DIY CNC 014 - Motor Tuning, Squareness and Spoilboard Surfacing

In today's video, I'll be sharing a couple of updates regarding the machine. Firstly, I'll discuss improvements in cable management and the design and crafting of a custom dust boot tailored specifically for this machine. Then, I'll guide you through the process of properly calibrating your NEMA motors in Mach 3 by setting your 'Steps per mm' or 'Steps per inch'. Accurately defining these parameters is essential for achieving precise results with your machine. I'll provide a demonstration on how to test this calibration and offer a hypothetical example of how to address any accuracy issues that may arise. Additionally, I'll demonstrate a critical calibration technique for checking the squareness of your machine using Pythagoras' theorem (the 3, 4, 5 rule). This simple method can quickly determine if your machine is true and square.
After these updates, I'll proceed to conduct the first basic cut on my machine, which involves a simple facing operation on an old spoilboard from my previous 3018 CNC. Upon achieving success with this initial cut, I gained confidence in the machine and promptly moved on to securing and surfacing the actual spoilboard.
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00:00 Intro
00:52 Custom Dust Boot
04:20 Cable Management
07:45 Thank You Creality
08:36 Motor Step Calibration
15:27 How To Calculate Steps per mm
19:25 Check for Squareness with Pythagoras' Theorem
24:25 First Ever Test Cut
35:53 Mounting and Surfacing the Spoilboard
43:24 Outro
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▶▶ Watch the whole series of videos:
▶ Part 1: • DIY CNC 001 - Introdu...
▶ Part 2: • DIY CNC 002 - Specific...
▶ Part 3: • DIY CNC 003 - Tools fo...
▶ Part 4: • DIY CNC 004 - Drilling...
▶ Part 5: • DIY CNC 005 - Y-Axis F...
▶ Part 6: • DIY CNC 006 - Gantry A...
▶ Part 7: • DIY CNC 007 - Z-Axis A...
▶ Part 8: • DIY CNC 008 - Linear ...
▶ Part 9: • DIY CNC 009 - Surface ...
▶ Part 10: • DIY CNC 010 - Closed L...
▶ Part 11: • DIY CNC 011 - VFD and ...
▶ Part 12: • DIY CNC 012 - Electric...
▶ Part 13: • DIY CNC 013 - Configur...
▶ Part 14: • DIY CNC 014 - Motor Tu...
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[@cvicracer]

Simply excellent thank you so much for sharing

[@thehardwareguy]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@graveurgraveur2691]

Great job!

[@thehardwareguy]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@xen5780]

Good work, new sub to your channel looking forward to the next update 🎉🎉

[@halfwittedinnovator7179]

where is the document link as you said link is at the bottom?

[@masterchief4125]

Niceee! Aluminum! Aluminum!
Please!!

[@thehardwareguy]

In the UK it is spelled and pronounced Alu-min-ium

[@masterchief4125]

@@thehardwareguy lol yeah I know.
Well the element Al ! Please 😭

[@chrisfairbrother9197]

Great job. Sorry but, you have programmed the X axis in a negative direction when it should be positive. This will effect any software you use to create gcode. Google the right hand rule 😊

[@thehardwareguy]

yes that is true, I will probably change it at some point just to be following the rule. However, I have accounted for that in Mach3. To be honest there's to "right" way to do it. As long as the setup is correct it doesn't matter