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General CNC Chat => Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) => Topic started by: bpoolrock on May 22, 2015, 06:43:26 PM
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My first cnc project , its a scaled up version of the chinees 20/30router.
It is working fine but the following is puzzling me.
Y & Z are set to 80 steps and the X to 320.
All the motors and dip settings are the same also the screw pitch(lead)
The slides are moving as D.R.O.
Am i missing somthing
bpoolrock
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if your stepper drives have dipswitches, re flip them. I have found that sometimes they do not rock all the way and make the connection.
your Y and Z seem a bit low. Ok alot low. I am assuming that you are in metric native units. What pitch are your lead screws? 1.9 degree steppers? and micro stepping of the stepper drives?
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Go to the Settings screen and click on Set Steps per Unit (bottom left).
Follow the instructions and repeat for each axis - this should tell you the correct steps per unit you should have set in Motor Tuning for each axis.
Tweakie.
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Tweakie, it has been years since I have used the default screen set....... I totally forgot about that setting. Wow.... relearned something today. I always have done it manually. I guess I am a control freak.