Quote Originally Posted by Neale View Post
With due respect to Rob, I have to say that my experience is that 3D printing needs much lower speeds than routing. My shockingly slow router will easily reach 900mm/min while my 3D printer seldom does more than a tenth of that - assuming that you are extruding plastic, you just can't get it out of the nozzle fast enough to need much higher speeds.
My 3D printer extrudes at 40 mm/second (2400mm/min) and rapids at 150 mm/second (9000 mm/min). These are the manufacturers settings for ABS. My router is much slower than that.
Cheers,
Rob