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Initial setup steps once powered on
Surfacing your spoil board
It is highly recommended to surface the top of your spoil board. Surfacing the entire
working area means that your tool will always be perpendicular to your cutting tool.
To do this, follow the steps above for making a rectangle but make one the size of your
actual working area. This information is stored in the Peripherals tab of commander, do not
use a measuring tape to get these measurements as the physical size and the working size
will be different. See example below for where to find these measurements:
In this case we can see our X and Y maximum travel limits in
Red
and the homing pull off
value in
Orange
. To work out our machine
’
s maximum travel we need to deduct the homing
pull off from the maximum travel. In this case:
X will be [1282 - 3 = 1279mm]
Y will be [1302
–
3 = 1299mm]
When using the spoil board surfacing wizard in Commander, we have preconfigured some
values that suit the QB2 CNC design. It is recommended to keep most of the settings but to
change the “Width (X)” and “Length (Y)” values to match your machine. Once you have
entered t
hese values, you can save this job by clicking the “Generate” button.
This will
prompt you to save the file. Choose a location you can easily find it.
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