As far as I understand it, dxf files are unitless. They say, the width of this rectangle is 10. Not 10mm. When you export the dxf from a program that understands units to estlcam, you need to keep the units the same. Export them in mm and import them in mm.
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I purchased Estlcam and I like the simplicity, the gcode files it generated contained too many movements and cut very slowly, ridiculously slowly. I switched to Fusion but those traitors have pulled the free bait and switch. I wanted to revisit and ask if anyone has found a way to prevent the generation of over precise gcode in Estlcam or is the solution to use the CNC controller in estlcam to control the maslow. Any replies are appreciated.
I made some award plaques last year for volunteer youth group activities I am involved in using estlcam. The engraving worked really well but just a few lines took hours for each one, it should have been a max 30 min operation. I have been requested to make 3x as many this year.
estlcam takes a simple approach to path matching which obviously works, but the tolerances on it are too fine resulting in around 10 commands per millimeter of movement on even relatively large arcs. It gets slow because the Arduino can only process around 10 commands per second, i.e. you get a feed rate of 1mm per second regardless of what your F value is set to.
I'm still somewhat new to estlcam but I'm getting there... One thing I'm running into is, am I using carve correctly? My understanding of the carve option was when loading an SVG, in this instance, we'll say of a circle, carve would allow me to evenly carve out the interior of the circle, or to whatever width I set it to. Am I correct in that understanding? If I'm not, how would I go about that?
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