
Therefore, this property (along with all other Cutting Parameters can be defined per material / machine). The greater the stepover the faster the job will be machined, but this must be balanced with the material being cut and the tooling being used, to ensure that the tool does not break. For example, when raster machining the cutter will machine along the X axis, stepover in the Y direction and return parallel to the first line of cut. The distance the cutter moves over when doing area clearance cutting. 96 x 48 if the part you plan to cut is only 12 x 12 as this would make the resolution in the 12 x 12 area very low.

It would not be advisable to set your material to be the size of your machine - e.g. As previously stated these are extremely general guidelines as on slower/older computers operations with the highest setting may take a long time to calculate.Īs the Resolution is applied across your whole work area it is important to set the size of your part to just be big enough to contain the part you plan to carve.

a school of fish) then the High or Highest setting would be better. a fish) then the standard resolution would be OK but if it was a part with many detailed items in it (e.g. The reason that the detail of your part needs to be taken into account is that if you were making a part with one large item in it (e.g. If the part you are making is going to be relatively large (over 18 inches) but still has small details, you may want to choose a higher Resolution such as High (3 x slower) and for very large parts (over 48 inches) with small details then the Highest (7 x slower) setting may be appropriate. Generally speaking, the Standard (fastest) setting will be acceptable for the majority of parts that Aspire users make. The better the resolution quality chosen, the slower the computer will perform.Īs this is completely dependent on the particular part you are working on and your computer hardware performance, it is difficult in a document like this to recommend what the setting should be. Setting the Resolution allows you to choose the best balance of quality and speed for the part you are working on.

When working with 3D models a lot of calculation and memory may be required for certain operations. This sets the resolution/quality for the 3D model.
