I just wanted to put a plug in here for those who may not have upgraded Carbide Motion in a while. I’m pretty sure I hadn’t since I first purchased my Pro5 a year ago. I was running 640 the whole time until recently I upgraded to 659. The improvements are REALLY great.
The ones I noticed immediately were:
When finishing the carve the spindle heads to the back right so when you start up the CNC next time there is next to no travel time.
Jogging is SO much faster!
“Bits used” screen is much more pleasant on my aging eyes (larger font inside a nice boxed in area for each bit).
Those are the improvements that I noticed immediately and I’m sure there are more that I haven’t utilized. But…HOLY COW! Just those are awesome. So if you haven’t upgraded in a while, I surely HIGHLY recommend it!
Gary,I am on the latest CM and been doing some long hours over the past few days v carving and what I notice how robust for want of a better phrase it is,I get a confident vibe using it.
I agree, the latest is great, but I don’t really like that at the end of the job, the spindle goes to the home position. Scares me to death that I have successfully completed a carve and off it goes into the wild blue yonder. Perfered the old way where is stops until I am ready to move it. Just saying.
I was scared to death for another reason yesterday.
I hit start on a job and my air compressor kicked on at that instant due to a small leak in the system. Is is about 2 feet from my CNC. I jumped out of my skin.
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