Z depth is off

X-Carve Troubleshooting
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Hi

For some reason my z depth is massively off from the instruction given. Set depth to 2mm and it’s carving to 4mm

GBRL setting for $102=188.976.

The distance when jogging is bang on 100mm jog goes 100mm but as soon as hit carve it doubles the value.

Any ideas?

2

You could be losing steps because of the bushing binding on the screw. Are you able to raise and lower the Z axis all the way without any perceived stress?

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Easel or other program?

4

All sorted. The z step calibration was out by 1.5mm so recalculated and ran a depth chart came out perfect.

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@Zach_Kaplan. Not sorted. Still doubles on 2 staging. I’ve emailed you the details of the project. Disappointing as I did easel pro specifically for this job

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How are you setting your zero for the detail pass?

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It’s doubling on the roughing as well. Both set to 2mm but going 4mm. Tried a cut through at 17mm and after it had cleared the workpiece (17mm) I stopped it with the “oh sh!t” button but it had already gone through to my wasteboard by 1.5mm at that point

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But inventables customers service are looking at it now so will have a solve soon.

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When carving through material my work flow is as follows:

  • Place down the material to be carved, say it is 12mm thick
  • I then zero my Z off the waste board surface, and raise the bit 0.5mm higher than material thickness => 12.5mm
  • Place my bit where I want X/Y zero, and use this as my home position (work zero)
  • Tell Easel I want to carve 12.5mm deep
  • Carve

Regardless steps per millimeter calue the carve will end exactly at surface level.
Any discrepancy from that will stem from malfunction/mechanical slippage/backlash or steps lost.

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I’ll give that try. At the moment it seems to be just 1 project that does it as I just done a different one and it was fine

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I have had the same problem since I bought the machine. I just cut the Z measurments in half. If I unplug the machine and restart it, it cuts the exact depth I want, every carve after that will be double.