Sorry for getting your name wrong And not answering the question in total. The STEPGEN_MAX setting is to tell the software step generator what its upper limit is for both velocity and acceleration. You should have these settings set at about 25% higher than what you expect your machine to go at. On 2014-01-06 07:11, Marius Liebenberg wrote: > Joshia > As far as I know the settings in the INI file is in IN/SEC or MM/SEC. > Just check for yourself in the Manual to be sure. > > On 2014-01-06 07:01, Josiah Morgan wrote: >> can anyone explain what this is? >> I have a stepper that should be able to operate at 1000 in/min but linuxcnc >> won't let me enter a value higher than 31.25 for the STEPGEN_MAX_VEL. even >> with STEPGEN_MAX_VEL at 31.25, it will still let me drive the axis much >> faster than that, so I have to wonder what this value even does and how I >> can determine what this value needs to be. >> >> TYPE = LINEAR >> MAX_VELOCITY = 1000.0 >> MAX_ACCELERATION = 500.0 >> # Set Stepgen max 20% higher than the axis >> STEPGEN_MAX_VEL = 31.25 ??!!?? >> STEPGEN_MAX_ACC = 300 ??!!?? >> >> thanks again for all the help. >>
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