Re: DeskWinNC, GeckoG210, Bridgett

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., dougrasmussen@c... wrote:
> Tim,
>
> Wow, that is slow!!!! You'd want to plan your sequence of
operations
> very carefully if you needed multiple tools on a large part. Like
> making a hole pattern, you might want to spot all the holes on one
> end, then change tools and drill, rather than "rapiding" (and I'm
> using that term loosely) from one end of the part to the other with
> the same tool.
>
> Just to see what 25 ipm is like I set my 300ipm machine down to 25
to
> get a feel for it. Frustratingly slow!!!
>
>
> Just a thought, that 25ipm isn't the max cutting rate is it? With
a
> faster rate for rapids? I thought someone posted a rapid rate of
> 125ipm for the old BOSS stepper machines a while back.
>
> thanks,
>
> Doug