I should have had a “may” in there. Oddly enough I just installed Easel and UGS last night on a new laptop. I couldn’t get it go through the x carve set up. I re-read and noticed, as it’s been awhile, that I had to download the Easel driver file and Java file. I had already loaded UGS.
Only after downloading the Easel driver file, could I get through the Easel machine setup. I also noticed a second COM port available after this…After completing the setup through Easel, I extracted UGS again because it didn’t work last night. This time everything worked and with homing switches installed, I HAD to click the $X, as it went into the alarm state by itself. This may be because it was homed during the easel setup.
Perhaps if one doesn’t have home switches then this isn’t an issue, but given the parameters of the set up, UGS defaults to the alarm state before homing. I have always had home switches on, so I can’t speak to a different set up.