Moving X, Y, and Z Axis on Pronterface

I just finished building my Replikeo Prusa i3 and am now working on the software aspect of it. I have Arduino and Pronterface downloaded. I can make all the axis move by pressing the home buttons like "y-home" or "z-home" but when I try to move them steps at a time using the "y+" or "x-" commands, it gives me an error. Also, the printer is ignoring min and max positions I have defined in configuration.h. It will travel past max distances and run into endstops or the edges of the axis and keep trying to move through them. I defined the home position, direction and max and min positions in configuration.h, but it is ignoring them. The only way I can get it to move is by clicking the home buttons and even then, they don't home, they just travel the distance I set as their max position to travel after homing.

You need to check if the endstops are working as you want them to.

In pronterface with the axis off their endstops send the printer a M119 command
What does it show?

Then manually trigger each endstop in turn and send the printer the M119 command when triggered
What does it show?

I have already configured them. When I run M119 they all show up as open and when I hold one down and run it, the endstop shows as triggered. They all work like this and light up when I press them. The problem is when the printer hits them, it does not stop.

If they don't stop you normally have the wrong endstop on the wrong plug. (presuming its a ramps like board)

min endstops a X left, Y back and Z down
max endstops are X right, Y front and Z up

make sure you have set these correctly (and homing direction in firmware to match)

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/25/2016 06:03PM by Dust.

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The axis directions are incorrect.
I have a Replikeo also. I purposefully put the Y end stop on the back side. And I found I had to reverse the firmware direction of the X axis.

And now the bad news:
If your extruder mounts as a single print part, this means no moving parts and no tensioning you are going to experience bad feed anomalies.

At this stage of my build I have the axis' all working correctly and have done test prints that didn't turn out correctly. This led me to replacing the extruder feeds and hot ends.
I now have herringbone extruders with E3d v6 hot ends mounted. In order to replace the hot ends I had to design a hot end mount and get it printed else where. This brought to a single head instead of the dual that I had. But I have a dual mount on the board. Just wait till you see what you have to go through to level two heads of the Mk types that came with the kit.
I now am waiting for the Molex cable connectors to connect the new end to the existing extension cables that came with the unit.

My Preshiousssss...

Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 02/29/2016 05:21PM by Giantkiller.

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