I'm guessing that peeps do have lives outside of MyCNC...

[m_c]

Careful there!
Some of those acusations might upset people :-)


Since I finally have a working CNC, I've been too busy ordering the final bits and tweaking G-code to worry about posting here.
My excitement for tonight was managing to reduce machining time for one part by 10 seconds to just under 2 minutes, just by tweaking tool change positions and increasing the drilling peck depth. I'm aiming for sub 1:30, which I think is acheivable, as going by spindle current I can drop one of the roughing operations, which also means the chipbreaker on the insert should actually work removing the need to continually remove strands of alu before they wrap around the chuck. Also I'm hoping to figure out some way to tweak the drilling operation, as pecking at 3mm intervals to stop the drill clogging in a 32mm deep hole is time consuming. Might swap that to manual code, as I reckon the first 15-20mm can be done without pecking but with just short pauses to break the strands, before going to full retraction pecking to prevent clogging...
Tomorrow's excitement will be tweaking the code on the mating part, which could result in tears, as I need to see how hard I can push the 8mm boring bar...

[Jonathan]

I've been having far too much fun making a CNC router over the past few days to post here...

Also I'm hoping to figure out some way to tweak the drilling operation, as pecking at 3mm intervals to stop the drill clogging in a 32mm deep hole is time consuming. Might swap that to manual code, as I reckon the first 15-20mm can be done without pecking but with just short pauses to break the strands, before going to full retraction pecking to prevent clogging...

I've done that before now in aluminium and nylon when I've had a lot of holes to drill. Find and replace works well, especially if you open it in notepad++