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Great! I will do that this weekend hopefully! I spent a long time making little dots on my spoilboards and checking square. I finally got it to where by eye at least it is dead on. (Using a meter long ruler marked in half millimeters.) I'll double check square, set the soft limits and made a "b...

Thanks!

So if I put them back they should hold unless the auto-square macro is interrupted?

This isn't so bad. I can just re-enter them if it happens. Not ideal, but not so bad.

Ok.... I am back. I figured out what was happening with my machine losing zero. I am sure it will make those with more experience roll their eyes but maybe this will help someone else. After getting my machine set up with the Acorn conversion, I set up soft limits as I understood them in the manual....

Sorry for the confusion. This is just a screen capture from the YT video to show which button I am clicking for the zero process.

I think I am one version behind. I installed it last year.

I may have discovered something I was doing wrong:

I found this YT video:

She was using the Part Setup menu for all three axis. I was using the button in the attached picture. Is this button just a shortcut for the same thing?

As a follow up: I called Geckodrive today and told them of the issue. They suggested that it might have been a couple of things: The first is that I might have been taking too heavy of a cut and over-worked one my stepper motors. This seems unlikely since I performed the same cut in the same materia...

Thanks for the replies. I have attached a report. I will have to look through the Geckodrive manual. I don't remember seeing any of that before. I just ran several more nc files in a silly little project I am making and they all ran fine except for one thing that I am not sure is relevant. For some ...

Hello... I am back. After the snow cleared and the weather warmed I went through all of the steps above. Everything looked fine. I have been running small "learning" jobs and getting used to the machine. I have been watching the error log and I haven't had a single communication error sinc...

Oh wow! Thanks! Like I said, still learning here.

As soon as I can get past this white-out (weather) I will put this machine under the test!

Thanks for the response!! No. The last thing that happened before all of this started happening was when I had to stop the job because of my error setting the Z height. I am still new to CNC12. What communication? Between PC and Acorn board or between sensors and Acorn? Edit: I finally found what I ...