Canceling motor assignments

[fcwilt]

Hi,

I've been working with a modification to my printer which now has 3 Z lead screws each with it's own stepper motor.

The initial motor assignment I did was M584 X0 Y1 Z2:3:4 E5 and that worked fine.

But I've seen some folks post about "splitting" the three Z motor assignments into, say, A, B, C so they can control the motors separately.

So I tried M584 X0 Y1 Z2:3:4 A2 B3 C4 E5 and that seemed to work. Three new sets of jog controls appeared in DWC for A, B & C.

But when I tried to restore the initial motor assignment using just M584 X0 Y1 Z2:3:4 E5 the new assignments for A,B & C were still appearing in DWC and still working.

So assuming what I am trying to do is not totally wrongheaded and I should be ashamed of myself, what can I do to cancel the temporary A,B & C assignments and make them no longer work or appear in DWC?

Thanks.

Frederick

[droftarts]

You usually split out the motors of an axis if you want to home them individually with an endstop for each motor; I'm not sure there's any other reason to do it. To be able to home each motor individually, you make the extra axes visible in a macro, using M584 P[number of axes you want visible], home the axes, then make them invisible again with a further M584 P[number of axes you want visible]. Normally in config.g you would have:
M584 X0 Y1 Z2:3:4 A2 B3 C4 E5 P3
to show only the X, Y and Z axes at startup, followed by the other motor settings (M350, M92, M566, M203, M201, M906) for all axes.

In the macro you would show the extra axes with (I think):
M584 P6
and turn them off again after homing with:
M584 P3

See M584 for reference.

Otherwise for 3 leadscrew bed levelling you should use https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Bed_levelling_using_multiple_independent_Z_motors

Ian

[fcwilt]

@droftarts Thanks - that all makes perfect sense.

Frederick