I’m just getting into aluminum and find the wiki … challenging. There are little tidbits of info scattered about in various sections, including some that seem to conflict. Climb vs. conventional is one of them. I will happily volunteer to try and clean this up if we can resolve the information. Exam…

Good initiative to clean up the wiki on this, I agree it’s very confusing. Short answer: The Shapeoko is a CNC mill, climb-cut everything. On manual milling machines, climb-cutting is difficult or even dangerous, because the cutting forces have large components in the positive feed direction, mean…

Cleaning up the wiki on climb vs. conventional milling

CNC Machines Shapeoko

WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D)) March 9, 2020, 4:37pm 11

See some further discussion on this at:

https://shapeokoenthusiasts.gitbook.io/shapeoko-cnc-a-to-z/feeds-and-speeds-basics
https://shapeokoenthusiasts.gitbook.io/shapeoko-cnc-a-to-z/x-y-z-calibration

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