Beautiful Rodger you’re using vcarve Pro or aspire
I am using vcarve desktop. I just downloaded the .stl from thingiverse and imported it into vcarve desktop
Does the vcarve desktop have the rotary option available when you’re setting up your material or are you doing it as a flat object
Yes it has the rotary option
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Ty
Man I can’t wait to morning
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Let me know how it goes
Of course, thank God I dont have your phone number, I’d be waking you up, GB
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Update, the A axis jerks instead of spins, please help, almost there…
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17xq0r8mEvtWnJmfV42Zt33pb2uetcH1X/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ci13YAnF1PN176YZCCvmTjczG8FG06f1/view?usp=sharing
Can you post the file you are carving here? Post the vcarve file and the gcode you sent to the controller and I’ll look at them
Have you tested the axis with just MDI commands - just to make sure it is not wiring/connections?
Yes I have G0A360 1 turn G0A1200 5 turns
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To give a update for the forum benefit cuz I’ve been communicating with Rodger via email and it isn’t posted here everything works fine with the rotary with the settings he gave for the post processor that he modified the issue that I was having was poor wiring my wiring had a lot of residue from the tape I restripped and cleaned the wires reconnected them everything is working perfect once again thank you everybody on this forum and to inform you rotary carving is possible with with the onefinity God bless
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Congratulations. Thank you for providing the follow-up. Perseverance, and knowledgeable and supportive forum members are a great combination. A few obligatory project photos I assume will now be shared of your first rotary projects (-:
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Thank you mr. Toronto I believe all congratulations however are do to The Forum we must give honor where it is due as far as obligated to share photos of course that’ll be our honorable pleasure must be patient though cuz now I’m trying to figure out how to cut out on my table an area to mount the Rotary attachment to where I can maximize the length of what is being turned as of now there isn’t much space as soon as that’s done for sure as far as laser goes I have lasers on ink pens and cups already using the post processor Modified by Rodger God bless
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Any updates on this? Thank you all for sharing! I definitely want to add this rotary option to my setup in the very near future!!!
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It would be great if someone could pull all this learning into a guide for 1F rotary conversion. Any takers 
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I want to give rotary axis CNC a go. I am torn between a masso controller upgrade (which would also eradicate “the dust in air-intake” challenges of the buildbotics controller"), but it looks like a significant assembly job vs repurposing one of the buildbotics drivers as above.
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Hey Andy,
I think I am a little away from putting something into action at the moment, but regarding using stock controller for rotary axis, Roger posted this the other day
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Hi Tom,
First off this is incredibly complicated and impressive to see, thank you for putting this out into the world. As a newbie to the CNC game who just wants to cut 4x4 12mm PET felt sheets with an oscillating tangential head without spending $8.5k on the Stepcraft table, I’ve been getting buried in decision paralysis in all the research on different ways to do it. What it’s looking like is rigging the Stepcraft OTK-3 head onto another table, and I’ve landed on this thread to see if the Masso controller is a viable option. I was hoping to see if you’d have any expertise/input on this idea, since I’m getting out of my depth here!
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I’m also super impressed with this. Good Job.
@TMToronto Did you ever get an oscillating knife running? I skimmed the thread above but didn’t see any update on this.
Were you able to use a post from something other than sheetcam? Like Fusion?
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