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We had our Intermac Jet CT have a similar meltdown a couple of months ago. We got it up and running again by opening the NC cabinet and flipping all the circuit breaker switches off and on again. Probably would pay to give the components in there a good blowout with some compressed air too, and pull...

For letters going outside are you selecting the word as TEXT or closed polylines if it's text explode it and try re grouping. I've gone of the 60 degree bit using flat. The reason I find it dosnt pocket the machine path is if the bit diameter is greater than the area it needs to fit into. I tend to...

I've tried several times pocketing seems to work best but as you say Ben sometimes it leaves a thin line where it hasn't touched between passes. I can get 3d text going but on a 10mm diameter with 60 degrees angle I have to go 8mm deep to get it does. I had better success doing the text in Corel dr...

Alright I had a crack at setting ours up. I set up a 6mm flat top diamond tip mill to engrave text to a depth of 0.5mm. Firstly I tried to use the 3d text feature on ICam, however it came back with an error saying that operation is not allowed on this machine. Next I programmed the text to be pocket...

Too easy mate

Following this. Setting up engraving tools is my next project when we get some downtime in the shop.

I run a 2002 Intermac Jet CT and for programming we use ICAM 3D, so there may be some overlap in programming between the machines. I'm based on the Gold Coast in Australia so I can only really correspond online, but any questions you have, feel free to ask!

Make sure your radius drawing isn't exploded That will create segments the tool will follow By exploded do you mean curves translated in cad as hundreds of tiny linked straight line segments? We had that problem with splines in ICam 3D, but we've found work arounds. Our machine does perfect bottom ...

We do this all day on euro seam so it doesn't chip on the final breakout it really consist of creating a weak spot exactly where you want it to break. [ Genius, I always just cut away from the face, which generally makes cutouts snap out into the waste direction, but I'll be employing this relief c...

Pencils, whiteout, crayons, depends on the texture and colour of the piece, and whether we're cnc millling the cutouts or doing them by hand on the wet floor.

Seconded on the continuous edge blades, and go very slowly using lots of water. Ive seen this stuff melt when dry cut. Also when we're line polishing and smoothing the overhangs, we cut a very small arris into the edges. This stops it chipping so much. Not much you can do at the bridge saw stage but...

Bloody oath. I could not agree more.

Personally, I'd just do some trial and error on some offcuts. We run our 20mm diamond mills at 6000 RPM and 500mm/m feed rate for engineered stone on our Intermac Jet CT, so perhaps set up with some similar settings and adjust them if the machine is working too hard or easily. I typically run throug...

Maintenance-wise, I usually clean all the granite mud left over from the days work with a squidgee and use the clean machine water from the spindle to hose it off before I head home for the day. Monthly I'll scrub it with some CLR descaler and a broom. We just finished milling the table smooth since...

Amazing job mate, im absolutely in love with how that looks installed!