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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cutting wood quickly with Vectric cut2D?

« on: January 20, 2010, 11:15:49 PM »

Ok not much is happening... i can overide the feed rate but its still going slower than i think it should... im just cutting wood with a 35,000 RPM 1/8 cutter. 

I like Hoods suggestion modifiying the GCODE but the code for my project doesnt have an F value anywhere, here are the first couple of lines:

N0 G0 X0.000 Y0.000 Z6.025
N1 G0 X95.922 Y40.631 Z5.999
N2 g1 X95.922 Y40.631 Z-1.524
N3 g1 X95.874 Y40.967 Z-1.524

if I manually add an f value does that overide the feed rate?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cutting wood quickly with Vectric cut2D?

« on: January 20, 2010, 12:09:04 PM »

thx ill try that out...

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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...