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Unread 12-26-2003, 05:06 AM   #20
]JR[
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Ok you lost me

you said your engraver could do a 3mm depth, with a 3mm cutter @ 250mm/m

depends on how big the spindle motor is. the nc machine in this thread would never do it, infact it tells you the aluminium parameters...

1mm/s = 60mm/m
0.002" cut depth = 0.005mm/pass

Assuming we want to go 3mm deep thats 600 passes, with lets say a 200mm tool path (rater optimistic imo)

((200/60) * 600)/60 = 33hrs

I may be guilty of not reading the original thread, although my gestimates arent too bad, the feed i guessed just about right, but i got double the z feed over twice the distance. The toolpath length is shorter in this guesstimate but its almost certainly too short. Depends on the block design.

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