Guys. Just got home so I won’t be doing a calibration cut tonight. Gotta get the car unpacked and recover from chasing my little guys around a water park for 2 days lol. I apologize.
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Finally got back to the Maslow. I updated to 1.07 GC and FW and recalibrated. After calibration (the routine is way better now!) I ran the test cuts and it calculated!! Interestingly my motors we’re within 0.5mm and the chain sag was with just a few decimal places of what it was before all of this.
Thanks again to all of you for your help. I think it’s time to practice with a raised dog bowl holder for my ageing dog.
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That is great news!
Just don’t use the “set chain lengths automatic” button, I broke that fixing everything else 
…but I’m working on fixing that right now.
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He likes it!
My circles aren’t quite round so I’ll have to figure that out but overall a successful first project. 20 minutes in Fusion and I used a slow 20 IPM cut speed so about an hour to cut.
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circles not being round is a calibraton/machine config error. This is one of the
things that is MUCH easier to deal with if you are using triangular kinematics.
(i.e. one of the linkage or ring kits)
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Dawwwww!!! I like it too 
Nice build.
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I do have a linkage kit. Forgive my ignorance but is there still the calibration routine that uses the circle inside the square so I can fine tune what i currently have?
No, with a linkage kit the calibration is far different, far simpler, and far
more accurate.
you are now actually figuring out what the machine will do rather than trying to
introduce error in one parameter to counter possible error in 5 other
parameters.
Okay, so basically, the culprit is most likely human measurement errors in my measurements for cuts 1-5. This is why I still have a little bit of an oblong circle.
Makes complete sense based on my solo use of a standard tape measure to take the measurements.
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The calibration process will build on itself to get more accurate if you run it again, so it might be worth doing that if it’s an issue. You should be under a mm of distortion across the whole sheet at this point.
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Thanks, that’s exactly what I needed to hear. I will run it a few more times.
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