Re: questions for new cnc user

Jeff,

Nice catch!

Ballendo

P.S. Even if you're wrong, this is good thinking, IMO!

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., Jeff Demand <jdemand@a...> wrote:
> Scott,
>
> Perhaps your leadscrews are 1mm pitch metric?
>
> Jeff
>
> At 06:55 AM 2/2/02 -0000, you wrote:
>
> >
> >1) My steppers are 1.8 degree/step, the sherline is 20 revolutions
> >per inch, and the gecko is a 10-microstep driver, so I compute
> >40,000 steps per inch. However, when I command the software to
move
> >1 inch, it only moves (approx) 0.75". Where did I go wrong?
> >
> >
>
>
> Jeff Demand
> http://www.aztec-net.com/~jdemand