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Thx Keith, yes, I know it's there if you want to look at it before the Op, but think it should be on the run time screen. Glad it's on the list. There is a HUGE difference between my CAMs estimation and typical time taken on drilling Ops. I have to use peck and retract drilling due to lack of rigidi...

Can we add the estimated run time as a count down or similar? Like time left. Maybe in conjunction with an elapsed time (Running time, not time since last cycle start).

That pretty much catches it up to now as of posting this. Production of the Alu milled parts is underway on the current machine. It has its challenges as the machine is really not up to it, but by slowing everything right down, detailed CAM simulation runs, careful selection of the Op types and tool...

Steel was a PITA to get. Apparently very few companies want to deal with small orders and just can't be bothered to respond or come back with ridiculous prices. But after a few weeks of searching, calling, emailing I finally found a small local company who was happy to take my money and picked up th...

The design for build 2 The more I look at it, the more it becomes apparent, the PNC and my current machine are almost the same. Maybe that's why it intrigued me to begin with. Well, that and the fully 'build it yourself' aspect. My machine doesn't have plastic parts and the PNC doesn't have an Alu e...

Inklings of an idea for build 2 I ran across something called the Print NC (PNC). On reddit of all places. When I first ran across it, I saw it as an oddity. It was a Mild Steel RHS framed machine using 3D printed plastic parts for motor mounts, screw plates, etc. Since one of my main issues was rig...

Intro and criteria for this build. My 2nd Acorn Build Thread. 1st one is in my sig below (QueenAnt Pro V2). I plan to take a different approach with this one. The last one was really more of a blog and got pretty long with lots of inline pictures and details spread across many posts. This time I wan...

Thx Uwe. Yes, single zero is nice and simple. TBH, the more I think about the this and consider the different things I know vs, the ones I don't, I am coming to the conclusion that I am simply asking this machine to do something it's not really capable of. All Ops on a single side are fine. Irrespec...

Hi Uwe, most recently I set O to a stock corner first with probe. Then first Op I bore a hole. Everything after that I set O to the center of the bored hole using the probe. Previously I set O as stock corner, again with probe, then when flipped set 0 to the same physical corner with probe again. Pr...

Retitled this thread with the machine build that was documented in it. I will start a new thread for the new machine.