Consistently undersized holes and oversized parts

Well, I had a 50/50 shot at guessing correct, but, I used 1/2 the error and I’m pretty much spot on… 0.495 inches. I also cut a part (8-inch square) and it came out 1/32 inch shy. I’ll take it!

But, that all still makes me wonder… I don’t know if my belt tension is correct and wonder if any of that could have an impact. I’m hesitate of overtightening it. Im also wondering if some of the default settings of the controller could be throwing it off. I have to set my max feedrates everytime I reset things because the FW feedrates are way too high (z axis won’t even lift at the default rate). See Adjust cncjs travel speed. I’m wondering if settings like acceleration/jerk might be too high as well. Is there a post with “standard” or “recommended” settings?