is i-picture software 1.2 the same for windows 7/10 ?

to answer the question of how many motors are on a 1013, the answer is three. One for each of the axis's.

The most common one to fail is the X axis spindle motor, it's really not as heavy duty as it should be to handle the side loading that occurs when the bit is carving back and forth.

boy, i really like this site! everyone is so nice and helpful.. thanks

I believe I have the majority of the images on my hard drive, a few I deleted if I knew I never would use them. I have put them all onto a DVD-R as photos a few minutes ago, and can mail it to you if you want to email me an address. Note that they are organized into files that suit me....plants, frames, people, etc.....

Also I have included whatever else I've accumulated over the past three years and used myself, these were already in the different files and it was easier to put them all on rather than pick n choose which ones were on the disc. Any file that starts with a CT----- would be one that was on the original disk from oliver.

You may want to play with any that aren't original, my photo editing skills don't match Bob's but suit me.

another question, i have had a huge cnc router machine in the garage just sitting covered up...its the router master 52, 4ft X 8ft and it works great but i don't know how to use it but! after all this great info from you guys and great minds here i was thinking on maybe buying mach3 for it and try it!!! it's the spacesaver one that sits standing up! apparnetly it was 60,000 new in 2002, is there any software programs that are somewhat user friendly ?  like this 1013 i picture thing ??   just thinking!  thanks

well there was a guy i was talking to Ken and he had gotton the same machine, but he had totally updated his computer and all cnc motors etc... never heard how it turned out but, mine i just never got wired up to 220 to run it right, i tested all the xyz and worked fine! the guy's dad i got it from said said his son updated the software and spent about 2,000 but i'm not sure... but also said the machine was working great before being stored. but back then i was frankly kinda scared of it because of all the #s of the xyz it showed! but now i'm interested after this 1013 and know just do it!! if i mess something up then i will just cross that bridge when it happends.. i want a program that will take like a ( 65 MUSTANG ) ON A SCREEN SHOT AND DO IT, i know i will need to learn things etc but thats fine! don't mind spending a few bucks for software.. it has the complete computer/monitor etc.. and it all works

If you don't use blur and a white edging around your picture, what you end up with the first carve is a bit that is immediately plunging down to 1/4" and then trying to carve at that depth all the way across 11" of X axis. That is a lot of sideloading on the bit which will struggle to cut through. The spindle motor really wasn't designed to handle that load, especially if you are using a hard wood. After the first pass or two along the X axis it should ease up and return to norm. What the white border does is show the machine what the starting height on Z is, and the blur allows each pass to take a deeper cut on each pass until it gets down to 1/4" for the rest of the carving. It will then curve up to the white border on each end of each X pass. A 1/4" Z dimension on your carving, with a gausian blur of about 5.0, will only take 5-6 passes to reach final depth....about 0.039" along the Y axis. I'll try to show you what one of mine looks like, the white border can be quite small.

Couple other suggestions, you should always be cutting across the grain. Cutting with the grain with sometimes give you splinters along the grain rather than chipping off the wood like it's supposed to. For most wood, this means you need to rotate your picture 90 degrees before running ipicture. In your example, that would give you 6.0 11.0 0.25



It may be a little tough to see the white border, but you can see around the edge of the black how the blur works.