Owner`s manual

MaxMotion for Machines Chapter 1-19
familiarize with the section III of the Machine Setup. You can get to
Machine Setup by pulling down the File menu in MaxMotion.
You can select left switch or right switch or both the switches. Left
and right are selection boxes and either or both can be selected at the
same time. Click on the box to select it and click again on the box to
deselect it. The left and right switches provide logic level change on
pins 1 and 14 of the parallel port when the tool goes to the starting
position of the job. Typical uses of these signals are Z axis down and up
movement for air actuated Z axis in the engraving machines and
turning on and off of the coolant in CNC machinery, etc. Spindle
motor signal controls pin 16 of the parallel port. If pin 16 is con-
nected to the spindle motor actuation, it can turn on and off either at the
time the tool starts from or goes back to the home position or when the
tool goes to the starting position of the job. A value of one second is
declared in the initialization file for the spindle motor to come to
desired speed before penetrating the material. This value can be
changed.
It is real easy to declare your working area of your machine for your
model and it will remember the value. The declaration is simply in
inches or millimeters. You can declare different sizes for the different
machines you might have in your facility and MaxMotion will remem-
ber all the sizes. Select any other machine in the machine selection area
and you will notice that the table area will change, if indeed it is
different. The table set up does not require periodic changing. However,
if you are using a different plate size, you can easily change the plate
size without changing the table size.
Users like flexibility in selecting a starting point for the job. Now, you
can start the job from any of the six positions:
Upper left
Lower left
Upper right
Lower right
Center
Top center
Click on the down arrow next to Start from box and select your
required position.