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General Mach Discussion / Cutting wood quickly with Vectric cut2D?
« on: January 20, 2010, 04:34:24 AM »
total newbie.. just got my zenbot today and got up and running.
I think i figured most things out, i am using Vectric cut2d, and i can make gcode and import into mach 3, and cut away and everything is good in the world... except it takes 4 hours to cut a 9 inch square out of a piece of wood.
What i would like to do however is cut much faster.. i played with the feed speed in tool settings but that doesnt help much. i just spent an hour trying to figure out how to make things faster and am getting nowhere quick.. not sure if i set that in mach or cu2d.
any ideas? if i use the jog manually in mach 3 i can move those motors very quickly...
I think i figured most things out, i am using Vectric cut2d, and i can make gcode and import into mach 3, and cut away and everything is good in the world... except it takes 4 hours to cut a 9 inch square out of a piece of wood.
What i would like to do however is cut much faster.. i played with the feed speed in tool settings but that doesnt help much. i just spent an hour trying to figure out how to make things faster and am getting nowhere quick.. not sure if i set that in mach or cu2d.
any ideas? if i use the jog manually in mach 3 i can move those motors very quickly...