Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: CNC JR

On 3/5/06, Nicholas Carter and Felice Luftschein <felice@...> wrote:

>
> 3" x 1.5" x 0.18" deep? The Taig can certainly handle that in aluminum.
> Now "relief carving", I assume that means full 3D contouring? That can
> be slow on the Taig, I just ran a program that had 240000 lines for a
> 1.25x1.25x.1875 contoured shape and it took hours and hours
>
> 240K lines? That sounds like a LOT of lines, no matter what machine you

are talking about...

240K lines for a workpiece of such a small size probably means that you were
using a fairly tight mesh, and a fairly small cutter. Maybe I am mistaken,
but it seems that at that point the spindle speed becomes the main limiting
factor, so going for a bigger machine may actually be counter-productive.
Unless you have the budget for a big machine with a very nice fast spindle,
of course.

Vlad

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