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Chatter Marks on Cutting
Took the MM beast for a drive today and ran some cuts and noticed that i am experiencing chatter on the cutting of rounded edges on the board.
- I am using a Makita Router - 6mm 2 Flute Straight Cutter - 12mm MDF - 2500mm per minute feed rate - Using a 4:1 Gear Reduction Setup - Straight cuts in both X + Y are perfect Funny thing is that the board i am cutting is four sided and the chatter marks appears on only 3 of the 4 corners. Is this a router issue or is the feed rate too high? |
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May be - one or more of the V roller on your Z is loose
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It's all tight
I am suspecting that after inspecting the 4 corners, all have various levels of chatter from none to worse which leads me to believe my tabs came loose and where not thick enough. Any are thoughts on the causes i can check? |
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Hi maybe 3 corners are made of a bunch of small lines and one is an arc.
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I checked that also, that was one of the first things i learnt about CAM and vectors and always ensure i convert to ARC or BEZIER.
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What is you micro stepping setup?
What is your Mach3 speed and acceleration? What is the length of the cutter? Did you cut in one pass ? |
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Kobus, 3 passes . . . see the marks
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Try the first two passes in climb mode and the final in conventional and it will help some.
If it is not segments in your design, it has to be a little slop in the machine somewhere. Kenneth |
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Update...
After making some noise today and adjusting the thickness and quantity of tabs i concluded that the chatter marks are due to the parts vibrating while cutting and nothing attributed to issues of mechanical nature (Thank Goodness!)
I thickened the tabs to 5mm and she cuts like a laser on the corners now. To paraphrase Gerald...."The MechMate build is a passing phase, you will have a life time of Toolpathes and CAD / CAM to deal with for the rest of your life" |
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Anyway, congrats on getting your machine to cut!
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Congratulations. Wow...the machine builds just keep coming. Funny how that happens.
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