motor shield and stepper motor set up.. HELP!!

[bigwestwc]

HI, after playing with the arduino for about 3 months i decided to buy my self a motor shield.im trying to use a 6 wire stepper motor with the preloaded stepper sketch that comes loaded on the arduino platform. can anyone help me. by default the sketch uses pins (8,9,10,11) should i change those? or should the adafruit motor shield recognize them? when i hook it up straight to the arduino the stepper works. just cant seem to figure out how to connect it to the shield. im using 4 wires the other 2 seems to work with out just fine. thx

[adafruit_support_bill]

You need to use the AFMotor library or the AFMotor compatible version of the AccelStepper library. Both are available here: http://www.ladyada.net/make/mshield/download.html

[bigwestwc]

ok, I see now. I was wondering why the AFmotor library wasn't being recognized. one more question. do i need to download both libraries? i see they both say to rename to the same name (AFmotor). whitch one would be the best to download, i plan on building me a cnc router and will be working with stepper motors and probably some servos on other projects. thank you again.

[adafruit_support_bill]

For CNC work you will want the AccelStepper library. It has the capability to move multiple steppers simultaneously.

For servos, use the Servo library that comes with the IDE.

[bigwestwc]

i figured it would be the AccelStepper library for a CNC project. Thank you for the fast replys