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Having "automatic tool change" in software doesn't do me any good because I don't have the hardware to support it. I guess Mach4 is an improvement on Mach3 which tied up a whole PC and all the...

Oh that's fine, not ALL of this came as a surprise, and certainly nothing was all that shocking...

I guess as sort of a "newbie" I expected there to be a sort of "controlled relationship" between...

I can't change software toolsets. Both the parts placement (in KiCAD) and the autorouting (in freeRouting.jar) are DONE. Either I get FlatCAM working or I send out for etched protos, if I elected to...

So if Craig happens to be there...or, well, I suppose this could be considered a "FlatCAM" question, or maybe not, let me go back to asking about geometry, yes a lot of what I was doing was...

I'm sorry, this is a "private war", no offense intended!

Tonight I spent some time typing in install scripts, and I managed to get bCNC, Candle AND Chilipeppr ALL running. They ALL have built-in autoleveller functions. (I can't use the graphics on...

I see what it is, I had the "order of operations" different. I was treating the pins as "permanent fixture components" of a semi-permanent spoilboard. FlatCAM WILL generate the .nc file
if you want...

OK maybe I misread that. I was watching a YouTube earlier today that demonstrated the "pocket approach", but that's not what I had. What I think you're talking about is aligning the
edge of the...

Observation #1: When FlatCAM tells you to "include alignment pins" in the layout, from what you're saying they're encouraging a line of thinking that by itself leads to suboptimal results (like...

So current "best SWAG" is I just have had MISERABLE luck purchasing usable tips, and need to go back to that wonderful craps table called Amazon and try some alternate brands. (Look I'm not blaming...

I'm sorry but you have ZERO knowledge about this issue. Some and potentially ALL of those commands may need to be modified for Linux Mint. For example to install Universal Gcode Sender I experimented...

I'm sorry, I don't think talking about software is going to solve this, there's something more fundamental going on. This is what's confusing me, I'm getting into this trying to do double-sided right...

Are you kidding me? I'm using 64 bit Linux. Candle is written in a language called Qt, specifically qt5. Until I saw the Candle website I had never HEARD of Qt! There is a .tar.gz distribution of...

Well as far as Autoleveller goes my only shop machine is now running Universal G-code Sender on Linux MATE Mint on my old netbook, with 2G RAM (maxed), it turns out my plan to run Win10 on a machine...

Does anyone even have some favorite "moderate priced" brands of carbide bits for PCB use that worked for them? BQLZR, Bantam, Onsrud, Amana, wegstr, others? It occurs that the bits that shipped with...

OK so I got in contact with SainSmart (didn't send the product back) and asked them about the split tips, and they said from my description it COULD have been defective product, as far as they were...

Not exactly here and now...I never took up photography so no fancy cameras or lenses (there's a reason for that having to do with massive early trauma but hey that's TMI)...I did "kind of try" but...

This whole exercise has been SUCH a waste, SUCH a lack of understanding, it couldn't POSSIBLY have gotten further off-track...please read on...

I came into this with a SMATTERING of mechanical...

Craig,

If you used "released FlatCAM" that was probably version 8.5 and yes that was NOT impressive. If you used the beta that was FlatCAM 8.994 and I've found a few small bugs but overall it's...

Hi Craig,

What's a "stepover", is that the same as overlap except in distance instead of %? Are you at all familiar with FlatCAM, what's YOUR gcode generator? I'm looking for someone to look at...

Guess I got that wrong, all PreciseBits seems to have in 0.1mm tip is tapered stub. Also after tearing into it I'm less than certain that the motor on my rig is NOT already ball bearing (now whether...

I can't say I AM having "chatter" because, guess what, I don't have anything I can trust to measure it! But just about everybody I talk to is themselves talking about "excess spindle runout
in...

CitizenOfDreams, you seem to have experience with this PreciseBits outfit...

So he got back to me with the following link: https://www.precisebits.com/products/carbidebits/tapered_stub_125.asp
...

This sounds interesting, I just went on https://www.precisebits.com/products/carbidebits/scoreengrave.asp and read the following:

"30° V-tip tools are NOT intended for metal engraving, or PCB...

I will be studying all of those intently, thank you! I would say in my experience FlatCAM "delivers the goods" in terms of being CAPABLE of great results, but in my opinion both the documentation and...

Unfortunately FlatCAM is in version 8.994 beta, they really haven't made any updates to the documentation since FlatCAM 8, and any similarity between the documentation and the released
beta is...

That's some beautiful work. But I'm confused, there are comms packages like the paid version of Ultimate CNC (I saw it somewhere else for free, maybe Chilipeppr?) that look like they run ...

That's all fine, but those aren't the parameters I'm being asked to set up! I'm supposed to enter "passes" (cnt) and "overlap" (%) as well as depth.
What do those first two parameters even mean,...

Having similar problem, post is a little after yours, slightly different machine, using gSender and sometimes cncjs in place of Chilipeppr, they both jog well and the latter also has good manual...

Was kind of hoping there was a CAM topic entry here for FlatCAM, I'm just a "johnny-come-lately" with one of these Chinese 3018 GRBL 1.1h machines (like a Genmitsu/Sainsmart), I'm generating...