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@NickEPravlik - first, welcome to the forums. You will find a wealth of information here and some very helpful people. I recommend you take a deep breath, read up on how to calibrate the machine and watch some of the instructional videos. Then pause - digest all the information. Read/watch them again. Then pause, create a plan, then methodically adjust X, Y, and Z parameters for optimal results.
If your X-carve is not moving the distances it is instructed to move, there are usually very few causes:
1 - it is not calibrated properly
2 - there is something mechanical impeding motion
3 - there is something electrical affect motion
99.99% of the time, it is #1. Start there. The machine is fairly well calibrated out of the box and it shouldn’t be off by 250% IMHO.
CNC has a steep learning curve - it’s not “push a button and cut” like some folks want to make it out to be. Maybe someday some one will have a fully integrated tool chain that is super easy to use and a fully build machine that requires no tweaking. That’s not where the community is and that is not the X-Carve (sorry @inventables).
