CNC Shark Forum

I think I bought the first machine from Rockler Al had no clue how to make it work and I could not get the machine to cut the demo square more than twice All the info that I was told at the time has proven to be wrong. It does not take a high speed USB port to make it run. when I was told this it co...

OK I'm sure I'll catch all kinds of heck for this but here goes. When I started using CNC equipment many years ago it was with Flashcut. that being said when I purchased my first Shark it came with a very unusable Mach3 program. something I was not use to. Since all things mentioned in above posts a...

Hitest
the instruction manual left a lot to be desired ( as I recall )
seems it left a lot of things out.
Ken

Hitest I will answer this the best way possible :shock: it all depends on your operating system. you want the SD card to work the way it should with your system. its like the old floppy disks and the 3.5 disks some came formated and some did not and some did not work with other operating systems and...

Bob
thank you for posting the web site
I have it downloaded but could not remember what the site was
hope that gives them an idea
ken

yes with the proper programing
also there are a lot of different styles of dovetails
that can be done on a CNC machine that is not your typical V bit style
Ken

do you feel that this is a G-code failure
or do you think its a Mach3 failure
Ken

Mike
Mach3 takes a high speed USB port
if yours is not setup that way you will get this message
learned that the hard way also
Ken

Kevin I've done small engraving on brass as well as plastic it is possible but you must make sure the table is level and the bit in the router does not spin out of round ( precision Collette) the thickness on the plastic is .001 on a 1/16 inch thick piece its a lot harder with the basic Mach3 contro...

Mike
your line is to thick
it should be hairline thickness
set your depth of cut per pass and it should
go back and forth without moving side to side
Ken