BitSetter Installation Failure

[DogDad (Adam Travis)]

Hello, I am new to the CNC woodworking community. I recently purchased a Shapeoko 4 XXL with the optional Bitsetter. I am currently have an issue where after I conduct the “home test” on step 5 instruction 5, I click for the SE button for the router to set over the right corner of the CNC. The CNC stops short of the right corner, and when I attempt to adjust it using the Y+/Y-/X+/X- buttons the machine does not respond. Instead I get a “busy” message on carbide motion.

I have sent an email to the carbide community support; however, it is a Sunday and wanted to see if anyone had seen this issue before. I have attached photos for reference. Thanks!

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Not seeing a ticket at support@carbide3d.com

Usually the problem here is that the Y-axis belt tension isn’t sufficient — here I suspect you also didn’t send the correct settings, see:

Setting Grbl Configuration in CM 517 and later

Carbide Motion 517 uses a new system for setting Travel Dimensions which is potentially confusing: [image] Pressing the Load Defaults button takes one to a window which allows one to select first machine size: [image] and then Z-axis type: [image] after which selection the Travel Dimensions for the selections made are entered into the dialog and will be preserved if one clicks “Ok” (and of course that change discarded if one selects “Cancel”). In addition there is a “Send Configuration…

If you’ve got your belts adequately taut

Measuring belt tension, squaring and calibration

A post about belt tension, how to measure it, what effect it has and why you need to manage belt tension in order to usefully calibrate and square the machine. As usual, no criticism of the machine here, in fact some quite clever design choices seem to have been made. The question of drive belt tension has been bugging me. How much you should have, how to check it and how it affects machine performance. I failed to find any quantitative data to use, so I went and started measuring; and found t…

and are still falling short, you can manually increase the Y-axis Travel Dimension to get to the button.

Let us know at support@carbide3d.com and we’ll do our best to assist.

[Ed.E (Ed)]

Your screenshot is showing the Increment amount set to .025mm, it may be moving but so slightly you aren’t noticing it. Try increasing that with the Increment + button.

[DogDad (Adam Travis)]

Gentlemen, thank you for the assistance. Ed was correct. I needed to increase my increments. The machine was moving, but at such a small interval it was not noticeable. Now the real fun comes. Learning from the projects ahead.