Quote Originally Posted by Clive S View Post
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Re point 3 It is the homing that give the ref points for the soft limits.
It is really useful to have reliable, accurate, homing switches so that you can quickly set up reference positions when you switch on each time. Picking up accurate positions from one session to the next is difficult without this, whether you use hard limit switches or not. I don't have home switches on my current machine and it's a pain.