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Got it, makes sense now. I also cut a lot of color core HDPE for signage and love how it machines.

I guess everyone has their own way of doing things although they are not always conventional. Whatever works for you works for you. We all have our own workflow. If you use two tools for the job you described don't you use the chamfer tool first and then the end mill second? When you change out the ...

Now we are just spinning our wheels here, you said it yourself, "there's not tool changes in my programs". So this means there's no call for a M6 macro therefore no need for a M6 macro and no need for a fixed tool touch off. Posting each tool as a "job" defeats the purpose of wha...

Those macros in that topic you reference were written LONG before the Wizard included ANY tool touch locations or speeds for tool touch off. You are comparing apples to basketballs. :mrgreen: Those macros used G30 and the speeds for touching off are set in the macro, not in the wizard. When you refe...

Your DIP switch setting should be fine. The only questionable one is #5 as you may need to switch direction depending on how it mounted to get the correct direction from it. You can also change the direction in the Wizard. You then also need to set the steps/rev in the Acorn wizard to 4000 since tha...

The acme lead screw is only adding to the resistance that the Z axis has to endure. A simple gas strut for a counterbalance may be a cheap and easy fix. Let us know how it goes after the drives are wired to the DB25.

Uwe is correct, those are 5v drives and need to be wired to the DB25 for reliable operation. You possibly also need a counter balance on the Z axis as you may be asking too much of the motor and drive combo you installed.

The switches don't serve the same purpose. If you want more help you should post a link to the manual for your drive and motor. We can't possibly know what motors you have or what all the switches do for that particular drive. You need to match the drive to the motor current and then the step/rev to...

I use Southwire VFD cable.

https://cabletechsupport.southwire.com/ ... country=US

You don't have to house the VFD in a separate cabinet. You DO have to employ good practices. Very well stated Tom. I see so many problem builds where builders use unshielded cable everywhere and wonder why they have noise. I also put my VFD in the same cabinet as the rest of the system. If the syst...