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I made a Cheat Sheet for Mach3 setup for the Shapeoko 2 with the Acme upgrade. I calibrated the Z axis with a starett height gage which allowed me to get within a thou. http://imgur.com/a/MU8c8
Hope this helps anyone willing to try. It works way better than Chilipeppr or GRBL.

The steps per capcualtion so far requires things I do not have, but I have other information I am trying to tie in. Here it goes Nema 23 motor 200 steps per revolution. I have a TB6600 Driver set at 1/16th microsteps and I know from the tinyG that 40mm per revolution is the going rate for the motor ...

Apparently 380.08 is ancient and synthetos is touting it as the latest rev?????? Who's in charge of that I updated the tinyG and it turns out the latest they claim is two freaking years old! Where is the latest?

Has anyone haad success with using the tinyG hooked up to Chillipeppr with a raspberry pi? Looking for some help

Thanks!

here is the link - http://chilipeppr.com/tinyg

I must try this

The Raspberry PI 2 B+ is out and I was wondering if tgfx will run on this version. Anyone know??

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You could adopt a smoothieboard http://smoothieware.org/smoothieboard They have a board that can do five axis motion.

I am using the TinyG with an acme upgrade. The Z axis motor is always energized. Thanks for you help! Appreciate it very much.

Greetings, I am seeing through several cam packages that cutting tool sinks into the workpiece before it is given the command Z-0.050. On Makercam it sunk right away and moved towards the first pocket. On Makercam it slowly ramped down to the desired first cut depth of 50 thousandths. It seems to be...

The offsets are off by about 1-2 inches randomly.

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