1ST Cut. Small but it worked.

[planekrazie]

Hey Guys, My router is done!! I made my 1st Cut today. It was a horse that someone posted the g-code for. Well Here it is. Sorry for the Image.
Steve

[the4thseal]

Looking good! Keep at it.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Never apologist for finishing something!

[the4thseal]

Apologize. oops!

[HayTay]

Fantastic job, planekrazie! That first cut makes your heart soar. The fancy horse turned out great.

Your first cut turned out better than mine. My end mill slipped out of the collet about half way through the first pass and dug a sizeable hole in the MDF table top before snapping into a half-dozen pieces. A valuable lesson was learned and I haven't done it since.

Happy cutting!!!

[planekrazie]

Thanks Guys, I still have some binding in some places. A simple question for all you cnc Gurus... Where is the most common starting point for 0,0,0? Left side or right? Also How far up from the table surface is the Z axis for its zero? Thats to the tip of the tooling bit..
Thanks for all the great comments. Talk about excited. My wife thought I cut my fingers off when I came in running to get her LOL.
Steve

[Jason Marsha]

The joy of the first cut, congratulations. From here on in you will crave more and more complicated cuts as your confidence grows and it certainly helps to have a quality machine such as yours.
I personally start my on the left just as if I was viewing the x and y axis on a piece of graph paper from above.
I normally home at the top of Z axis travel but I cannot tell you the last time I homed my machine, I just set my Z 0 as the top of the stock to be engraved.

Jason.

[biomed_eng]

Great job! First cut!! Awesome!!!