This line is the border of the area within the top that will be removed by milling a pocket to the depth specified. For example, the following image shows the innermost line highlighted in red. NOTE: In this video and the one above it you get to the fantastic A2Z toggle clamps in use. In CamBam, each line has to be processed according to your need. This is now a built in feature in CamBam and provides faster and smoother pocket cutting. This gives you all the smoothness at low speeds and all the power at high speeds.Ĭonstant spiral plunging/cutting - This was a test of using a constant spiral plunges to cut pockets in CamBam.
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The Gecko G540 is a 10x driver that morphs to a full step driver as the motors RPM increases. milehidude again, I iterate, repeat myself, you will get the most help from the most knowledgeable people if you post your cambam file on the cambam forums. The 10x driver is much quieter and smoother at low feed rates. In fact I was able to crank it up to 250 IPM with the SmoothStepper but that is not a reasonable speed for the machine design not to mention the steppers were doing nearly 5000 RPM!Ĭomparing 10x microstepping to 1/2 step - It can be a bit difficult to tell from this video but the difference between a 1/2 step driver and a 10x driver is amazing. On the PC used 90 IPM was just possible with the Parallel Port, the SmoothStepper did 90 IPM with ease. The point was to show how a stable pulse stream delivered by the SmoothStepper combined with well matched, quality components can provide superior performance.
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Here are a few videos we made a while back of one of our STDR-4C driving a Taig mill with out 166 oz-in motors. Here are a great series of video from one of the guys who works at Taig.