Setup and calibrate a rotary for dummies.
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Ray Acevedo
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- Accessories: Rotary
Does one of these exist? Really looking for a beginners guide to setting up the rotary that came with my 1390. I know where to plug it in and I see how to enable it in RDworks, but that's about it. What numbers to you put for diameter and any other settings. How do you calibrate it?
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Willy Ivy
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- Accessories: Hot dog rotary
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I assume (not really a good thing) it is a hot dog rotary as you do not say what it is.
If it is, go to Russ's RDWorks learning lab on youtube and follow the steps in video #11 part 1 and 2.
That's it.
If you follow this step by step it does not matter what the circumference size is and you don't have to calculate or change some number for each job.
Once you know what Y percentage to enter for your machine, you simply add that number each time.
I see and hear all these post about changing numbers in the software dependent on the size of the item, I never did that and I use to use my hot dog rotary a lot.
Now I only use the DIY rotary that Gene offered up on this forum for everything. It is driven by the gantry.
If it is, go to Russ's RDWorks learning lab on youtube and follow the steps in video #11 part 1 and 2.
That's it.
If you follow this step by step it does not matter what the circumference size is and you don't have to calculate or change some number for each job.
Once you know what Y percentage to enter for your machine, you simply add that number each time.
I see and hear all these post about changing numbers in the software dependent on the size of the item, I never did that and I use to use my hot dog rotary a lot.
Now I only use the DIY rotary that Gene offered up on this forum for everything. It is driven by the gantry.
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