Visible steps when engraving (but only sometimes)

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@Bishy83

Same material, same settings

This sound ominously familiar:

Curved lines suddenly squiggly

Hi, so I have been burning lazy susan heads and some other designs that involve lots of curved lines. No big deal. It’s been working fine. All of a sudden, however, the machine is turning curved lines into squiggly lines. No idea what’s up. I’ve cleaned the gantry rails and reapplied new grease. I even redownloaded the files as SVGs and the same issue is happening, so it’s not a software issue as far as I know (they burned correctly for several days and now there’s the issue.)( I’ve attache…

There is no resolution yet, but if you work through the same tests and also find nothing wrong, that’s a useful data point.

How big are those pieces you’re engraving? That will give us some idea of the overall scale: are the ripples 0.1 mm or 1 mm long?

Do the “good” and “bad” results differ in alignment with respect to the axes?