[troyswood]

cnc wood carver with Ability system software and bobcadcam in the Detroit Michigan area

[SteveS]

Hi Troy,

I have seen the posted pictures of you work and am impressed. I live south of Detroit in Trenton at exit 32 of I-75.

In late 2004, I bought a turn-key CNC router table off Ebay from a person in Wixom who never used it. The brand was Debece and included a German CAM software package. The machine uses a serial interface, so unless I change out the controller, I am stuck with the German WinPCNC software. The company is of no use, seem it is an reseller from Germany and I haven't found the parent connection.

I have Rasterfratz, Mach2 and BobCad V20 software.

My real problem is that after creating G-Code from any of the software packages, the size isn't what I expected in the CAM software.

The machine working surface is physically 46 by 76 cm or 18 by 30 inches. When I direct the machine to move 100 units, it goes 47 mm / 5.7 inches.

When I run the machine in manual mode to its X limit it shows 3300, for the Y axis it shows 2100.

It seems that I am having a newbie mental block or am setting something incorrectly.

Would like to get it working. The BobArt Pro X is my goal, but until I can get the basics to work I can't see pouring more money in the pit.

Steve.

[troyswood]

did you get a manual with this machine?

you need to set up your steppers under settings