Oh ok. I haven’t downloaded the newest version yet. I’m getting ready to cut a name sign so maybe I’ll download it and give it a shot.
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I downloaded the new version and it ran without issue. The noise is still there (maybe slightly less), but the faster rapids are much appreciated.
I’ve mentioned this before in another thread, but since this is specific for the s5 I’ll mention it here as well. My s3 retracts to z home when I hit pause. My s5 does not. The s5 just acts like a feed hold and keeps the cutter down in the material and the router still running. I don’t see the point in a pause that doesn’t retract the z axis. Can this be added into the 5 so that adjustments can be made? Sometimes a chunk of wood comes loose and it’s easy to fix if the z is home, or the sweepy needs a quick adjustment. I can’t imagine this would be a hard fix and it would be greatly appreciated. I can’t pull the sweepy off when the endmill is still buried in the material.
That pause behavior is how industrial machinery acts when you hit “Feed Hold”. It has that behavior so you can pause it, check it’s position in the machine versus the coordinates to make sure it’s where it should be.
For fear of adding too much complexity, maybe they have it be an option in settings for the feed hold behavior?
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In a typical industrial cnc, yes, that’s exactly what the feed hold does. However, after 3 years of having a s3 I have become accustomed to having that type of pause on this particular machine. If there is a simple way of retracting and then continuing on with the cut, I’m all ears. I was an hour into a job and had to pause it and found this out the hard way. It was just a nice feature and something I’d like to have back if possible. I’ve had to remove the sweepy in several jobs because it has pulled up masking or removed pieces I wasn’t expecting and it was nice to be able to fix the issue and continue on with the cut.
If this is in a setting somewhere then I’d love to know it’s location because it’s something I miss.
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Thanks, that is really useful
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Good afternoon lucky Shapeoko 5 Pro owners, I have a quick question which, granted might have already been answered. I already have a Shapeoko 3 xxl, and I was wondering whether with the added rigidity and the uprated VFD spindle, does this increase the feed & speeds for machining and additionally whether when loading data from carbide create into motion, is this automatically calculated.
Another question for the hive mind is: I have a pro subscription, do I need to have an additional licence for running of two separate machines and would people recommend an additional computer to run these two separate machines?
Thank you all for the inspiration and ‘have fun machining’.
At this time we don’t have feeds and speeds specific to the SO5 Pro — some folks have been using the feeds and speeds for the HDM, just reducing the depth per pass at first, and then increasing it gradually for a given material.
One Carbide Create Pro license will create G-code for as many machines as you wish to use it with.
It would be nice to have a second computer for the second machine, but it’s not strictly necessary — the new CMv6 will identify machines by board type, so it can tell an SO3 from an SO5 Pro and will maintain different preferences for each.
Thank you for the clarification. I think my preference will be to run two ‘cheap’ laptop controllers in the workshop and keep the Mac in the office to reduce the amount of dust getting to it.
Is there an aspiration to create bespoke feeds & speeds in up-coming software upgrades? Only because I am still not confident enough to muck around with them, especially when most of the time the machine is running is for clients items verses me actually just playing for interest. Maybe I will get a bit more time to do this once I retire from the military in October ( hence getting another machine to start doing this full time).
I would be surprised if that is not the case.
FWIW, for now, I just use the stock feeds and speeds and then use feed rate override to speed things up. (I don’t get to use my machine as much as I’d like, and stock is expensive, and reliability is more important to me than time once I’ve committed to a cut).
I guess the big question is how well the SO HDM feeds and speeds (at say half depth per pass) work for folks — I know my machine has made some full-depth cuts when I’ve gotten the Z-axis zero wrong, and even 200% at the SO stock feeds and speeds doesn’t seem taxing.
Thank you, that is reassuring.
I have found that all of the default speeds and speeds are very conservative for all of the machines. Especially if you have a spindle on the S4/S4Pro/S5Pro. I agree with Will that The HDM feeds/speeds are a good starting point with a 1/2 or 3/4 of the depth of cut. I still run heavier than that by a good amount on my S5Pro, but I also have a lot of experience with Shapeoko machines.
But that is what default feeds/speeds are for. As a starting point that will achieve success, that can be improved upon as experience is gained.
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Carbide Motion is evolving. However past versions of CM that you tried to run 2 different Shapeoko models needed to have the configuration sent. CM remembers the last machine used and uses those parameters for the machine you are currently hooked up. For example I have had an SO3 XL and SO3 XXL and if the XXL was used last and hooked up to an XL CM thought it was still an XXL. So I would just send the configuration when I got started so I did not have to remember which machine I used last. If CM is aware of which machine you are running then great but you might still send the configuration when starting to be safe. Each C3D model has different parameters so just make sure when switching machines that the one you are operating is the one that CM thinks it is running.
When you send the configuration in CM it is mostly setting up CM.
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