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I would fix those parts on the table saw in my shop faster than I could set up for that operation. If you need to do that type of stuff a lot, you could attach two strips at 90 degree angles. Trim them with the machine, and then bump your part to the fence you just made.


Agree the table saw ...

Thanks all. I hadn't realized I could use my Avid style touch-off plate to do this (Keith's last image).

I'm guessing I'll need to jog the bit to be close to touching the plate, low enough to touch the inner walls of the probe.

And hitting cycle start will get it to slowly move along X+ until it ...

This is probably a pretty basic CNC question, but I currently have a 4x8-foot gantry style CNC router with an MDF vacuum table. I don't have any other hold-downs, unless you include double-stick tape with CA glue (which actually has never failed me).

I have some rectangular cabinet panels that I ...

Have a look at volumetric compensation: https://centroidcncforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=9266


Tom, this is super interesting and an almost perfect solution for me. Sadly, it looks like this feature requires the Ultimate license which I think starts at $2,000. I only have the Router Pro license.

I glue the top spoilboard down. That won't help with the machine construction, but it sounds like a lot of your issue is the loose spoilboard.


This is precisely how I attached the vacuum table top to the platen. The third panel isn’t glued (yet), just composite nailed around the perimeter ...

One more idea I had to perhaps solve for this during flattening the spoilboard: use a 8x2 foot wide panel and place it adjacent to each cut pass (flattening is done across the long side of the table). I'd have to turn on/off the vacuum and pause the spoilboard flattening process in CNC12 constantly ...

I would like to do some miter folding on my CNC router, but this requires leaving .005" of material at the bottom of the V-groove. While my machine is very accurate in the X and Y axis, I have never really been able to dial in my Z axis and get the table perfectly flat...

I am running Centroid ...

What kind of additional tuning was done? what parameters were modified?


The fine-tuning was done by a Teknic application engineer remotely. As long as your CNC computer is connected to the internet, they can schedule a remote session to do this. If I recall correctly, he remoted in and used the ...

I have a 4x8-foot gantry style CNC router with an ATC spindle, and I'm just now getting around to designing my fixed toolrack. Right now, I'm using one Avid touchplate to set tool height offsets, as well as the Z0 position at the top of my workpiece. I should also add that I have a vacuum table with ...

Many thanks for @johannes contribution here. You convinced me to give Teknic a ring and they did just what you mentioned: remoted in to my CNC PC and fine tuned the servo settings while it was aircutting. The results were pretty dramatic - before shot in the background, after shot in the foreground ...