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Hello! First off, I am completely blown away by the ease of Easel… Such a breeze. Secondly, I was wondering how Easel knows which pins are connected to each x, y, and z stepper motor, for forwards, and backwards… I just plugged one in arbitrarily, as a test, and it moves… Does it auto-detect, or is there something obvious I’m missing…?
The switch inputs can be used as homing switches and/or limit switches. You can run without using the switches at all, but you give up quite a bit of the usefulness if you don’t at least use them as homing switches.
Homing synchronizes the hardware (X-carve) with grbl which opens up a lot of functionality that is not available if you don’t home your machine. I’ll look up a reference page for you.