looks like your bit went haywire on you bruh this is known as DROP the BIT 
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Looks like your losing steps on the Z axis stepper. This is usually an issue of not getting a clean electrical signal to the stepper motor. Dirty AC power, running router or dust collection on the same circuit as the controller, faulty grounding, poor connection at the cable connectors, router cable run with the stepper motor cables (best to run the router cable up with the dust collection hose), trying to cut too deep/too fast are all possible causes.
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You have officially christined your OF, welcome aboard. My .02 is to home your machine, raise Z to about 2", and set Z at that height, and run your toolpath. Video it and see if it “ramps down” in the air as it moves left to right. Stop the program after a few passes. BTW, my new spoilboard has a nice 1/4" pocket in it at bottom left, looks kinda cool! Perhaps I will fill it with epoxy and engrave my name in it. 
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I hope it’s something related to the z stepper like others have mentioned but could your table be out of level that much? It’s a quick check w/ a level(or straight edge) and a combo square wrt your machine
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I swear in the picture, the table top looks bowed up. Is your table dead flat left to right? If not, the machine is trying to make it flat.
Throw a level on it and check.
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It looks to me that right at the beginning of your program, the cut is much deeper than .02"
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Thank you all for your comments, questions, and suggestions. I’ll be collecting everything and responding to the thread this weekend. Hope everyone has an awesome 3 days weekend!!
Hey everyone -
So I think the Z Axis was damaged somehow in transit. I took video and shared it via Google Photos
The Z axis wants to do whatever it wants.
In the video you’ll see me attempt to HOME, not PROBE, the Z axis. Mind you, X and Y are not exhibiting any issues at all. You’ll see the Z axis go from about the middle, to the bottom, then go back up and error out.
Additionally, when using the controller (I’ve used 2 to be sure this is not a controller issue), moving the Z axis up and down doesn’t respond to what it should. Sometime it goes up, sometimes it goes down, even though I’m using the controller and telling it to go in the same direction. Sometimes, while hold the controller to have the Z axis go down, it will do all the way down to the bottom then come back up. I stop, then hit the controller to go down and it goes up.
This is a new product and right now acting like a very expensive paper weight. Really hurts seeing this as like everyone else, waited a long time to get to this point.
Thoughts?
Thank you all!!
Hey Craig,
in this case I would send an E-mail to support@onefinitycnc.com
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Thank youAiph5u. Email has been sent.
Craig,
This looks like a firmware issue, have you upgraded your machine to 1.09 yet by any chance? I would try that if you have not. If you have Support might have you re-flash the firmware but they will reach out and help you with that. In the meantime I would see if your machine is at the latest version.
-Alex
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Hi Alex -
Very good question. Yes, machine is running latest firmware. If there are instructions on how to re-flash the same firmware, please point me to it and I can take care of that today.
Thank you,
Craig
Here are the instructions, I am not support but I do believe this is the problem.
If you get stuck you will need to wait for support to get back to you.
-Alex
Hey Craig,
rather than having something to do with firmware I would suspect it to be an issue with the cabling to Z stepper.
It would be nice if you report to the forum what it was after support helped you.
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I plan on doing that. Without it, to me the thread would be a waste. Learning along with everyone else and sharing is the plan.
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100% a bad wire/connection on the z axis. Every time a axis moves hits the end and reverses and never stops it is a wire issue.
Check this faq to diagnose your wire issue:
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I had some odd results with one of my Y-rails when I first set up my machine. It also seemed to have a mind of its own. After some debugging, I eventually discovered a single pin inside the connector on the rail was bent up slightly to where it was able to slide over the top of the inserted plug instead of into the appropriate hole. It may be worth a look.
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Everyone -
I’ve identified the issue. It is either the Z Coil Cable, or the Z-Cable connecting to the controller from the coil. Luckily I purchased an extended cable from Etsy and figured I’d use it to test. Sure enough, the Z works 100%. At any speed.
Support did get back to me requesting to run some test cut files, which was scary enough as we already saw what happened to my spoilboard. I held off on the test cuts and took video of the default coil cable setup and the 3rd party cable. I’m hoping they will send me replacements cables. We’ll see.
For anyone that wants to see what’s going on, here is the video with the default coil cable:
You will see the Z Axis not only wants to do its own Up/Down, but at slower speeds it sounds like it’s binding, which it isn’t.
Here’s the video with the 3rd party cable showing the Z-axis working perfectly. At any speed.
Thank you,
Craig
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One item I forgot to mention - I did check the connectors and did not see anything out of the norm. But while going through the machine (checking connections, screws, leveling, etc., I did find what looks to be a missing screw and 2 damaged screws:
I really don’t know how to feel at this point. So many weird issues right out of the box. Extremely frustrated but very hopeful this will all get resolved and I can finally start my adventure into CNC.
Thank you all for your replies!! Wasn’t expecting such a wonderful showing of support. Truly appreciated!
Thank you,
Craig
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Now i feel a little worried, I’m still waiting on my journeyman, which is fine…but i’m in Australia, so a long way for any "replacements’ to come.
Oh well, guess i just have to trust all will be OK
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