BALKE WORKBENCH / MAKER & MOTION
Stepper motor calculator.
Calculate stepper resolution, pulse frequency, shaft speed, and linear travel for screw and belt drives.
Motor & motion
Movement is a nonnegative magnitude. Nearest whole pulses round half upward. Motion time excludes acceleration and deceleration.
COMMAND RESOLUTION
3,200 pulses/rev
Output: 300 RPM · command: 16,000 Hz
- Full-step angle
- 1.8 °
- Command pulses / motor revolution
- 3,200
- Motor angle / command pulse
- 0.1125 °
- Motor speed
- 300 RPM
- Required pulse frequency
- 16,000 Hz
- Output speed
- 300 RPM
- Output angle / pulse
- 0.1125 °
- Travel / output revolution
- 8 mm
- Pulses / mm
- 400
- Distance / pulse
- 0.0025 mm
- Linear speed
- 40 mm/s
- Ideal pulse count
- 40,000
- Nearest whole pulse count
- 40000
- Resulting movement
- 100 mm
- Rounding error (actual − requested)
- 0 mm
- Rounded move time · constant speed
- 2.5 s
Calculation summary
Stepper Motor Calculator Motion: screw; units: mm Full steps: 200; microsteps: 16; motor rev/output rev: 1 Screw lead: 8 mm/rev Requested movement: 100 mm Full-step angle: 1.8 ° Command pulses / motor revolution: 3,200 Motor angle / command pulse: 0.1125 ° Motor speed: 300 RPM Required pulse frequency: 16,000 Hz Output speed: 300 RPM Output angle / pulse: 0.1125 ° Travel / output revolution: 8 mm Pulses / mm: 400 Distance / pulse: 0.0025 mm Linear speed: 40 mm/s Ideal pulse count: 40,000 Nearest whole pulse count: 40000 Resulting movement: 100 mm Rounding error (actual − requested): 0 mm Rounded move time · constant speed: 2.5 s Nearest pulse uses half-up rounding. Time excludes acceleration/deceleration. Commanded resolution is not positioning accuracy; no torque, maximum-speed, or missed-step prediction.