Thanks for that,

The new interface is much cleaner and I especially like the new jog tab rather than the old one hiding most of the DROs.

I've now had the machine cut the holes to attach its bed extrusions to the frame and it did that really well apart from on mishap where for some reason the mchine decided it was going to rapid and ramp to the first drilling spot. It made a nice gouge in the extrusion before I realised what was happening and hit my e-stop (which worked perfectly). I didn't snap the tool which is a blessing and I guess the 5mm carbide end mill went into the material by about 4mm before I caught it. A quick reset and zero and all was well , so not quite sure what happened as it had just cut the countbores on a seperate G-Code job before hand.

Anyway after resetting and cutting a bunch of holes to finish the bed without mishap, I have just "air cut" my first 3D part and it seemed to work OK. I do have another question though:

I'm using GWizard to help with feeds and speeds and for the drilling operations and counterbores the 18,000rpm, 750mm/min feed and 515 plunge rate GWizard suggested seemed to work really well. For the 3D roughing operation I'm about to try I'm using an 8mm Carbide End mill (3flute) and it is suggesting 13,000rpm, 2,000 mm/min and 750 plunge - does this sound right guys, as it seems to be very aggressive?

If there is ever a UK CNC meet up, I am going to owe you guys a small brewery.....

Cheers


Chris