![]() ![]() Estlcam CAM Software for Beginnersįlip the plug.Estlcam is the software I chose to prepare for milling my butterfly capacitor. It should pick up, move, drop down and go. Put the tip of the pen or tool a hair above where you want it to start and hit run. It will start where ever your head currently is. View it from the edge and you can see, that the path is below your z-home, and the movements are above z-home. If you have the bed size adjusted you can get a sense of scale. You will get a depth popup, for the pen I use 1mm or less, anything else set it to the thickness of your material plus a bit to cut all the way through. To use the pen you want to drawn on the line so use engrave tool centered on lineif you were cutting a part you can choose part tool edge on the outside of lineor cutout tool edge in inside of line.Ĭlick Engrave then just click on each line segment. Some people like to work from the center for round or oval objects. ![]() When you start your program the machine will work to the right and above where you start it from represented by the blue plus. This is whatever units you save your DXF as. This is what the crown looks like imported in inches as the initial units. I used this one in the videoCrown Vector. Get some files from here, Need a new source, sorry. You can use any vector program to make them, illustrator, SolidWorks, etc. The creator of Estlcam recently updated his software for us! Grid Size. Setting the z-axis origin to the top of the material makes it easy to set the home position, along with that is program start - at origin. You should change the milling direction depending on what kind of material you are cutting, more on this in another post. This is how far above the material it should travel to before it moves. After restarting Estlcam, open the setup tab, these are the settings from the first window plus a few extra.Ĭhanging the clearance plane to something a little smaller really speeds up a job since the z axis is the slowest. Using the default options in the installer, add Icon to start menu and desktop.Īfter you click okay close Estlcam and restart it to update the settings. Please buy a copy if you find this works for you. ![]() The installer is in German I think but the options are easy to understand. This software seems to do everything I want. ![]()
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