PNC 1050 Cutting

[Bunky67]

I finally got my PNC 1050 up and running, tonight I made my first couple of cut's, and they turned out ok, But my plotter sounds like it's laboring, working harder then it should, I believe I have the blade adjusted correctly, and I have tried to adjust the plotter pen force, and have gotten it a little to light,

I'm running Corel Draw and was wondering if there was speed setting or something I might need to adjust,


Thanks

 

[round man]

those old rolands can be noisy by today's standards,... they used stepper motors which are much noisier than todays servo motors,....that noise used to be the sound of the plotter making you money

 

[OldPaint]

i called mine ORCA....is what the old PNC-1000 made sounds like)))

 

[Mosh]

They make strange noises....The old Gerber ones were REAL LOUD. Rattling those weights that sat on top the blade.

 

[Z SIGNS]

Love the sound of old stepper motors.Kinda sounds like r2d2 from star wars

 

[Bunky67]

Sounds

I recognize the main sound, but when cutting it almost sounds like it was laboring or working real hard, I will just keep an eye on it.

 

[round man]

I seem to recall a curve smoothing option in the plotter menu that if set wrong would make the stepper motors chatter bad while cutting curves

 

[Cyw]

If your saving to plt, adjust the curve resolution to 0.0 in the advanced plt filter settings
Different versions of Corel had different default settings in place for those plt export settings.