Greetings community
Every time one of you suggests or provides knowledge to others who seek help to be able to undertake better, they are blessings that are added to your life. That being said, I hope someone from this great forum can help me. My machine is the Shapeoko 4, the detail is that every time I put material in this case 9"x8" and 0.55" thick I want to remove a wheel as a perfect hole goes through my work material and I have made several I tried and changed the drill bit previously, set the #205 then change to the #201 both EndMills. I verified the cables and verified the belts and verified the screws, including the motors, and verified whether there was a need to tighten the screws inside or anything. verified in Z if the screw is broken. Everything looks correct and perfect. Thank you for the suggestions, blessings to everyone who reads and especially to those who contribute their knowledge
What sort of tool are you using to make this cut?
What sort of toolpath?
Please note that the Drill toolpath requires a bit of finesse in terms of plunge rate and other settings — best practice is to use a pocket toolpath and a smaller tool and if need be, leave a roughing clearance and make a finishing pass.
Which Z-axis does your SO4 have? The default is a Z-Plus.
Could you pot overall photos of your machine and a detail photo of your Z-Plus?
Also the .c2d file you are trying to cut and a photo showing how the cut turned out and a clearer description of the problem you are having/the sort of cut you are expecting?
Looks like your holes are 2" - 3" dia??
One way to do this is to offset the hole vector inside by about 150% of the tool dia (0.375), then cut it as a pocket.
I would cut about 0.525" - 0.540" deep to leave a thin layer to hold the plug steady.
Break the plug out, then do a final contour path to clean up the bottom at 0.550" or 0.560" to be sure.
Another way, if you have CC Pro with ramping, is to “Hole Mill” it. Do a contour cut with inside offset. Set the depth per pass on the tool deeper than the hole, and us a ramp of 0.5° - 0.25°.
It will spiral (actually helical) cut down the bottom then make one planar pass around the bottom of the hole. Note that the spiral engage uses the plunge feedrate.
I don’t know what’s happening, I just followed one of the suggestions of setting the depth to 0.525 and it still goes deeper than what I set. Cautiously check all the parameters, even change the drill bit to a 1/8 previously 1/4. it’s very frustrating. Thank you
How are you setting the zero relative to the stock?
bringing it as close as possible that a sheet of paper does not pass.
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