Enable Homing in Carbide Motion

Intro#
The take advantage of the homing switches on your Shapeoko CNC
router, homing will need to be enabled in the machine control
software Carbide Motion.

Depending on the version of Carbide Motion you are using, the

instructions vary.

Carbide Motion v3 (GRBL v1.0)#

This is a two step process

Step 1
To enable homing on your Shapeoko, you’ll need to turn homing on
through the MDI that talks to GRBL. 

1. Open Carbide Motion

2. Connect to your machine
3. Bring up the MDI prompt (press the MDI button)
4. type $22=1 to enable homing, press the Send button to write the
change
Step 2
**To Activate the Homing Cycle and Enable Rapid Positioning options in
Carbide Motion**

In the Settings window on line 1005 Shapeoko has Homing:

Click to make the value TRUE 

Setting Table Dimensions**
Shapeoko XL
For XL Shapeoko machines the Table Dimensions should be set to   850 X and
430 Y

Shapeoko XXL
For XXL Shapeoko machines the Table Dimensions should be set to 850 X and
850 Y

Tips
1. To start the homing sequence again, go to the MDI and type $h,
then press Send.
2. On XL and XXL machines, consider increasing the homing speed
Goto the MDI and enter $25=1500 then click send

Carbide Motion v4 (GRBL v1.1)#

NOTE: To learn more about using Carbide Motion v4 and GRBL v1.1,
head over to the Carbide Updater page.
Homing is enabled by default in Carbide Motion v4. But if this is your first
time using v4, you will need to upload your settings.

1. Goto the Settings menu by clicking the SETTINGS button in the top

menu bar.
2. Click Open Log, which will open a browser window. This will allow you
to see the progress.
3. Click back to Carbide Motion, then select your machine size from
the dropdown menu under SETTINGS.
4. Click SEND CONFIG DATA.

In the log window you should see some action, clicking HIDE FROM will filter
the log to only show commands sent to the controller. You should see
several commands preceeded by a $.
When the commands have finished scrolling on the screen, you are
finished and can close the log window.

To initialize the homing sequence, click the JOG menu.

Sequence#
Once homing is activated and the sequence is called, your machine will
do the following

1. Z-axis will move up (in the positive direction) until the switch is

contacted. The Z-axis will then back off slightly before re-engaging
the switch and then backing off for a final time and setting the Z-
axis to machine origin ― this will display as Z=−5 (the 5mm away
from the machine origin that the machine backs off after homing)
until an origin is set
2. The X and Y axis will begin to move ― the X moving to the right
(positive direction) and the Y moving back (the positive direction)
3. The X and Y will continue to move until one of their switches is
triggered, at which time they will follow the same pattern as the Z-
axis ― touch the end, back off, re-engage, and then back off again. 
4. When all 3 axes have homed, your readout in Carbide Motion will
be set to −5,−5,−5 (or 0,0,0, or some other set of values which
shows the offset from the working zero) and your machine will be
in the back right corner.