Getting Started

Max Travel: X200mm Y160mm Y160mm

Buildbotics Controller

Preflight Check

• Add a few drops of light machine oil to the two oil cups to ensure slides and screws stay lubricated while in use.

Spindle

10,000 RPM Pulley

The Buildbotics controller is configured to use metric (mm) units.

Importing DXF in VCarve Pro

• Import the DXF file from your CAD drawing

• Select all the imported entities and Join Vectors.

• If needed, rescale the drawing by using Set Selected Objects Size in the Transform Objects group, check Link XY, and enter *i= in the Width(X) or Width(Y) at the end of the dimension. It will convert the metric dimensions automatically to inches.

Motor Configuration

• Drive Current: 2

• Idle Current: 0

• Microsteps: 32

• Max Velocity: 0.66 (520 rpm) [NEMA #23 Max: 530]

• Max Accel: 8.826

• Max Jerk: 50

• Step Angle: 1.8

• Travel / Rev: 1.27mm

Homing

• Stall Microstep: 8

• Search Velocity: 0.66

• Stall Volts: 6

• Stall Sample Time: 50

• Stall Current: 0.2

• Zero Backoff: 5

Getting Started

Our CNC Router is primarily used for woodworking but may be used to cut 1/8" aluminum sheets or 1/4" plastic sheets.

Aluminum

Resources