Hey all y’all. Thank you so much for your answers on helping me getting my xl up and running. I’m trying my first pay for gig and am having machine run time questions. The file I’m trying to cut is out of 3/4 MDF of the pictures I’ve attached. Motion is saying that the cut time will be 21 hours with the default settings at 10000rpm with a 1/8" endmill cutting all the way thru the MDF. I’ve tried to adjust the speed, stepover and feed rates and the time never changes. Any of y’all ever run into that? That said does anybody have suggestions for the machine speed etc efficently run this job. It’s with a #102 bit. Thanks TMFD!
Well I can’t figure out how to attach a screenshot of the art but would like to if anybody can suggest how to do that
Depth will effect time by producing more or less levels to cut through the stock.
Stepover will control the number of passes to clear an area.
And feedrate, the faster you go the less time it takes.
To paste a picture in a message, just drag the picture into the window where you are typing. Same with any other allowable file.
Awesome and thank you! Messing with the rates I got it running but have a whole new problem.
for some reason my X cuts are moving offline from the drawing. The first one seemed awesome then they started stepping. Any ideas?
There should be no need to add pocketing geometry on such a thin material (mdf?) with such a small endmill. I reckon you could cut brass with that tool and pattern without any ‘slotting’ issues.
Is it possible the drawing is too wide and your X-axis hit one side of the machine and missed some steps?
