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Constraint
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| The equipment constraints describe the limits of your machine in feed rate and spindle speed. These are used to limit the maximum speed or feed calculated in the g-code during the next step.
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| The safe Z is the height that the tool will be for all rapid moves. The top of the material to be cut is always at a Z axis value of zero. Any cutting moves at feed rate will be with Z less than zero. Rapid moves will occur with Z greater than zero at the safe Z height.
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| There is list of pre-defined materials, each of which have a predefined surface feet or meters per minute as a cutting speed. It is also possible to select the "Custom Material Setting" and enter your own surface speed for the material you are cutting. The surface speed is used to calculate the speed and feed in the g-code during the next step.
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| D2nc supports at tool table to build a library of tools. Tools added into the tool table can be selected during the next step when defining paths. Various aspects of the tool described in the tool table are used calculate the speed and feed and what type of operation the tool is suitable for. While defining tools is optional it is recommended for the following reasons:
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| 1. | If there is no tool defined in the table you are asked to enter a tool diameter which is assigned to the default tool 0. If you define several machine operations and each operation uses a different diameter, the g-code will have the same tool 0 for each operation making tool changes a problem.
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| 2. | Tool 0 uses a generic set of parameters and may not produce the optimal speed and feed.
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| Rapid feed transition is the height, during a move downwards, at which a Z axis will change from the rapid rate to the plunge rate that is defined in the path definition. If progressive transition is checked, the transition height will move down by the step size on each subsequent pass.
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