Aluminium Profile Type Router - Initial questions

[pippin88]

Axis labelling can be however you want.

The convention is:
Standing in front of machine (as you will actually be using it)
Left to right is X
Front to back is Y
Up and down is Z

So yes like a graph.
CAD and CAM software is based on / defaults to this convention, so easiest to follow it.

Some people get funny and insist that across the gantry must be Y. Or the longest axis must be X. They are wrong. It's about how you draw the design / do the CAM.

[JAZZCNC]

Like Pippin say's there is no wrong or right so long as the Controller and Cam match up. Otherwise it gets very confusing when watching the controller Vs machine movement. However the part will still cut correctly provided it doesn't hit the limits which often happens when people mix Axis and Cam up.

But to Answer your question then yes you did have it wrong way around to what is conventional, that being following the Cartesian coordinate system of X=Lft/Rht Y=For/Aft Z=Up/down

Looking good by the way, soon be making chips. then the trouble really starts...Lol