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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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