Hey guys, I just reinstalled Carbide Motion on my windows machine (my regular computer is being repaired), at the same time that I set up my new bitsetter. I just ran my first job, a simple surfacing job with a 1" endmill, and it appears that for some reason I can no longer manually control the federate. It is showing a permanent velocity of 5000, and when I hit “Feedrate +10%” or “-10%” it does nothing to the actual speed. I am guessing there is something very simple that I am missing here. Any idea what it might be?
Wha version of carbide motion?
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I’m still using 428 and no issues. Haven’t tried the beta 430 yet…
Notice over on the lower left that there is a percentage number that is changing.
if you are going super fast… the machine / motion do have a max set that you can’t exceed…
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That’s the default Max speed.
Check your $110 and $111 settings
Hey guys, thanks for commenting back.
a) I am using version 4.0.428
b) Yeah I noticed that the percentage number is changing, but there is no visible difference in the actual speed.
c) As for checking my $110 and $111 settings, I’ll have to do a bit of digging to figure out what that means 
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Okay, weird. I just used a regular 201 endmill on a test run, and the feedrate adjust is working again. I am guessing I must have set up my 1 inch surfacing bit incorrectly in Aspire, I can’t figure out what else the issue might be. But the good news is, it works where I need it to.
btw 5000 is really fast (200ipm basically) and likely not what you wanted.
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I know! It’s insanely fast! That’s why I was trying to reduce the feedrate. It’s scary when a 1" bit is ripping so quickly through Purple Heart!
Yup. Stupid and dangerous mistake – the feedrate settings in Aspire were set to inches per second instead of inches per minute when I was adding the new tool to the database. Feeling embarrassed I did not catch that. Sorry for wasting everyone’s time!
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