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Adobe is offering a free download of their outdated Creative Suite Version 2. It includes Adobe Illustrator, which does a great job of converting fonts to editable vectors. I was using an old copy...

found the answer on the Artcam forum.

Just to update this thread to anyone who's interested. I cut the piece several days ago using a 1/16" ball nose (1/8" shank) that I purchased from Kodiak Cutting Tools (about $11.50 for the bit). I...

I'm doing a pretty detailed carving of the Last Supper for a local church. To get the detail I want, I'll be using a 1/16" ball nose with a 1/8" shank cutting either walnut or cherry. I've never cut...

Thanks. I'm very familiar with txt files, but have never tried to load one in Mach. I'll give it a go.

I just bought a used DIY CNC machine last week and the computer that runs it has Mach3 and Aspire 2.5. Playing around with designing a couple of projects yssterday and was going to save the...

I built the system about 4 years ago, and my old senile brain seems to think I needed 3.2 K resistors. I know I bought 1% of whatever value I needed, and I measured the resistance to make sure they...

My machine has been in mothballs for about a year while I was building my new workshop. I'm about to crank it back up, but I need some help, advice, whatever. I'm using Mach3 on a WinXP machine...

Once I got my system built and began connecting the electronics, I evidently let my power supply's hot wire touch something on my 540. (Dumb mistake on my part, I know. I shouldn't have had the PSU...

Not trying to hijack the thread, but the damper suggestion raised some questions for me. I'm using a Keling bundle of 387 oz motors, a 48V PSU and the Gecko 540, plus 1/2 X 10 single start acme...

If you have already purchased Artcam, you do not need to buy another program like V-Carve (in my opinion). Not trying to get into an argument with others with different opinions on here, but it will...

I did something similar a couple of weeks ago. I cut a 55" piece on a 44" bed. As mentioned before, I clamped down a straightedge for a fence (48" brass edged mason's level). This made it easy to...

As far as cutting completely around a piece which separates it from the outside. All of the CAM software I've played with has the ability to make 'bridges". Basically they are small areas left uncut...

Think about why cardboard boxes are made the way they are. The corregated pattern between the two outside layers increase the strength by a factor that combining several layers of plain paper...

If you open the case on the G540, you'll find that it is actually 4 removable modules (for X, Y, Z, and A axis). I fried mine on my initial startup (completely operator error), and sent it back in...

Corian is the brand name for (I think) Dupont's line of solid surface counter tops. Evidently, Corian has become the accepted generic name for solid surface materials. There are many other brands...

Maybe you could use T-nuts secured from the bottom of you spoil board. Seems like they would hold better than wood inserts. I personally don't use them, but it is another alternative.

I bought 1/2-10 single starts from a seller on Ebay. The company is called Precision Tech Machining and their prices are pretty good. They machine one end down to fit the standard skate bearing ID,...

I'm sorry to say I know nothing about an 'arduino'. Sounds like it's time for some extensive reading and research on this forum, plus asking a lot of questions.

Ubuntu with EMC2 (stands for enhanced machine controller, I think) is a free download and many on here are using it and like it. It all comes bundled together and unzips as a bootable ISO image....

I watch American Chopper a lot. They have some of the latest CNC equipment out, and apparently since they are on TV, a lot of it is given to them just for mentioning their name and showing what the...

I built a new house a couple of years back, and used bloodwood from Lumber Liquidators for my floors. Some of the prettiest wood I've seen, but extremely hard and brittle. I had a box leftover (about...

I'm redesigning my (mostly) MDF table, and probably going to 8020. The X axis is currently 48" and I'm using one 1/2x10tpi acme screw running down the center of the table. Since I'm getting more...

I have a Dewalt 618.
A is 4"
B =4
C=1 3/8
D =3.5"

Need some advice. I'm wanting to paint the whole surface of a project, then have the engraved letters or whatever is below the surface a different color so they stand out and can be seen. I tried...

When I do the X and Y zero on an end mil, do I center it up on the origin (0,0) or put it to the outside or my work, or the inside. Stupid question,I know, but I'm honestly not sure.

I use Mach3 and a Gecko 540, and setting up the Auto Tool Zero button (to zero my Z axis) is about as simple as it comes. It's cheap, it's accurate and it's fast.

Being hard headed, old, and senile, I told myself you were wrong and I was right. Meaning if I changed the pins to 8 and 9, even though they originally ran the A axis, that now they should run the X...

If I reassign the A axis step and dir pins to the X axis in the Ports and Pins config, then I have those pins assigned to the X axis, not the A axis (A will be disabled). So I should plug the X...

I have a PCI parallel port I'm going to try tomorrow. And I tried many combinations on the A Step and Dir in Config. I tried all zeros, then I tried 2 and 3 (the old setting from the X axis) all the...