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CALCULATORS
There are a handful of
useful calculators here:
BELT LENGTH. Calculating the required belt length if you know the pulley
diameters and center distance between the them.
"STEPS PER UNIT". Once you get your CNC conversion going, you'll need to
enter the appropriate settings into your g-code interpreter software/driver. A
popular one is Mach from artofcnc. We've called it the "Steps per unit"
calculator.
CUTTING SPEEDS. A common
question that many of us ask is "what's the appropriate speed, feed, depth of
cut for this operation?". Here's where the cutting speed calculator will help
out.
UNIT CONVERSION. Let's
not forget one that's used often here. Many (if not all) of the imported
machines are metric unit-based. If you're here in the states, you'll often need
to convert between the imperial and metric system. The basic conversion factor
is 25.40mm = 1 inch.
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