The travel is the cutting area. So in theory you could cut a 690x535mm square
I have been very hard on the HDM but it’s a very different beast to a regular shapeoko.
Both myself and Winston are posting content as we can - well worth a look:
https://www.instagram.com/luke.thebeaver/
https://www.instagram.com/winstonmakes/
I’d say most of my work so far has been 20mm DOC and 2000mm feeds and speeds at 0.5mm load. however yesterday I was working on detailed work and was running 4000mm a min 0.05mm DOC and load. It’s a very versatile machine.