A Brief
Glossary
Bed
The aluminum
Stock
Whatever
Geometric Code, the language of the commands
G.Code
commands
Stepper
A motor which turns in single steps or fractions of one (microsteps)
Motor
the axes as they can accurately
The tool holder on the Spindle motor is an ERI 1 type. The Collet is the compressible
ERII
Collet
the bit and is compressed,
The process by which the router moves the spindle round looking for the limit switches to be activated on
Homing
cycle
all the axes so that it has a defined 'Home' position
The coordinates
Origin
origin which is often but not always the left/front/top
A Jog command tells the machine to move on a single axis, normally used to either position the spindle
Jogging
to the start position for a job or just to move it out of the way.
base with slots to allow stock to be clamped to it. Moved by the Y axis.
material you secure to the bed and cut or engrave.
or combined
into a file (normally .nc) of instructions
move the axis by a very small amount at a time.
holding the bit, by tightening
of the starting position for a particular job, each G-Code file operates in reference to an
Glossary
that the router understands,
to make something
These are used to drive the motion of
the nut at the bottom of the ERI 1
(X/Y/Z) of the material to be cut.
ca be used for specific
part that surrounds
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