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Ok thanks everyone for the help, I'm going to figure out how to create my own custom material/tool profiles for my engraving jobs so that they won't trigger tool changes anymore. Thanks again.

Yeah when I set my speeds and feeds it changed the flute length of the tool used for the .002 pass so that it was different than the .004 passes. I'm not sure about the tool crib itself, but I think...

Thanks for the quick replies. Here is my post processor. I'm running my Chinese mill using Mach3 and there are no tool changers, etc. It's a very simple mill so I'm assuming this was the correct post...

Hi all,

I am currently working on some different 2D engravings using Bobcad (v27) and have been getting some problems with unwanted M00 gcodes. I currently have three different engraving features...

Ok great thank you! Appreciate all the responses!

I have no clue I'll take a screenshot tomorrow. The first is a couple of circular drill patterns and the other is just four random lines I made into a box just as a quick test. The first one all...

Really? I'm on AutoCAD 2008 and they load fine until I get nothing in BobCAD. I'll try re-saving as Gerry suggested and re-attaching to see if that changes anything. Thanks for the quick responses.

Hi all,

I just recently got my 6040z up and running thanks to all of you over on the Chinese CNC forum. I have AutoCAD already but just recently downloaded the free BobCAD-CAM v27 trial version....

Thank you all I have my spindle control and x,y,z control up and running beautifully. Thanks for all the help!

Thank you I appreciate the response. I was looking at a few sources to see exactly how stepper motors work and I found this: How Stepper Motors Work

Looking at this is it safe to say that it won't...

Great tip thanks, that should have been fairly obvious to me. So what happens then if the polarity on the A coil or B coil or both is backwards?

Thanks again!

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So this is my first foray into CNC machines. I have done some extensive reading here and bought the 6040z and Gecko g540. I was able to power up the g540 and hook up an E-stop button to...