https://ronreynolds.com/wiki/ 2026-05-03T14:32:58+00:00 https://ronreynolds.com/wiki/ https://ronreynolds.com/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2025-08-11T15:33:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ronreynolds.com/wiki/doku.php?id=cnc:gcodes&rev=1754926388&do=diff while running a CNC project i noticed a lot of wasted Z-axis movement (it was a raster pattern stepping along the Y axis tho this would have happened in the X-axis as well) whereby the cutter wasn't actually cutting as it was tracing over the previous cut-path for the same Y value. my idea is to remove those pointless lines to optimize the speed (by how much is TBD). text/html 2025-10-09T16:17:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ronreynolds.com/wiki/doku.php?id=cnc:rotary-jobs&rev=1760026670&do=diff Design/Toolpath Job Setup * X-Y datum is CENTER of material * actually this is problematic; if you set the X-Y origin to a bottom (left or right) point you zero off the end of the material (or as far as you want the cuts to go) which ensures you have enough material, especially if, like me, you set the rotary motor AND chuck BEYOND the physical max-Y range of the machine so that it is LITERALLY impossible for the cutter to reach the rotary axis motor (one less thing to worry about)