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General Mach Discussion / Re: micromachinng surface finish

« on: April 20, 2010, 05:07:54 PM »

Thanks for your opinions, everyone.

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General Mach Discussion / micromachinng surface finish

« on: April 19, 2010, 06:08:54 PM »

Hi everyone.  New to the forum.

I will be doing some very fine micromachining for which I require a very smooth cut and finish.
Seems there are not that many choices available in my price range. 

Here's an excerpt of an article on the web:

Initially, MACH 3™ was chosen as the control software, and the output was sent to a stepper motor driver controller. Since the computer was running the driver software and CAM software, the commands in MACH 3™ were not occurring in “real-time”, and thus, there was a slight time lag due to the multiple computer processing needs. Figure 4a shows a complex precision part cut using the MACH 3™ software and the resultant stair-stepping on the cutting surface

Link to original paper:
http://www.sefi.be/wp-content/abstracts2009/Otieno.pdf

Can any "gurus" verify the above statement?  Is this indeed an issue for micromachining like in the example above?  Or an issue of not knowing the Mach3 software well enough?

thank you.