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My increasingly distant recollection of the AXYZ controller is telling me that there may well be a command that needs to be executed to activate the ATC.If you have the manual for the machine,it will...

There are several other threads about the battle to get an AXYZ machine running.Take a bit of time and read them.

First of all you need to get that RS485 working correctly or you won't be able to...

I fear that you may be headed for difficulties with racking.If you were to place two steppers on the X axis and only one on the Z axis,I believe things might improve.Just imagine the forces on the...

I may well have misunderstood.Could you provide images with the axes,preferably labelled. at both extremities of their range?

I think building a machine is absolutely the best way to have a full understanding of what makes it tick and wish you every success with your efforts.I do wonder if having a relatively long and quite...

How about a link to the thread on the Vectric forum?If somebody else comes along with the same problem,we can send them straight there.

Lets begin with the collet;this page should give you the information https://littlemachineshop.com/info/er_collet_sizes.php

To create a program you need some geometry and in the distant past we...

Good gear selection would minimise the backlash and a few months of use will quite likely introduce some wear to a toothed belt system. My choice would be a finer pitch leadscrew with direct drive...

I would suggest that the first two questions are asking the same thing in a roundabout way.It comes down to how many steps per mm and a finer pitch with no gears will move the same distance as a...

I think you may have to wait a little while,since the factory has had to pay for the components of the machine and won't see that money back until another buyer for a machine of the specification you...

I think you are being a bit harsh.I say this because three weeks ago I was talking to a man who buys some machinery from China for sale in Europe and he described the huge increase in shipping costs...

I would add that Freecad has improved a lot in the last 18 months or so and any assessment of the previous versions may be outdated.Version 0.19 or the Linux appimage are a good bit more advanced.I...

Without knowing the exact configuration of the machine and its age,the questions are difficult to answer.I don't suppose AXYZ manufactured every single component,in fact I would feel sure they bought...

From the little I know about ballscrews it would take a lot to persuade me to dismantle them.I think I would first pump quite a bit of grease through them to flush out anything that shouldn't be...

If you want to do it in the same manner as the illustration you definitely need a five axis machine.If you try to do it with a three axis machine,there will be a point where you can't achieve the...

I have had modest success using the 20 degree engraving cutters that can be had on a well known auction site quite cheaply (if you wait for them to get from China to Europe).I also used engraving...

It seems like you have cleared a major hurdle.If it cuts what it should and nothing else,you have cracked a large part of the operation.I'm a bit puzzled about the need to drip feed the program.Is...

I hope it doesn't come as too much of a shock but the comments about the amount of work involved in post #3 will apply no matter what control system you change to.As it is you have a machine with a...

To vastly over simplify,It will run all sorts of machines once you have explained to it how many steps/unit of travel.For my hobby machine,on steppers,it was mostly a case of finding out how quickly...

You may not absolutely need to home the machine every time you power it up,but I always do.It gets a bit more necessary if you lave a fixture on the machine and intend to resume cutting the same...

I'm guessing the error could be that the sample file defaulted to imperial dimensions and you may have intended to cut a metric test piece.That wouldn't be the first time somebody has done such a...

I suggest you draw a line from the tip of your tool to the corner of the Z axis plate.This may illustrate the limitation you can encounter with taller workpieces-you can't get down the side of...

Freecad -Part workbench,create sphere from primitives.Create cube the same way,move the sphere so that its centre lies on the upper surface of the cube.Merge the parts and export as an stl.Import the...

I don't think I'm the only one getting a bit fed up with reading about variations on a theme of using a calibrated drawing board to digitise an outline.We know it can be done and we know somebody who...

I won't criticise anybody for doing their best to make something work.I started with an MDF machine and drawer runners,which gradually got changed to SBR12 rails.I also use a much derided breakout...