# Cutting out of square **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [May 3, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.arcdroidcnc.com/t/cutting-out-of-square/5226 "2025-05-03T20:37:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cmsnazzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cmsnazzy](https://forum.arcdroidcnc.com/u/cmsnazzy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.arcdroidcnc.com/t/cutting-out-of-square/5226/1 "2025-05-03T20:37:14Z")
Howdy. Having issues with the AD not cutting square. I have updated and recalibrated it very carefully multiple times. Arms are tight belts are tight. No slop when locking the steppers. If I trace the triangle of the index points on the calibration triangle it is clearly out of square. I posted in the FB page as well. Any ideas? ![20250503_162200](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/arcdroidcnc/original/2X/4/424276a82c96d74f630597cb74d263db460431f2.jpeg) ![20250503_162419](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/arcdroidcnc/original/2X/8/8f5beccaa708d5eca7b80867ba34d5c8334a5e9d.jpeg) ![20250503_162500](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/arcdroidcnc/original/2X/6/6ac6579a20eb0cc8ff6e1167c8a0e02c0997625a.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Jdd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/db5fbb/32.png) [@Jdd](https://forum.arcdroidcnc.com/u/Jdd)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.arcdroidcnc.com/t/cutting-out-of-square/5226/2 "2025-05-03T20:46:53Z")
Did you go back to factory calibration then do your calibration or are you stacking bad on top of bad? ---
**Author:** ![cmsnazzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cmsnazzy](https://forum.arcdroidcnc.com/u/cmsnazzy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.arcdroidcnc.com/t/cutting-out-of-square/5226/3 "2025-05-03T20:49:01Z")
I tried both. The first time I kept the old settings, but the next two times I reverted to factory. ---
**Author:** ![BobD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BobD](https://forum.arcdroidcnc.com/u/BobD)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.arcdroidcnc.com/t/cutting-out-of-square/5226/4 "2025-05-03T21:26:14Z")
You don’t by chance have something entered for A (angle) in the Transform screen? If that is at zero I suppose you could enter an angle to comp your results square. I also see that your calibration triangle has one side going thru the interference arc of the Droids work envelope. Maybe try a calibration with the triangle spaced away from the base plate some. ---
**Author:** ![cmsnazzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cmsnazzy](https://forum.arcdroidcnc.com/u/cmsnazzy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.arcdroidcnc.com/t/cutting-out-of-square/5226/5 "2025-05-03T22:03:17Z")
It’s not that the parts are rotated but that the X and Y resolution is unequal. I can’t just offset the resultant cut. If the calibration triangle line shouldn’t go through the machine interference line then that definitely indicates a problem with how the arcdroid is resolving the position. ---
**Author:** ![2strokeforever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/90db22/32.png) [@2strokeforever](https://forum.arcdroidcnc.com/u/2strokeforever)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 8:08am UTC](https://forum.arcdroidcnc.com/t/cutting-out-of-square/5226/6 "2025-05-05T08:08:10Z")
I noticed that sometimes if when i home when forst starting up if the arm is too close to home it dosent home one arm. maybe that could cause your issue? to fix it i pull the arm out before homing ---
**Author:** ![cmsnazzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cmsnazzy](https://forum.arcdroidcnc.com/u/cmsnazzy)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.arcdroidcnc.com/t/cutting-out-of-square/5226/7 "2025-05-05T16:29:30Z")
A user on the Facebook page suggested a manual Gcode zero and shut off. That seems to have fixed the issue for now. ![Screenshot_20250505_085331_Gallery](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/arcdroidcnc/original/2X/8/850b2ad7c54afa75837aa3358e1390f91854a8cf.jpeg)