if i get 0.01" / 0.25 mm then i am a happy xcarver, i can and have got better than that but its a much slower job, with meshcam on my xcarve i can rough and leave 0.1 mm then finish pass with a round over bit for a super finish that needs a dust with 320/400 grit
a lot of posts here about tolerance of parts and carves Ive bitten my tongue,
a lot of unreal expectations about what this machine “should” do with little to no assembly knowledge or experience, i am amazed at something so cheap to build can do what it does,
how much does an Arduino cost ? what can it do? Wow !!!
i found a pricing formula, if this is correct then how much did and xcarve cost to make , then wholesale , then retail(which we know)
labour + material = cost
cost x 2 = wholesale
wholesale x 2 = retail
work backwards and you get an idea how insanely awesome this bit of kit is
a mate of mine runs a 1 man kitchen fabrication business, he bought a 2400x1200 multicam cnc machine , im going to ask him his tolerances asap, ill report back,
he paid $60k AUD ($45kUS) machine and $20k software, of course its mega fancy , 6kw spindle , ATC , and 600 ipm full depth cuts 3/4" 1 pass,
anyway, im happy with what it does, all the parts i make i can make faster by hand, if i make 1 part a day and the XC makes 1 then im ahead a long way, and my made by hand repeat-ability is no where near the xcarve,
cheers
GC