Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] different feed rates ( was Re: NEWBIE WITH PLASMA/ROUTER ??'s

Hi Dave,

Isn't this rapid back in X to keep the backlash out? If it was a
regular pattern of holes, such as a tooling plate, then the simple Y
move, an not the rapid X AND a Y move, would have been about as short.
Unless the pattern is not regular?

Alan KM6VV


turbulatordude wrote:

>
> <snip>
> >I found for some
> > reason the torch works better making clockwise (left to right) cuts
> > than the opposite...go figure. You definitely want to use a
> > controller software that supports continuous contouring and
> smoothes
> > out the movements.
>
> I saw a post some time ago from someone who was making a few series
> of holes. they ran the X axis then drilled, moved again, drilled,
> and so on till the end of the row, then moved the Y and reversed the
> X direction.
>
> by doing a rapid back to the X starting point and only moving the X
> in one direction, they decreased their time per part signifigantly.
>
> go figure.
>
> Dave