Recommendations for Z Axis?

[Boyan Silyavski]

I understand dear Silyavski, i just trying to use materials that can purchase in my country, :/

Using I steel and weld a 10mm plate in one side i will get a box section like you say, but maybe with more weight.

I don t need high speeds, as its just for home projects, i dont need to cut/route fast!

Will check your project #1 again..

Even so, you should aim at least at ~200 ipm / 5000 mm/min as absolute minimum. I would say you should aim at 10000 mm/min for a "normall" machine.


Not that you will cut at those speeds but machine needs to be "snappy" with good acceleration. Which is sth i believe you have not considered. At the beginning i was also not aware of that fact. Good that people pointed that to me. Otherwise some jobs will take eternity , too much time even for home.

Now having that in mind, do some research about the efficiency of stepper motors, your load, the motors. Under load it will have only a couple of hundred useful RPM. So do your calculations from this.


What size will be your machine???


PS. here is a link to a calculator, have not checked it extensively but seems right http://techref.massmind.org/techref/...r/estimate.htm