Steps per unit daft question

[dcrowder]

A fine piece of work! It's really helped me get my head around what is going on.

Once I had read through that and also had confidence in the units I was entering in the axis calibration, it enabled me make some progress today :)

The machine is all zeroed, calibrated, motors smooth.. I went with 10x steps for the X & Y - and 4x steps for the Z as the motor would stop rotating at higher speed using 10x - my thinking behind this is that I get more torque the lower the steps....... Correct me if I'm wrong there though please!!!

I've just strapped a marker pen on to the Z and managed to draw an alien face so I'm rather chuffed right now.

On a lighter note... I also want to point out (this post being made shortly before the referendum) that we should be thanking the EU for getting us to use metric instead of imperial. I can't imagine how hard it is for our yankee chums working all this out in Inches