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Quick note to say I tried setting z-zero at the waste board and defining zero at the bottom of the stock in job setup in Carbide Create and it seemed to work great. Only did a quick test but thought I would report back

Can the same effect be done by setting z-zero at your waste board and defining zero at the bottom of the stock in job setup in Carbide Create?

Jon,
Drill press is nothing special but gets the job done. It is just a cheap harbor freight bench drill press. This is the model: https://www.harborfreight.com/8-in-5-sp ... 60238.html

Couple pictures of the touchoff plate, linuxCNC button (upper right hand corner), as well as a picture of my grounding wire on the inside of the tube. Have had trouble with static in the past so wanted to try to prevent static buildup.

Been a while since I have posted, but recently I made a few updates to my CNC. First update was to my dust shoe. My first dust shoe was never really designed to be permanent and was showing it's age (aka falling apart!). I have also always liked the idea of fixed z height dust boot so I designed one...

My understanding was upper left was zero on many industrial CNC machines as that is the typical location of the hard stop for work holding. (clamps push the part up and to the left).

That being said I set my machine zero as lower left 'cause it makes the most sense in my head.

Seeing that you are in the UK you could take a look here for v-wheels: https://amberspyglass.co.uk/store/v-wheel.html Unfortunately it looks like the store is closed until April 15th. Otherwise inventables sells them https://www.inventables.com/technologies/dual-bearing-v-wheel-kit Openbuilds also s...

Glad I saw this thread. I missed the announcement that Carbide Create is now free! I will have to give it a look. Thanks!

A good company with continue to improve its product so I imagine there will eventually be a ShapeOkO 4. That being said I hope they also "go back to their roots" and look at producing a low cost CNC as well. They have made the ShapeOkO better with each revision but have also increased the cost as we...

twforeman wrote:I'm a bad Shapeoko owner, I don't use my machine nearly as much as I should.

I think you should start a club so I can join

Other projects / responsibilities / hobbies / life keep me from this hobby more than I would like!