slab it doesn’t probe way back at the machine Y home which is near the 40" mark.
Wait a minute…Now I’m thinking maybe I should change up the way I’m using this machine and should be working starting at Y-0 not running all the way back up to the machine Y Max…
How does everyone here use thier Lowriders? Do you load your material at the Y-0?
This is interesting. I guess it’s because of how I built the Bumble that I associated the back left as my “material load point”. The bumble is so small that it doesn’t really matter. But on a larger machine that’s not the same case. Had I built a full sheet machine I imagine I would have come to this realization much earlier.
I used a MPCNC, not LR, so not sure if it’s much different, but I never bothered with placing the material in a specific spot. I always just jogged to the bottom left point of my material and set that as X0Y0 before starting my cut.
I think the MPCNC is also partly why I was using the LRs this way actually. I would always move the gantry back and to the left to load the material because that forward right direction was where the router “presented” itself. But then I’d do the same as you - in my case using the adjustable endstops to set where the corner of the material was for that task.
