Shapeoko 3 - weird noise when jogging on all axes

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

Does the Sparkfun board have 4x or 8x micro-stepping? Are there DIP switches for changing between the twain?

Maybe try calibrating for belt stretch?

Calibrating the machines over long distances

The typical technique for machine calibration: https://my.carbide3d.com/faq/belt-stretch/ depends on precision measuring tools, and is limited by the reach of the tools in question. EDIT: It also depends on access to the MDI — if using Carbide Motion v6 it will be necessary to enable this in Settings | Options: [image] It should be possible to cut strips from a suitable blank of material, one along each axis — so we set up a square file which matches an available blank of material: [ima…