[QUOTE=Doddy;119103]I'm not at my machine at the moment, and barely remember this - but can you not set the axis to, after homing, traverse to a fixed offset (within the working envelope, and within the desired soft limit). E.g. home to zero, move to 12, with a soft-limit of 10?

Just tried that Doddy and when the machine backs off after going home it only goes to the softlimit value - so would work if back off and softlimit was set the same.

John. Softlimits prevent machine going past the limits to prevent a crash and (on my set up at least) home switches don't limit movement when jogging.

If you look in configuration - Axis Setup for each axis there is a back off units box - set this value and when homing the axis will move back by te set value - make sure you set it positive or negative s required.

Softlimits will reduce the size of the working area - I have X backoff as -3 and softlimits at 0 so I don't lose anything.
Hope this explains it ?