Building My First CNC Router, Looking for Advice & Other Info

**Neale** · 26-10-2017

You can find the HY manual from a pointer here - just scroll down from the top.

**AlexDoran** · 26-10-2017

Originally Posted by Nr1madman

Wait a minute here... You got manuals for your stuff??? :D

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Haha yep, which was pretty good actually to be fair to them, just lacked that precious bit of Data that i desperately needed :P

**AlexDoran** · 27-10-2017

Well guys it may not look like much, but it was a fair amount of working getting to this point:

My Solidworks package updated to 2018 in the last few days, 2018 Professional now comes included with Solidworks CAM - Which is essentially CAMWorks. I spent a lot of time yesterday and today wrapping my head around creating a Post Processor for the DDCSV1.1 to use with CAMWorks, setting up the machine and figuring out tool creation in CAMWorks etc.

As far as CAMWorks goes its a fantastic bit of software, i can just stay in Solidworks and open up the tab, click a button to recognise machinable features and then go from there, once i enter a few more tools into the Machine that are available to use, it will pick out the most suitable tool for the job and generate the tool paths. After this you can visualise them and make any changes etc.

Still need to make some changes to the Post Processor and CAMWorks settings to streamline the whole process but so far its no where near as challenging as i thought it would be.

Now i need to figure out and start researching good ways to reference origins on the machine, i see a lot of people work to the centre of parts, need to do some research on this.

Also looking to get a probe and figure that out with DDCSV1.1.

Thanks

Alex

**Nr1madman** · 27-10-2017

Originally Posted by Neale

You can find the HY manual from a pointer here - just scroll down from the top.

Thanks Neale, I had downloaded it already.
Was just joking about that often the manuals are so bad that they don't even send them :D

As always your support is awesome!

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**Neale** · 27-10-2017

Interesting thing about that copy of the manual is that it comes from a UK supplier (CNC4You). They pre-configure the HY VFDs that they sell, although the one I bought had the number of motor poles wrong so it showed the wrong motor speed. Easy to correct.