Chuck Keysor
12-13-2011, 01:54 AM
Hello Again, more newbie questions:
In cutting my Christmas present plaques:
1) after loading the shopbot part file, and starting the spindle, I got the following error message: "Parameter Error Parameter Value Below Range for VS Setting to lower limit (.05)!"
I clicked the OK button. Then the same message appeared again, and I clicked OK again. Then the file ran perfectly.
Since I had to set some parameters in the Aspire toolpath program, I guessed this was a step-over, which I had set to .01. So I changed it to .05 for the next file. But I got the same error message again, and realized this parameter was probably set in a Shopbot file.
What is this, and where do I change this? And is there a simple explaination of how to choose this value?
2) In Aspire, I set the feed rate for 3 inches per second. Yet as the router was cutting, I estimated it was moving at only 1/4" per second. It was crawling.
I know people often say that the program chooses the feed rate, no matter what value you choose. But this was a narrow boarder about .2" wide, and .125" deep, and it was an 8" straight line. So why on earth for such a simple, shallow cut, would it crawl along at such a slow speed?
Do I have some other value set wrong that would make this go so slowly? Or is this just the way it is?
Thanks again, Chuck
In cutting my Christmas present plaques:
1) after loading the shopbot part file, and starting the spindle, I got the following error message: "Parameter Error Parameter Value Below Range for VS Setting to lower limit (.05)!"
I clicked the OK button. Then the same message appeared again, and I clicked OK again. Then the file ran perfectly.
Since I had to set some parameters in the Aspire toolpath program, I guessed this was a step-over, which I had set to .01. So I changed it to .05 for the next file. But I got the same error message again, and realized this parameter was probably set in a Shopbot file.
What is this, and where do I change this? And is there a simple explaination of how to choose this value?
2) In Aspire, I set the feed rate for 3 inches per second. Yet as the router was cutting, I estimated it was moving at only 1/4" per second. It was crawling.
I know people often say that the program chooses the feed rate, no matter what value you choose. But this was a narrow boarder about .2" wide, and .125" deep, and it was an 8" straight line. So why on earth for such a simple, shallow cut, would it crawl along at such a slow speed?
Do I have some other value set wrong that would make this go so slowly? Or is this just the way it is?
Thanks again, Chuck