PRIME MOTIONSafety settings
Prime Motion protects the machine in three different ways, and only some of them are yours to tune. Settings → Safety holds the ones you can; the field-by-field reference is Settings → Safety.
Refusals, confirmations and warnings
- A refusal does not let the action happen and says why: Start with no work zero set, a jog before homing, a program that does not fit the machine. Nothing is sent.
- A confirmation stops and asks before an action that is hard to undo. The action's drawer waits for your tap.
- A warning reports and lets you carry on. The safety colours on a loaded program are warnings in this sense: they report, you decide.
What you can tune
| Setting | What it changes |
|---|---|
| Confirm Dangerous Actions | Whether Home and the go-to moves wait for you to tap the drawer's button, or start as soon as the drawer opens |
| Confirm Zero Setting | The same for Zero |
| Soft Limit Warning | Whether Start checks that the program fits the machine's travel |
| Stop Jog at Limits | Whether jogs are shortened or blocked at the edge of travel |
All four are on by default. Save Pos and Load Pos always ask, whatever these say.
What cannot be turned off
- The homing gate. Everything that moves the machine waits for a homed machine, because every other protection is written in coordinates that do not exist before homing.
- The start checks for a connection, a homed machine, a valid work zero and tool length.
- The controller's own limits. Soft and hard limits live in the controller; see Soft limits and travel.
- The three-tap E-STOP. One tap would fire on an accidental brush.
- Stops from a remote browser. Every paired browser can always stop the machine.