My machine is slightly out of square and would like to square it manually but I can’t find a way to jog only one Y motor short of disconnecting the other motor. Is there a hidden way to do that in gsender?
The quick fix is to jog the y-axis all the way up or down untill both steppers start to protest. If your machine was square, it will be squared again.
The other way might be to use the calibration tool. I say might, for I never used it so I am guessing that it somehow will be able to correct u squareness.
A third way is to maybe turn ballsrews on a single axis by hand and then use the calibration tool.
Update: I took the time to look into the squaring tool and it seems you have to manualy turn the ball screw to move your machine into squareness. It’s still a usefull tool, though. I might run it myself soon just to see how my machine is doing.
One thing I have done is just manually turn the lead screw on the axis that needs to be moved - since I used to be about 1/2 turn out of square, my process was to stall the axis out at the end of travel, back it off the end, then turn the lead screw 1/2 turn in the correct direction.
When the axis isn’t being actively jogged, the motors don’t apply any holding force, and so you can easily do that.
Hope that helps - and it’s probably easier and maybe a bit more accurate than trying to jog only one motor.
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thank you I’ll just do it manually then.