Bit check question

[myshop1044]

I read on the forum a good while back, one user leaves the same bit it place on the first pass of all the bit checks,
then puts the correct bit in when needed and hits redefine when asked. I have never tried it, maybe on my next multiple bit project.

[bergerud]

Many of us just use one bit for all of the initial measurements and then later put in the right bit when it is used. That is a good point that Henry and Perry have added to this thread.

(That is not, however, what Steve, Floyd, and I were hijacking the thread to ponder. Steve noted that one can change the bit choice at the keypad with the arrows buttons.)

[DickB]

I hax an issue when I tried that so did not try again. May have been unrelated. I don't recall the exact issue but it ruined my project.

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[myshop1044]

Which one did you have a issue with, the key pad or the same bit trick?

[SteveNelson46]

Very interesting. I have never played with that. Surely you cannot change the bit that was assigned in Designer. Do you mean that you can choose a different order to measure the project bits, or, do you really mean you can change the bits that a project uses?

Anyone else played with this?

It does seem a bit odd. I have never tried it so I don't know how it would work. You would loose control of the bit and couldn't set things like inset or depth. But, like driving on the left side of the road, it can be done.

[DickB]

Which one did you have a issue with, the key pad or the same bit trick?

Same bit.

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[bergerud]

It does seem a bit odd. I have never tried it so I don't know how it would work. You would loose control of the bit and couldn't set things like inset or depth. But, like driving on the left side of the road, it can be done.

I do not think that the pre-compiled project code can be changed at the machine. I think the project would be carried out exactly the same no matter what bit you choose with the keypad. Experiment required!

[myshop1044]

I am going it give the same bit test on a project this afternoon. I will use the 1/16 carving bit in stead of loading the V bit and cutting bit on the first pass, the load them when needed, we will see, the plot thickness!!!!!

[fwharris]

I do not think that the pre-compiled project code can be changed at the machine. I think the project would be carried out exactly the same no matter what bit you choose with the keypad. Experiment required!

I believe that if the bit was changed at the machine it would not change any of the pre compiled programing and the project would be ran as designed but the end results would be with what ever the new bit did. I had one customer asking how come their patterns would not carve out as designed and why the bit was breaking. After talking through his process I found out he was changing the pattern bit at the machine to the 1/8 straight bit. He could not give me a good reason for doing so other than, well the selection was there.

[fwharris]

I am going it give the same bit test on a project this afternoon. I will use the 1/16 carving bit in stead of loading the V bit and cutting bit on the first pass, the load them when needed, we will see, the plot thickness!!!!!

This has been an old work around for some time. When 2.0 version came out we were not able to do this and the software techs made the programing change, loosened the bit length tolerances, so that we could. Before the changes the project would not run if the bit length was outside the tolerance.