@christian-knuell congrats, and thanks for creating and releasing EstlCam 13. Creating combo miter finger joints with just a few clicks looks neat!
Looked at https://www.estlcam.de/changelog.php
Some observations/questions:
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What’s expected wait behavior? Have 12 license (maybe 11 too). First time I ran and tried out EstlCam 13, when saving .gcode it made me wait 90secs. Is 90s delay expected on first use?
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Bug? Observed “Miter Top” and “Miter Bottom” are bounded (Material thickness / 2) when edited. Fair enough. So, then… I expected that editing “Material Thickness” would bound (or error highlight with actionable error reason(s)) downstream dependent fields. But, actually observing “Miter Top” and “Miter Bottom” are not bounded when “Material Thickness” is edited to be smaller than 2 * either of the Top or Bottom fields.
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To help minimize job run time and keep bits appropriately loaded, is there a way to configure “Miter speed” (separately from bit feedrate) as explicit mm/s and/or a percentage multiplier of the bit’s feedrate, since Miter Step down (DOC) will likely (but not always…) be relatively shallow compared to tool’s regular Depth per pass step down. Consider adding “Miter feedrate” in Miter options dialog, and/or “Edit Tool” dialog.
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Why is Miter Step height limited to 0.5mm? For mitering NON finger joint parts… What’s the recommended way to make coarse Miters (without finger joints) using flat end mill, with EstlCam 13 (or 12) ? For example I want to make 2mm stepped miters on one side of a part, the rest of the profile is contoured and drilled. For this project, letting the flat end mill do a 2mm stepped miter and avoiding tool change is good enough preferred, and avoids me having to carefully tool swap (e.g. 45deg chamfer bit).
Looked at the generated gcode, observed stepped down roughing is same feedrate as the fine DOC miter passes, but, Users should be able to override Miter ‘finishing’ feedrate to reduce job time, rubbing and bit burn out.