Lol well it sound like you need to do some studying bud. I've been studying diy cnc for the last 2 years, I bought a bunch of stuff to build a machine from scratch, steppers and stepper drives, I then sold all that except my linear rails and screws, studied mor and more and bought components for my knee mill, going servos this time, I've always liked Allen Bradley stuff, and found super deals on the components. But I'll say that I studied the manuals over and over, and over some more, and when it came time to power things up It was seamless, I was cutting parts that day, wishing I would have spent more time learning the cam program I bought 2 years ago. The only hiccup I had was electronic gearing, I asked on another forum how to use it, then it suddenly clicked before I got an answer. Basically my setup with the mechanical 3:1 drive ratio, and 2000 line encoders (quadrature count is 8000/rev) with a 5tpi screw, it was 120,000 steps per inch, very high step resolution but slooooow rapids. So in the drive I could make it to where every step pulse coming in was 2 steps going out to the motor, I think I did a 3:1 electronic gearing and got my rapid speed up to 100ipm with a resolution of around half a tenth or smaller.
Have you gotten a cnc machine up and running yet?
