So, where do I stand so that I’m facing the “front” of my LR4?
Do I stand on the side of the table with the rail? opposite? at the short end facing the front of the core? the back? help! why is this hard for me? lol
Now that I’ve found the front, I assume if I jog motors, it should move in the direction the arrows are pointing, yes?
Thanks so much in advance for curing my ignorance!
The front is with gantry in front of you, with the X axis facing you, and the rail on the right side. X minimum (X-) is to the left, X max (X+) to the right. Y min (Y-) is near you, and Y max (Y+) is away.
absolute hero. Thank you!!
Surely Doug that depends on whether you want a larger X or a larger Y.
Providing X+ is moving to your right and Y+ is moving away from you you are cutting in positive space and your gcode software will be right
Z+ raises the cutter up away from the table
jogging to the right and up should move the gantry in the positive directions.
While both set ups are essentially the same it is sometimes more convenient to stand at and/or place the machine in the other orientation.
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Certainly “virtually” rotating the table and switching which corner you home to is doable, as I have done it on both LR3 and LR4. It’s also referred to as swapping the X and Y. However, the original question was about the orientation as is, with an inference that he was asking about the stock orientation. LowRider v4 introduced a built-in set of options for moving the limit switch on the core from the left side to the right for homing to a non-standard location, as well as the YZ side assemblies having the option for moving the limit switch from the front to the back for homing to a non-standard location. So it’s become more doable than ever to change the homing position, in departure from the stock, standard, normal way of doing it, but for simplicity of support, there is still one setup that is considered stock or regular.
