I have just run my second test carve (used a marker & paper)  to carve/write the word "Test".  My carving is backwards and the letters are pretty much over top of each other.  Any suggestions on what's going on.  Am a complete novice.  We do not use switches - everything homes ok (home is set to left of table all the way back)- we jog out away from home to a random area on our workspace - zero the axis, then select regen tool path.  Have pic but don't know how to add it.  Any help would be appreciated.

The usual convention for X0 ,Y0 is at the left hand corner nearest to you.

Assuming your horizontal axis is the X axis then if you go to Config. / Ports & Pins / Motor Outputs then change the Direction Low Active state for the X axis that will correct your letters being in reverse.

As for the letters being on top of one another - that could be lost steps, try reducing your Velocity and Acceleration settings by 50% (in Motor Tuning) for the X and Y axis, save the changes and report back on the result.

Tweakie.

We will try your suggestions.  I just talked w/my husband and he agrees X axis is probably wrong.  Hopefully working on it this evening.  Thanks.

We reversed the direction of the X axis and changed home position, then we reduced steps, velocity and acceleration and IT WORKED!  We did three tries w/different settings just to see what happened.  The third came out the best.  How do you determine when you are at optimum settings...like, with each reduction in steps/velocity/acceleration the  letters got closer together.  Our test was only with a marker clamped in - no router yet....but we could read it.  Thanks.

I am pleased you have it working. 

The Velocity and Acceleration figures are arrived at by 'trial & error'.
Just one axis at a time, increase Velocity until the axis starts to stall (shift + arrow key - fast jogging) then reduce the figure by 30%. Repeat for each axis and do a similar thing with Acceleration.

Tweakie.

Thank you Tweakie, your assistance is appreciated!