Had my first real test on the cnc.

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Had my first real test on the cnc. One dog tag later and a circle, just to find slight inaccuracies :slight_smile:
So now for the runout, square circle diamond test. Then to build a box for the arduino and shield.

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Congrats! Looks good!

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What was the problem you found as to why you were not getting a circle initially, but getting a 4 point star?

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In his previous post he suggested the issue was makercam was exporting too many decimal places.

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Yep. If you export g-code with Makercam set to cm’s the g-code has many decimal places. If set to inch’s only 3 or 4 dp’s.

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However now Inkscape exports dxf as R14 and CamBam only imports upto version 2000. Two steps forward one back!

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Great!

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Good job, your machine looks great. Very clean assembly.

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The diamond/square/circle test file is now inside ChiliPeppr by default to help folks who want to use it to calibrate. It’s under the drag/drop pulldown menu in upper left corner.