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Had Mach3 running on my old machine which used lead screws on all 3 axis.  Recently tore it down and rebuilt it much larger and with pulley and belt drive.  Used "auto setting of steps per unit" and got Mach3 re-calibrated to the new machine and when finished I can  tell it to move one inch and I get exactly that.

Then tried some g-code that the old machine had run successfully and on the new machine all axis just move slightly...like it wasn't calibrated and is just barley budging when it should move a much larger distance.

When jogging under manual keyboard everything just barley moves. To get any batter jog speed I have to go under "motor tuning" and set "velocity" to at 5000 in/min or some other unrealistic number.

Any ideas? Did I overlook something?

Offline Chaoticone

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Re: Auto Setting Steps on new machine, then trouble with old code
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2013, 05:41:30 PM »
Do you have your native units set to mm when it should be inches?

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Re: Auto Setting Steps on new machine, then trouble with old code
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2013, 07:26:07 PM »
I thought of that. Nope, it's still at inches.

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Re: Auto Setting Steps on new machine, then trouble with old code
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2013, 08:56:26 PM »
Did you save your settings after recalibrating, then close Mach and restart it , and then try the old gcode?

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Re: Auto Setting Steps on new machine, then trouble with old code
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2013, 09:19:17 PM »
Did do the Save, but haven't shut down and restarted...let me give that a try.
Re: Auto Setting Steps on new machine, then trouble with old code
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2013, 10:06:13 AM »
It worked Fine after I shut mach3 down and restarted. I should have thought of that....

Thanks for the help.

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Re: Auto Setting Steps on new machine, then trouble with old code
« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2013, 06:45:40 PM »
You would think save settings would take care of it. Not sure what the manual say's as i am too lazy to look it up right now. :D

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