The Basic ShopBot Control Panel Installing the USB to Serial Adapter Drivers Installing the Software Starting Up The Basic ShopBot Command Principle Entering Values (Parameters) So Let’s Run a Part File Getting Help The Layout of Your ShopBot Table: Directions, Distances, and Base Coordinates The Logic of XYZ Giving Directions; ABSOLUTE vs RELATIVE distance You Can Reorganize Your “Graph Paper” Temporary Zero Points When Cutting Files Table Base Coordinates vs Current Working Coordinates Software Limit Checking Maintaining Accurate XYZ Locations Changing the Direction of Movement of an Axis Software Axis Designation Optional 4th or 5th Axis or Channel Inches or Millimeters

What Your Tool Can Do Giving Action Commands Changing Settings and Values (Commands) Utility Commands ShopBot Part Files ( .sbp) What’s in a Part File Using the Editor Automatic Recording of Things You Do at the Keyboard Don’t Let this Scare You Creating Part Files from other Software From Your Ideas to a ShopBot Product (… creating your Part File) Representation to Realization A First Project: Surfacing Your Table Working with Your Computer Working with Your Tool Speeds, Feed-Rates and Rapid-Positioning Acceleration and Deceleration ‘Ramping’ Direction of Cut and Tool Path Tooling Mounting Routers, Spindles, Lasers or Others Tools Clamping Your Material Dust Collection Working with Accessories Input Switches, Limit Switches and STOP Inputs ShopBot’s Remote ‘Stop’ Button Output Switches Additional Axes, Rotary Indexers, Lathes 3-D Digitizing (Probing Surfaces) Working with the ShopBot Converters Starting a Conversion Specific Info for Each Type of Conversion Conversion from HPGL Plotter File Format: Conversion from G-Code to ShopBot Part File Code: Conversion from .TIF Format (bitmap data) to a ShopBot Part File: Maintenance Mechanical Adjustment - X & Y Axes Mechanical Adjustment — Z Axis SBG00142070401UserGuide.doc Copyright 2007 ShopBot Tools, Inc Electrical/Electronic Control Software Troubleshooting First get your thinking right Dealing with Tool Operation Problems: Primary Failures Intermittent Connection Problem: Changing the direction of a motor: Dealing with Tool Operation Problems: Qualitative Issues Getting Help ShopBot FAX FORM Technical Information Specifications ShopBot Computer Requirements Unit Values for Different Gear Ratios (PRT Tools Only) Wiring and Hookup Diagram For PRTalpha Wiring and Hookup Diagram for PRT Functions Supported by ShopBot’s Calculator [UU]

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