This brought me to my next square shape test. All looked good, cuts right…used engrave on outside of line in Estlcam…cutting great, then bam it starts to dig at like close to 5/8 depth into the part. I shut it down. I thought maybe corrupt .dxl file from solidworks. I used a triangle shape this time. That is when it did the same thing, destroyed part after looking good for the first few minutes. I got the Z stuck *you guided me into fixing that, which I did…thats when realized that second circle like indicating an off center was there…and that is where we are now.
Before you started doing these tests, how did program your settings into WebControl? Did you manualy enter them or did you import your old settings file from Ground Control?
correct, sorry. Yes I transferred over my.ini file using WinSCP (I believe it was WinSCP) to the pi, this way could load it into the pi with the groundcontrol.ini button. I did this on the pi with keyboard, using its displayed Webcontrol. Did this before I mounted the monitor actually…same day I believe just in case an issue
Ok, let me just make sure I’m clear so far’
After installing WebControl, you imported your old Ground Control .ini file.
correct, but is was on my Windows laptop, I needed to get it to the Pi…so I used WinSCP to transfer files over like Putty sort of right. I think they sort of work on same principal. I loaded it to the Webcontrol folder in the Pi, this way I could easily find it when I went to Webcontrol on the pi and hit the load groundcontrol.ini button. Does this help explain? Hopeflly a little clearer 
I apologize if I seem a bit abrupt and short, it’s jsut my troubleshooting method. I am looking for very short answers.
The only things I changed manually in the Maslow setting, and Advanced setting after that groundcontrol.ini load was: the 2 Z axis areas for pitch and encoder for Z access areas. As that is what I was having trouble with on each shape I cut, or so I thought. If that helps
Yes, this is very helpfull and is really clearing things up for me.
no no this is great, I appreciate you helping me and trying to figure out what happened!! Only way for you to know is for me to explain all the steps, I totally get it!!!
Ok, next question.
Once you transfered your .ini file. Did you perform a calibration?
This may help others someday as they can see what I did…the steps, and eventually where we find what happened…
No, not yet…I loaded the file, then since I wrote down my original settings from ground control when I did the calibration in May 2020, I wanted to see if they all took. So i went and eyeballed the numbers in the Maslow settings from Webcontrol dropdown. They all matched exact, including the fact it knew I had longer chains and such for the 12 foot metal maslow upper rail for motors. So i was confident we were good to go.
Pause.
now eventually as you know, I DID upgrade the firmware to do the Holey calibration as I did some research earlier this week (i think Monday) and figured out what the Holey button meant…I figured be good to give it a fresh calibration, but maybe more accurate one right. I am no engineer, but looking up at the 4 test cuts used in May, and looking at all the measurements required for Holey…and the measurements to more points at an angle, I figured could only help dial it in more so wanted to do it.
When you set up the original Ground Control configuration, did you have the longer chains and 12’ beam or were you using something differnet?
yes, and i knew had to get the longer chains in there in the groundcontrol.
default chain length was 3360 I believe, I changed to 4267.2 if reading what I wrote down in May correctly
Ok, just to make sure I understand this correctly:
When you configrued your original ground control set up. You had already installed the longer chains and 12’ top beam?
yup I put the numbers above.
ok, sorry. just wanted to be sure of this point. Moving On.
So you checked your numbers in webcontrol to verify that th e.ini file import worked correctly?
After this what did you do?