Alright I do not usually reach out for help, but I have a problem that is driving me up a wall. I recently upgraded my CNC X and Y axes with closed loop stepper motors using CL57T drives set to 1/8 microstepping. After installing and wiring them, I started up gsender software. The next thing I did was put the dial indicator on each axis and adjust / set the steps per mm. I was using the jog buttons to move each axis a set distance and verifying that move with the dial indicator. The machine axes were moving the proper distance and are very accurate. Everything seemd alright, however is problem is the positional display. I tell the machine to move 10mm and measure 10mm, however the positional location dispalys 20mm. This is happening on all the axes, including the Z axis that is still using the DM556T stepper drive. I hooked up UGS and everything is reporting fine with that program, it is just Gsender that is having and issue between the actual position and commanded position. I know that there is no position feed back to the controller from the drive, so the way Gsender is working is based off of steps/mm. It is like the machine thinks it is set to 1/16 microstepping and the drives are set to 1/8 microstepping. I have been looking for a setting to change but have not found one. Any help / advise would be wonderful and much appreciated
Looks like no answer to this question and I am having a similar issue - my X axis when going across the full axis of my AltMill MK2 is measuring is measuring 12.724 inches, which obviously is way off. Would love an update if you fixed this!
Make sure your connected with grbl-hal and I would check $10 Status Report Options as a wrong value there could cause problems as well. I think these are the default firmware values. Probably worth taking a look at the others just to be sure. Pretty sure $13 Report in Inches should be always disabled even if you work in inches. You only need to choose inches in gSender’s settings (cogwheel) unless I’m mistaken. I use metric so I’m not posative.
That’s all I got, at least for now. Good luck!
@wallabear I realize that your question was a long time ago. Did you ever resolve your issue?
For future reference, cause we tend to forget hardware switches sometimes.
I believe @carmurph resolved his issue here: