# Someone please help! **URL:** \ **Category:** X-Carve\ **Created:** [July 2, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605 "2016-07-02T19:19:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AliDanielleTaylor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@AliDanielleTaylor](https://community.inventables.com/u/AliDanielleTaylor)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605/1 "2016-07-02T19:19:19Z")
My X carve is cutting too deep! It also gets off track near the end of the cut when the cut starts to reverse. I need someone to help please! ---
**Author:** ![JDM](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/jdm/32/84169_2.png) [@JDM](https://community.inventables.com/u/JDM)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605/2 "2016-07-02T19:20:54Z")
what are your units set to? mm or inches? ---
**Author:** ![AliDanielleTaylor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@AliDanielleTaylor](https://community.inventables.com/u/AliDanielleTaylor)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605/3 "2016-07-02T19:22:11Z")
Inches ---
**Author:** ![JDM](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/jdm/32/84169_2.png) [@JDM](https://community.inventables.com/u/JDM)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605/4 "2016-07-02T19:22:40Z")
can you please share the file you are trying to cut. ---
**Author:** ![JDM](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/jdm/32/84169_2.png) [@JDM](https://community.inventables.com/u/JDM)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605/5 "2016-07-02T19:25:04Z")
file–\>share–\>share with link and post link here ---
**Author:** ![AliDanielleTaylor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@AliDanielleTaylor](https://community.inventables.com/u/AliDanielleTaylor)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 8:39pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605/8 "2016-07-02T20:39:51Z")
> **[Untitled](https://easel.inventables.com/projects/GC14vaNolgPYcmQwt1TB1A)** > > by Ali Danielle Taylor ---
**Author:** ![AliDanielleTaylor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@AliDanielleTaylor](https://community.inventables.com/u/AliDanielleTaylor)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605/9 "2016-07-02T20:44:34Z")
I have tried to cut the same image on a much larger scale and that was when I noticed the issue. So I tried doing it on a smaller scale on some scrap wood a few times. I made sure that my pulleys were tight and I checked my belt tension. Everything seems to be running fine. It is cutting through the waste board. Because it is cutting so deep it will not let the machine cut tabs in my letter. When the machine starts to cut in reverse it does not follow the path that was cut going the original way. ---
**Author:** ![JDM](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/jdm/32/84169_2.png) [@JDM](https://community.inventables.com/u/JDM)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605/10 "2016-07-02T20:45:57Z")
How are you measuring your material? a lot of material advertised as 1/2 in actually under .5 ---
**Author:** ![AliDanielleTaylor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@AliDanielleTaylor](https://community.inventables.com/u/AliDanielleTaylor)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605/11 "2016-07-02T20:47:10Z")
With a measuring tape. The material is cut into exactly 24 in by 24 in squares ---
**Author:** ![JDM](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/jdm/32/84169_2.png) [@JDM](https://community.inventables.com/u/JDM)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605/12 "2016-07-02T20:47:56Z")
i’m talking about thickness. Your material is set to .5 thick and the depth of cut is set to .5" thick ---
**Author:** ![AliDanielleTaylor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@AliDanielleTaylor](https://community.inventables.com/u/AliDanielleTaylor)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605/13 "2016-07-02T20:49:53Z")
Oh yes. I was wanting it to cut completely through the wood. The wood that I purchased was .5 thick birch plywood ---
**Author:** ![JDM](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/jdm/32/84169_2.png) [@JDM](https://community.inventables.com/u/JDM)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605/14 "2016-07-02T20:50:46Z")
is it exactly .5" thick? that is important ---
**Author:** ![JDM](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/jdm/32/84169_2.png) [@JDM](https://community.inventables.com/u/JDM)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605/15 "2016-07-02T20:51:56Z")
also, did you do machine set up and enter the correct lead screw for your z axis? ---
**Author:** ![AliDanielleTaylor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@AliDanielleTaylor](https://community.inventables.com/u/AliDanielleTaylor)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605/16 "2016-07-02T20:52:01Z")
Yes it is exact. ---
**Author:** ![CoreyMitchell](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/coreymitchell/32/23631_2.png) [@CoreyMitchell](https://community.inventables.com/u/CoreyMitchell)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605/17 "2016-07-02T20:53:30Z")
Any pictures of the work piece? How far too deep did it go? ---
**Author:** ![AliDanielleTaylor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@AliDanielleTaylor](https://community.inventables.com/u/AliDanielleTaylor)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605/18 "2016-07-02T20:57:29Z")
I will upload some pictures. Just a moment. ---
**Author:** ![JDM](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/jdm/32/84169_2.png) [@JDM](https://community.inventables.com/u/JDM)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605/19 "2016-07-02T20:57:49Z")
if my thinking is correct, if you have a ACME screw and it is set to M8, i would cut too deep ---
**Author:** ![JDM](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/jdm/32/84169_2.png) [@JDM](https://community.inventables.com/u/JDM)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605/20 "2016-07-02T21:06:07Z")
I looked at the X-Carve configure page and it doesn’t look like they are selling the M8 in the package. ---
**Author:** ![CoreyMitchell](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/coreymitchell/32/23631_2.png) [@CoreyMitchell](https://community.inventables.com/u/CoreyMitchell)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 9:42pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605/21 "2016-07-02T21:42:28Z")
You mention it got off track near the end when it reversed direction. Did you set the stepper motor potentiometers? [X-Carve Maintenance/Troubleshooting Videos - Add Your Own! - #3 by RobertA\_Rieke](https://community.inventables.com/t/x-carve-maintenance-troubleshooting-videos-add-your-own/13405/3) This thread has a lot of good information. Watch the video on stepper motor potentiometer setting. When it reversed directions (guessing it went from clockwise to counter clockwise?) it may have switched from conventional milling to climb milling which is a little bit tougher on the machine. If your motors are not receiving enough current to move it then it could have lost steps and would have no longer been following the pattern. ---
**Author:** ![AliDanielleTaylor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@AliDanielleTaylor](https://community.inventables.com/u/AliDanielleTaylor)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605/22 "2016-07-03T17:58:38Z")
I have them set X at 12 oclock, y at 2 oclock, and z at 12 oclock. 12 oclock being about half way [Next page](https://community.inventables.com/t/someone-please-help/25605.md?page=2)