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We got a ShopSabre Pro510 this past month and getting up to speed with it. It has a 10 hp ATC spindle, tangential knife and optiscout camera.
I'm planning on cutting a lot of aluminum and dibond signs through optiscout and tons of holes. Some of the settings in optiscout are either limited or I'm not understanding it correctly. I'm able to get the system to read registration marks and cut correctly for the outside shape of the signs. Took me a few tries to figure out how to do multiple passes here or onion skin it, but having more trouble with the holes.
First I tried a .1875" o flute upcut bit with optiscout set to cut inside diameter of a .25" circle for the holes, for some reason I got .375" dia. holes, so I guess inside means to center of tool?? Then I figured out how to replace the circles with "drill marks" so they are basically single nodes that look like a target. But here I'm still only able to drill straight down, no spiral cut options or peck drilling that I can find. So I drill straight down with the same type of bit but .25" and it cuts the holes fine, but it's pushing the chips through and between my sheet and spoilboad and causing issues.
So I'd like to try a regular drill bit for the holes but having trouble figuring out how to drill a little into the spoilboard so the tip of the drill bit clears and the full diameter of the cutting edge makes the holes. Optiscout uses the low boundry as z0 and you can set it wherever you want really so I know how to get it to go down further than the top of the spoilboard. But is there a way to be able to have some tools go that far and others not? Do I just need to wrap my head around the depth sttings in optiscout and "trick" it somehow? Or can I maybe adjust the tool height for just the drill bit I want to go deeper?
Any thought any optiscout/shopsabre users out here?
I'm planning on cutting a lot of aluminum and dibond signs through optiscout and tons of holes. Some of the settings in optiscout are either limited or I'm not understanding it correctly. I'm able to get the system to read registration marks and cut correctly for the outside shape of the signs. Took me a few tries to figure out how to do multiple passes here or onion skin it, but having more trouble with the holes.
First I tried a .1875" o flute upcut bit with optiscout set to cut inside diameter of a .25" circle for the holes, for some reason I got .375" dia. holes, so I guess inside means to center of tool?? Then I figured out how to replace the circles with "drill marks" so they are basically single nodes that look like a target. But here I'm still only able to drill straight down, no spiral cut options or peck drilling that I can find. So I drill straight down with the same type of bit but .25" and it cuts the holes fine, but it's pushing the chips through and between my sheet and spoilboad and causing issues.
So I'd like to try a regular drill bit for the holes but having trouble figuring out how to drill a little into the spoilboard so the tip of the drill bit clears and the full diameter of the cutting edge makes the holes. Optiscout uses the low boundry as z0 and you can set it wherever you want really so I know how to get it to go down further than the top of the spoilboard. But is there a way to be able to have some tools go that far and others not? Do I just need to wrap my head around the depth sttings in optiscout and "trick" it somehow? Or can I maybe adjust the tool height for just the drill bit I want to go deeper?
Any thought any optiscout/shopsabre users out here?