Test Carve

X-Carve Troubleshooting
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Finally got my first test carve done.
The cut was perfect, beautiful and smooth, but

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Can anyone give me any pointers?
Cheers
Guy

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Did you swap the X and Y motor connections?

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The homing sequence works fine - so am unsure what’s going on.

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When it homes, does the gantry move towards you or away from you?

This might be an orientation issue.

http://x-carve-instructions.inventables.com/x-carve-main.jpg

That image from the Instructions shows the proper orientation. X and Y zero are the lower left corner as you’re looking at the machine in the image.

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Hi Justin
The gantry moves toward me and the router to the left - looking at the machine.
True, but when I started caring at the X and Y 0 (the orange dot) the X Carve was carving air as per the yellow squiggle.
When I moved to the pink dot out of frustration - the carve is as you see it.
I’m wondering if there is a setting in Easel to mirror or flip that I may have not reset.
Cheers
Guy

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In Easel, when you click the Carve button, on the first screen there’s jog controls on the right side of the screen. For the Y axis, clicking the up arrow should move it away from you. If it doesn’t, rerun the machine setup which, if they fixed it, should change the Y direction. If it still doesn’t work, either follow the post that Phil linked or contact Inventables Customer Success…they’re helpful and that’s why they are there.

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Thanks for all the help - working fine now.
As everyone suggested the Y axis was on the fritz.
Easel took care of that as soon as I confirmed.
Cheers All