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I was several hours into a 3D cutting job when my machine suddenly started cutting deeper. I stopped the machine and determined that the bit had slipped down in the collet. It was cutting a very...

I spoke with Shopbot. They recommended raising the spindle by drilling new mounting holes. They also mentioned that the spindle mounting plate may be rotated 180 degrees on some older machines in...

Thanks Brady. I will buy some extrusion. I'm just surprised that it came to the factory this way.

Related Question... where do I adjust the safe Z height in the control software. We know how to set the safe Z in Partworks and Vcarve. However, there appears to be another safe Z height setting in...

We have sufficient Z travel, but not all of it is "useful". As the http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy356/SBaircraft/Shopbot_zps2733f1c3.jpg shows, the spindle collet lowers around 1" below the...

Hi,

I have recently acquired a PRTalpha Buddy and am getting it set up.

I have two questions that I haven't found referenced in the archives.

1. During C3 X-Y Calibration, the table is...

Burkhardt,

You made some great points. I also just read that ShopBot can't do smooth curves in the Z axis so maybe I can't do much better than a mesh model anyways? Faceted models will probably...

I just tried saving a model as an STL file and I set the chord height and angle controls as small as ProE would let me. It doesn't look perfect but it isn't terrible either. That might be a good...

Thanks for the tips everyone. I looked into generating G-code with our ProE. Our software has more or less a demo of that capability but we'd need to purchase a very expensive plug-in to get full...

I'm thinking about getting a ShopBot and I'd appreciate some help in figuring out my CAM software needs. We design 3D parts in ProE and Creo. We normally work with IGES and STEP files. ShopBot comes...