Originally Posted by zaebis  Ok cool. Still waiting for mine to arrive to play with it myself. I have a few project-prototypes that have to be machinned out of wax (machinneable wax that is) which can be fed 200+ IPM. Too slow a feed may cause it to melt unless I bring the spindle down to a crawl. I will have to imperically find out the best settings I guess.
How does your machine behave at 60 IPM with frequent changes of direction with respect to column flex? |
the nm135 rev 2.1 is set by default to 75ipm. in theory you can play with motor tuning in mach3 to make it run faster. just dont "expect" it to be faster.
with more powerful motors 200ipm is doable, but at that point you may or may not be putting excessive wear on the machine ways. i know ive seen sieg x3 based machines doing 160ipm on this forum, so it is theoretically possible. ive gotton my nm-070 to do 150ipm but i leave it at 100ipm for better acceleration.