Lowrider cutting wrong size and angles

I finally got my cnc working (what I thought was correct), since I was cutting random shapes and letters for parties and recreational I didn’t really look back to measure exact sizes. Until last night I was cutting a product stacker for a store which has to hold acrylic boxes . The boxes were laser cut and are accurate. But the panel which they have to slide into is significantly skewed. I did this cut a bunch of times and was thinking maybe I designed it wrong then I took it by my neighbors who cut it on his industrial cnc and it cut the right angle and shapes

Attached are a few pics. The Shorter of the PVC board cuts was done on my friends machine. Both were cut from the same file and same measurements.the angles circled in the red are supposed to be 90 degrees. But were cut at these weird angles. And the height of the cut is soooo far off.

The piece was cut left to right on the lowrider. I am open to any idea as to what can cause this




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Did you test your Y axis for square? The end of the build instructions show how to do this.

This dimension?

That means your steps per mm are incorrect, did you buy the hardware from me? Are you using my board and firmware?

Yes this dimension is off. But that is cut alone the x axis…

I’m here testing the “movement on all axis”
Moving each 100 mm. I am playing the router . Marking the start and moving 100 and marking the srop and measuring

Z measures correctly
Y measures correctly
X measures 120mm

I ran a calculation and concluded I have to have 83 steps in the x to be correct ( correct me if I’m wrong) .
When I change it in the firmware it doesn’t make a difference.

I followed all the Instructions but bought all the boards and accessories separate ( amazon)
It is 1.2 pro all belts are gt2
The firmware is from you page

How do I make the change that it stays and makes a permanent change

Your pulley must be a 20 tooth pulley.

If the steps are set at 100, you need them to be 80.

I did that but it is but is doent seem to take the change … I did that clike the little build check mark.

Copied the firmware file and reflashed

You can just set it in the firmware and save.

If you changed the firmware, it can keep whatever settings were saved before, even if you re-flash the board. (Learned that the hard way myself.)

  • M500 saves all of the user-defined.
  • M501 loads prevuously saved settings.
  • M502 resets everything to firmware default values. You will want to do this if you re-flash the board.
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Check the picture above…I saved …built and copied to mini sd… Inserted mini sd into skr 1.2 pro… Rebooted …file changed to .cur… But same thing…

Am I saving and building wrong?

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I see you rebuilt and reflashed the firmware, but did not see that you ran the M502 to reset all of the user saveable values to flashed defaults.

If you saved values before rebuilding Marlin, it will have saved the 100 steps/mm value, and will reload it on boot, even if you changed the value to 80 in the new firmware.

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M92 X80

That will set it on the skr.

If it works, M500 to save it to eeprom

The settings in the firmware are only when you set it up initially, or change versions, or use M502 to restore those defaults.

Also, with a 20T pulley, your X will have 20% less torque. So you should consider ordering the 16T pulley. It will be fine for now.

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Ok I got it set. I did it through the display. Settings EPROM . Reset to defaults and it seems to work.

Thanks for the help.