I’m looking for information from someone who is using the 1F with a 4th Axis.
I recently set mine up and did a couple of test runs and was pleased. I’m using VCarve Pro and the Builbotics controller. After doing the Wrapping gadget I imported a fancy ballister. Set up my toolpath and looked great. The Rounding path was about 20 minutes and the 3D ballister Roughing and Finishing paths were 35 minutes and 1:25 respectively. When I loaded the toolpaths into the machine the first two looked OK but the finishing toolpath went to 36+ hours.
-Project is 2.5”x8.75”
-Finish toolpath
-Bit-Skinny Jenny
I am thinking it must be in the machine settings or is this typical?
@DaBooBear,
I see you mentioned using the Buildbotics controller. If that controller can change speeds on the fly can you point me to more information on that???
I get vastly different tool path time depending my on settings.
I would try to run the skinny Jenny at the upper limits to reduce cutting time,
just throwing in some numbers here, maybe feed rate about 40inch/min, chip load 0.01.
The stepover I would bring up to maybe 15-30%. It’s a small tool so the marks will be less pronounced.
That might reduce the finishing path time a lot.
Also, did you use 2 tools with rest machining for the finishing tool path? Maybe a 1/4 inch ball end first, then tool change to the skinny Jenny?