Initial PNC Calibration Issues for the Zing Orbit (bug?)
Posted: Sat May 26, 2018 8:41 pm
Posted some of this on Facebook group, but sharing here as well in case someone official has an official answer.
Did my first attempt at PNC calibration. As noted in the documentation, I did the Resolution Calibration first. Did a 10" square and with the pen and voila... got a 10" square!
Next I followed the instructions for PNC calibration. Printed the four arrows with the registration marks. Set the pin in the first one correctly and then swapped for the blade (same holder of course). Scan worked on the first one, then couldn't find the second one (RED LIGHT!). Tried several more times. Same result.
Gave up.
Then went to cut something that I'd cut the previous day just fine and now the X-calibration was all messed up. Project had not changed (and before PNC, the 10" square was correct). Y-calibration was still 1.0, but now the machine/SCAL thought I needed about .878 for the X-factor. Everything was cut too long in the X direction. So after futzing with that back and forth, I got my project to now cut correctly. Nothing was wrong before PNC attempt, but after, it just messed up.
So realizing that the PNC had messed up the X calibration, I thought tonight I'd try to PNC again... since that was probably was the second registration was not seen, it was looking too far over.
And I was right!
So now the registration marks are getting seen correctly. Yay!
However, in the attempt to get my cutter working in proper proportion the night before, I'd "Set Defaults" on the Edit Values screen to restore that back to normal.
So it read "-36.7, 7.225mm" -- Wowza.
When I did my test PNC, the cuts were WAYYYYYY off. In fact, they were too low by 34.5mm and too left by 7.9mm.
So I spent time clicking arrows (that should be fixed, BTW -- let us enter the values please!!!!) Over 1300 clicks to set the up value!!! But I did, I got them all correct. Hit APPLY, then hit SAVE and repeated the cut on a new sample.
Registration marks scanned and it cut in EXACTLY the same place as the previous one! When I went to the screen to get the values, they'd reset to the old ones "-36.7, 7.225mm"
So I'm giving up again for the night.
I'm hoping someone can direct me to a reset option... Can I remove the cutter and readd it perhaps to SCAL to get this back on track.
I don't know what messed up my X-Y calibration in the first place with just doing the PNC setup, but boy did it.
Did my first attempt at PNC calibration. As noted in the documentation, I did the Resolution Calibration first. Did a 10" square and with the pen and voila... got a 10" square!
Next I followed the instructions for PNC calibration. Printed the four arrows with the registration marks. Set the pin in the first one correctly and then swapped for the blade (same holder of course). Scan worked on the first one, then couldn't find the second one (RED LIGHT!). Tried several more times. Same result.
Gave up.
Then went to cut something that I'd cut the previous day just fine and now the X-calibration was all messed up. Project had not changed (and before PNC, the 10" square was correct). Y-calibration was still 1.0, but now the machine/SCAL thought I needed about .878 for the X-factor. Everything was cut too long in the X direction. So after futzing with that back and forth, I got my project to now cut correctly. Nothing was wrong before PNC attempt, but after, it just messed up.
So realizing that the PNC had messed up the X calibration, I thought tonight I'd try to PNC again... since that was probably was the second registration was not seen, it was looking too far over.
And I was right!
So now the registration marks are getting seen correctly. Yay!
However, in the attempt to get my cutter working in proper proportion the night before, I'd "Set Defaults" on the Edit Values screen to restore that back to normal.
So it read "-36.7, 7.225mm" -- Wowza.
When I did my test PNC, the cuts were WAYYYYYY off. In fact, they were too low by 34.5mm and too left by 7.9mm.
So I spent time clicking arrows (that should be fixed, BTW -- let us enter the values please!!!!) Over 1300 clicks to set the up value!!! But I did, I got them all correct. Hit APPLY, then hit SAVE and repeated the cut on a new sample.
Registration marks scanned and it cut in EXACTLY the same place as the previous one! When I went to the screen to get the values, they'd reset to the old ones "-36.7, 7.225mm"
So I'm giving up again for the night.
I'm hoping someone can direct me to a reset option... Can I remove the cutter and readd it perhaps to SCAL to get this back on track.
I don't know what messed up my X-Y calibration in the first place with just doing the PNC setup, but boy did it.