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The best practice is as follows:

surface or fly cut your table to ensure it is totally flat and true to your machine (most important step)

zero your cutter to the table surface, not the top of...

The best practice is as follows:

surface or fly cut your table to ensure it is totally flat and true to your machine (most important step)

zero your cutter to the table surface, not the top of...

This is a video from the recent Camp Shopbot in Colorado. In addition to showing some work from some of the participants it gives extensive coverage of the Donek Tools Drag Knife and Shopbots new...

This is the latest Donek Tools tutorial. It shows you how to use the drag knife tool to cut inlaid veneer.

Cutting Veneer with a Donek Tools Drag Knife - YouTube

I have created a new video tutorial that shows how to program your drag knife with the new Vectric Gadget. This demonstration covers programming and cutting both vinyl and coroplast.

Cutting Vinyl...

Thanks. Understood. I did not realize feed speed was changed within a move command. G-code is quite different from shopbot's code and it can be confusing to look at a long line of code formatted...

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I am working on an excel software tool for adding corners to tool paths for our drag knife tool. This program is functioning with shopbot code already. I am just sort of learning g-code in making...

People keep finding new things they can do with our drag knife. A local composites shop just started using it to cut prepreg carbon fiber laminates. Until now, they've hand cut these laminates and...

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This new Drag knife does not require any special software or Hardware to cut most shapes.
It orients itself the same way the wheel (caster) on your office chair orients itself.
The tool Clamps into...

It sounds like I need the smallest inductance I can find for that shopbot controller. Am I interpreting that correctly? Will that result in greater power for my setup? The PK299-03aa has similar...

I'm building a cnc bender for bending ski and snowboard edges. This device consists of 3 rollers. One is fixed free spinning (essentially a bearing), one is driven by a stepper motor and is used to...