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jonathanfi-
shbein1
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Post Dimensioning
on: December 6, 2014, 18:50
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The gondola is only going halfway to the edge of the page width

kongorilla
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Post Re: Dimensioning
on: December 7, 2014, 01:11
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You're not giving us much to go on. The gondola goes all the way to the bottom correctly, but not side to side? If you do a drawing, is it squeezed too thin (the aspect ratio is wrong)?

jonathanfi-
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Post Re: Dimensioning
on: December 14, 2014, 20:58
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# *** Polargraph properties file ***
#Sun Oct 19 17:38:29 EDT 2014
controller.pixel.samplearea=10
controller.pictureframe.position.y=190
controller.pictureframe.position.x=190
controller.testPenWidth.startSize=0.5
controller.machine.colour=969696
machine.motors.mmPerRev=95.0
controller.window.width=863
controller.frame.colour=C80000
controller.image.position.y=130
controller.image.position.x=112
machine.motors.accel=400
controller.image.height=712
controller.machine.serialport=0
controller.window.height=996
controller.maxSegmentLength=2
machine.penlift.up=180
machine.penlift.down=90
controller.page.position.y=119
controller.vector.scaling=100
controller.page.position.x=108
controller.pictureframe.width=95
machine.step.multiplier=1
controller.grid.size=75.0
controller.testPenWidth.endSize=2
controller.pictureframe.height=95
controller.page.colour=DCDCDC
controller.testPenWidth.incrementSize=0.5
controller.image.width=551
machine.motors.stepsPerRev=800.0
machine.pen.size=0.8
controller.page.width=558
controller.pixel.mask.color=00FF00
controller.machine.baudrate=57600
controller.vector.minLineLength=0
machine.width=775
controller.page.height=760
controller.vector.position.y=0
controller.background.colour=646464
controller.image.filename=/home/user/Desktop/Meudon-01-e1334262204479.jpg
controller.vector.position.x=0
controller.homepoint.y=119
controller.guide.colour=FFFFFF
machine.motors.maxSpeed=600
controller.homepoint.x=387
controller.density.preview.style=2
controller.pixel.scaling=1
controller.densitypreview.colour=000000
machine.height=1220

kongorilla, thanks for responding. I realize this is free tech support so I am thankful My brief initial post was in the hopes that someone had experienced this issue before. Posted above is my setup configuration. When I match up my picture under the input tab with the 'white' page height and width I get a drawn picture that is half the size in both the x and y axises

sandy
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sandy
Post Re: Dimensioning
on: December 14, 2014, 23:27
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You didnt say what kind of machine you have either, what motors or driver - and thats pretty critical. I think I remember that you've got a PolargraphSD 2.0 kit though - so your machine settings need a little work. Look at
http://www.polargraph.co.uk/setup/polargraphsd-controller-application/ for the correct numbers:

machine.motors.stepsPerRev=400
machine.step.multiplier=8

To change these, you're best off editing the default.properties.text file directly rather than using the sliders in the interface. Changing the stepsPerRev value in the controller has a bad habit of throwing the rest of the machine sizes off, so avoid it if you can!

Of course, remember to upload your machine spec once you've updated it.

Sn

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