Cut parts are slightly skewed. Next troubleshooting steps?

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Hi all. First post here. I am running a brand new Maslow 4.1, using a vertical 8x10 frame, with a 4’x4’ workpiece.

I have been able to calibrate successfully and make several cuts that look great and are very consistent but are “skewed” a bit long in the x direction and short in the y direction. I’ve attached a picture of the parts, which are supposed to be circles!

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My lower circle was off by +3.5% in x axis and -4.5% in the y axis.

My upper circle was off by the same in the x-axis but -3.2% in the y axis.

The right angles on that rectangle are also bang-on square compared to themselves and to the base of the plywood. There was some wonkiness along the top edge but based on the frame size checker, that should be expected.

What should my next troubleshooting steps be? I’ve heard talk of manual calibration being better but couldn’t find much info on how to perform that process on the newer Maslow. Could there be other confounding factors?

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Woah yeah those are very skewed!

I would start by just running the vanilla calibration process again. It should take the results from before as a starting point and improve on them hopefully giving you better results.

You can also in the settings manually correct for some X and Y scaling, but this seems too far off for that yet.

Manual calibration just means measuring the exact coordinates of your anchor points by hand and entering them in the settings. Some folks have reported great results doing that, but I haven’t personally had it work well (I guess I’m just bad a measuring :pensive_face: )