I’m running a pocket on Estlcam and cant seem to get it to stop going all the way through the wood. It never stops at the 1/2" or 12 mm depth and continues all the way through. Can anyone tell me what I"m missing here?
If you are starting at the surface of your table, your starting level is not zero. It is the height of your material. Have a look at my intermediate instructions on the how to page as I do a table level walk through.
Ok, I looked over the instructions but I think there is a misconception with my picture. That is a waste board that is considered at bed level where the bit is set.
So the bit is set to 0 on the bed level at this point.
ok- for the record that did NOT work right. That plunged the bit all the way to Zero. So- going back to read again as I missed something somewhere apparently.
I see what you’re doing now. You set the zero at the table, then your start level is the material thickness. I’m not sure if it can work that way. Generally everybody here is setting the origin to the material surface, I think that’s what it says in the Basic Settings in estlcam, you have table surface in the picture a few posts up.
Sorry Allison, I meant estlcam when I said repitier…
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Hopefully this is still readable, it’s two remote desktops deep through a vpn to the house…
Yes, but you also have “start level” set in your toolpath to 20mm. That should be zero.
You can have the bit touching the top surface when you reset the Z0. 0.5mm above is fine. The top surface of my workpieces has wood grain, so it’s hard to get more precise than that.
Ok, so when I raised the the Z axis up 20 mm it works fine. It does go up and down and seems to measure out fine. So I tried a ‘print’ and here is what I had happen.
On the Final 11.99 pass, i think the router went down deeper into the cut. It’s as if the Z axis sunk or something.
Here is the final pass and what it looked like on the last circle around the hole. Also, you can see that it had dropped from the zero point and went through the material instead of coming up above it for the second hole (top right of pix)
