are there any step by step instructions or videos of what is the very first thing to do once i get the machine mounted on table and all cables hooked up. I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed right now about what needs to be done before attempting any cuts of any kind, wifi, firmware update, etc. will be us…

This may not be the best way but the first thing I did was, after watching a heap of videos) - cut a circle: 1.Slapped on a piece of 25mm mdf as a wasteboard (screwed it down). i didnt surface the board as i hadnt, at that point, purchased a surfacing bit. added a piece on 18mm plywood (about a …

If you have purchase software, then go to your basic tutorials and follow them step by step with a basic carve. as you get deeper into the tutorials you will find your footing and gain confidence.

are there things that need to be done before i even start cutting anything

Hey Butch, to consider a machine ready to start work, I would make sure, especially with the Onefinity CNC machine, that it is rectangular (“squared”) and that it is coplanar (not twisted). For checking the rectangularity, there were different methods suggested, but as a first check for rectangu…

Hi everybody, I just get my journeyman oneinfinity machine. I just want to start cutting the same teste sample that comes with the machine but I am lost, i home x and Y axis, but z axis says over. I don’t have the probe and i try to zero z with paper but it still says z is 4,6mm obove limit. Can som…

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Hey Victor, as long as you haven’t loaded a g-code program of your own, you can safely ignore the limit errors.

thanks everyone. I knew about squareness and tramming but not coplanar. I’m hoping to get the machine mounted today .this may be a dumb question but do I check coplanar with the x axis on or off the machine

Thanks a lot for the explanation. After homing amd zeoring all axis, I try to start running the machine but it shows the message “change tool and attach probe”. Can you please tell what do i have to do?

What do I do first

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Festdewalkita January 24, 2023, 6:55pm 5

Yes.

Steps 1-3.

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