I personally haven’t experienced this. If you have experienced a move before it maybe a troubleshooting thing you need to go through. Splitting a job can cause alignment issues if you aren’t careful (different codes for different bits) but all is usually minimal problems.
The pockets will definitely benefit from a larger bit and bigger DOC
Doug asked a lot of good questions too
Whenever I home my machine, and then move from the machine’s 0,0 to the job’s working 0,0, I make note of the offset between the two. Then, if I need to do a job cancel and restart, or a rescue because of a problematic issue, or even a rocky bit change, I can just home and go back to the same offset to get to the job’s working 0,0 again.
That is a very nice workflow and should have been obvious to me, but wasn’t.
Roughly 40cm x 6cm
I have not yet settled on specific wood, but likely something on the medium to hard side. Perhaps oak?
The estimates are based on 3mm depth.
These are the bits I picked up for it:
But I’m open to others if they would be better suited.
I also have these from the initial build:
So most of those buts are what I like to call fine detail bits. They are great for cutting really fine details and cleaning up edges but don’t remove a lot of material.
Large Flat endmils are great for hogging, like 1/4” or 1/8” (6/3mm) end mills are great for parting and removing bulk material. Also please take note that Ryan’s starting speed and DOC are very very limited as so many build vary in quality. Some of the other members like Doug can give you some better recommendations, I have only just started testing my machine but for example I made This the other day and I know I could have cut faster but I was cutting cleanly at 25mm/sec (1,500 mm/min). That is also without having my drivers tuned as I sourced my own parts.
OK, given that info, I ran some numbers in my GWizard calculator (highly recommended - has yet to let me down).
It gives these specs for the cut, using a 1/8", 2-flute, end-mill bit:
Dept of cut: 1mm
Router RPM: 24,000
[EDIT: corrected] Feedrate: 93.3 mm/sec (i.e. 5600 mm/min)
In the following screen shots, you will notice that I first asked it for a 3mm depth of cut, but it gave a red warning on there being too much deflection. Then I backed down to 1.5mm depth of cut, and the warning went from red to yellow, but it was still warning. Then I backed down to 1mm, and it gave a green light on the deflection issue.
3mm depth of cut:
1.5mm depth of cut:
1mm depth of cut:
Also, I should have mentioned, those speeds and feeds are based on a bit that does not just have a 1/8" shank, but a 1/8" cutting width as well. Like this one:
@Peacester is absolutely right.
I would have mentioned this earlier, but I saw “1/8” in your response, and did not notice it was only talking about the shank.
It would be OK to hog out most of what you need gone, with either a 1/8" or 1/4" and then for fine finishing, switch to one of those tiny ones. If you want to hog out with 1/4" instead of a 1/8" then that would call for different numbers. You probably could go deeper on depth of cut, but you’d have to go slower on the RPM.
Also, those bits I linked to are single flute instead of 2-flute, but Ryan recommends single flute anyhow.
I do the same thing and it has saved my butt too many times to count. I either take a pic of the screen or I just write it down on the spoilboard somewhere if my phone isn’t handy
You’ve lost me here, is one of these supposed to be mm/sec? Presumably the first one?
Yes, sorry.
[EDIT: corrected] Feedrate: 93.3 mm/sec (i.e. 5600 mm/min)
If you upload the file I can see what I could achieve time-wise to give you a realistic benchmark of what is possible. 
I’m working on getting GWizard up and running, what should I list as Max Feedrate? From this forum post, I’m seeing 50mm/sec. Which would be 3000 mm/min, correct?
Here’s the file I’m working with:
Sean.dxf (482.3 KB)
I do jobs with feed rates faster than that. I did some cutting in plastic at almost 84 mm/sec, and the GWizard recommendation for the 1mm deep cuts in hardwood, with the 1/8" endmill, given above, was almost 94 mm/sec. So, I’d say to set your max feed rate higher than 50 mm/sec, unless you are wanting to play it safe for now and revisit that later.
The normal logic of going deeper and staying at the lower feedrate, normally makes sense, but when you also consider the issue of deflection on smaller bits like the 1/8" then it can make sense to do a shallower cut with a faster feed rate. Of course you can take it easy, reducing both your feedrate and your RPM on a shallow cut, and just take more time on the job. But the machine can probably do more than you think, provided you have the right depth of cut and feeds and speeds, and are taking deflection into account.
I’m working on adding the various bits I have to GWizard. Adding my initial tool there was a nice picture asking me for various dimensions of the tool. Adding the second tool, it’s just a form with fields. Is there any way to get the first interface back, I can’t seem to find it.
When I am in my Tool Crib, and I tap on “New Tool”, and then tap on the dropdown beside “Type” it brings up that nice interface.
I have Estlcam telling me it takes 05:29 minutes. Since it’s a bit off with carves it might be closer to 10 minutes. E12 file in the attachment. I used a 10mm 60° V-Endmill for the calculation.
Sean.zip (1.3 MB)
