so, here is where i am at... i tried creating a new configuration, and it was working great, with the exception that a move of 1 inch, caused it to move about 3.5 feet (roughly).
so, i have a 200 steps per rotation stepper, the drivers are all set to 1600 pulse (microstepping setting of 8? and the pitch of the ballscrew i think is 5mm.
i had 200 set for the steps per rev, microstepping of 8, ratio of 1:1 (direct drive), and (don't remember the setting name) was set to 127. (revs per inch?) i arrived at 127 by 5mm_pitch X 25.4. i also tried the result of 5 / 25.4 (0.1968), with no better results.
my mind is so frazzled, i wonder if i should have even converted to inches. but the problems i had converting from inches to mm in the G code, seemed to out-weigh the conversion process (so i thought).
other than existing, what am i doing wrong?
~Travis