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My brother and I recently purchased an Acorn/ClearPath powered Avid 4x4 router, primarily to machine foam mold patterns for composites. After we had gotten the machine into the shop we started having intrusive thoughts about how to automate some of the more tedious tasks we have in front of us. As ...

Uwe, welp that would certainly explain the issue. Thank you!

Can I edit the cncm.job.xml file directly or is this better set in a CNC12 menu somewhere that I have yet to find?

I have an Avid 4x4 router with the Acorn based EX controller and Clearpath SDSK servo motors. A while ago I built a C-Axis add-on to use the machine as a tangential knife fabric cutter (documented here: https://centroidcncforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=11460). In short there is an additional clearpath ...

short answer , No. paired axis are treated as having the same pitch.

long answer, this is on the to do list for future software feature and will be apart of the Ultimate License file package.


Keith, thanks for clarifying. Is this a feature that is closer to being months away or years away ...

Hello Everyone! I just purchased an Avid CNC Pro 4'x8' router with Acorn controller package and Clearpath servo motors. Out of the box the Y axis drive motors are hardware paired (both drives receive step/dir from the same Acorn outputs). This infers that there is only one ballscrew error ...