How can you speed up the up-and down motion of a carve line?

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How can you speed up the up-and down motion of a carve line?

Post by kristenanne77 »

It carves along at a good speed but after finishing a "line", the bit moves so slowly up and then down to carve a new line.
Then its fast again. What settings are good for optimal speed when doing a PhotoVCarve picture?

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Re: How can you speed up the up-and down motion of a carve line?

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That is either controlled by the Plunge rate under Feeds and Speeds for the tool, or by the Rapid move speed set in your machine's control software.
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Re: How can you speed up the up-and down motion of a carve line?

Post by Greolt »

Randall has pointed out the two things that will affect Z axis plunge and retract speed.

For jobs like you describe, and many others, I will set plunge speed the same as cut speed.

Rapid speed is dependent on settings in your controller software/hardware. Check that is set at an appropriate max velocity.

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Re: How can you speed up the up-and down motion of a carve line?

Post by GEdward »

Another thing you can do to speed things up a little is to set the "rapid clearance gap" in the cutting parameters to just barely above the surface. I generally set it to 0.010. That way Z doesn't waste much time at the end of each line.

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