Gantry Upgrade to C-Beam

I did a quick test of using pocket strategy to do the profile cut in a unused space on the material.

I made a offset outline 40% of the bit diameter around my test object (bat symbol) and did a pocket cut with a 40% step over so it would do it in 2 passes.
Cut at .39mm depth, 1016 mm/min, 18,000 rpm
I wet with WD40 and vacuumed up chips

I did the pocket cut for the first 90% of the material, then switched to a traditional profile strategy with tabs for the remainder. I could not make tabs automatically happen with the pocket cut, but I think I can manual add them in if I want.

It worked fine. No broken bits, no bad “sounds”, Lots of chips and mess.

Now to run the bracket print. That will take about 4 hours so I may wait till the weekend as I need to monitor it closely.

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