Circles cutting as ovals

I have been using my rotary and trying to switch back to regular cutting. No issues with homing origin. When trying to cut a circle, it is coming out as an oval. Its like it is struck in rotary mode.

I have ensured that my rotary is disabled, have also deleted all prefs and reloaded machine a few times now.
Reset the machine upwards of 20 times now. No luck

Spinning my wheels. Have used the rotary before and not run in to this.

Only way I can get mine to go back to normal is to disable the rotary, shut off the machine, unplug the rotary and plug the y axis back in and restart. That works every time for me.

hmm - did these steps and its not recognizing.
I just redid your exact steps as well and still busting out ovals.

Weird. Only other thing I’ve had do that is when I had my machine bed dimensions off. That was very early on though and I was off on my mm to inches conversion. :slight_smile:

Check your $100 and $101 settings. They “should” be the same.

You can get them by putting $$ in the console window or going to machine settings under edit.

Ahhh - the machine I use is controlled with a Ruida - no console or GRBL control. On to the next idea.

Oh, ya, next is the right idea.
I tried.

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Is it possible that the steps/rev are still being seen as whatever the rotary was/is set up for?
Do you have a backup of your machine settings that you can reload into LightBurn and push back into the Ruida controller?

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I feel like this is exactly what my issue is… it is acting like the rotary is still engaged. It definitely is disabled. I have reconnected the rotary and gone through the steps to disengage. It def is no longer enabled in the Rotary set up tab.
I don’t have a back up file. I have deleted all my prefs and reinstalled the machine about 7 times now. My understanding as that this would rest back to default but still cutting ovals.

Steven!
You’re my Hero.
Your response prompted me to open the vendor settings and yep - the X and Y step length did not match. Updated the Y setting to match my X and I am back to slaying my circles over here.
Thank you!!

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