A while ago, I posted about my experience buying a machine from Pacific Tooling/Roger Webb. In that post, I mentioned that Roger had provided a pirated copy of Mach3 and a couple of people responded by saying that the pirated copies were often very 'buggy'. This has left me a bit paranoid because, as a relatively new user, I'm never quite sure now whether a problem is from my ignorance (the most likely explanation LOL) or from bugs in my copy of Mach3. I should mention here that I do have a licensed copy but Roger insisted that I use his copy as it had been set up specifically for my machine.
All that being said, I have an issue that I can't solve. When I bought this machine, I also bought with it the 4th axis option. To date I have been spending my time familiarising myself with the std router functions but now I am ready to try the 4th axis. I started by watching the Vectric Aspire tutorial on setting up a wrapped job and making a simple cylinder from a square length of timber.
The first thing I discovered was that the calibrations (steps per unit) had changed when I used the 4th axis. (Should this happen?) Having recalibrated the Y & Z axis and the A axis, I start my job ( a simple rounding job), I find that, while the material is 450mm long, the Y axis only travels about 40mm.
Am I missing something? Or might it be a bug?