justinclift
commented
4 years ago It's a "maximum" feed rate, and - for me at least - I tend to set it to what the machine seems happy with on that particular axis.
eg see how fast any particular axis seems to move in a reliable + repeatable fashion, then set the feed rate maximum for that axis to that value
The difference of X & Y axis feedrates compared to Z axis is probably due to different tech being used on the example settings. For example, it's pretty common to have belt driven motors run the X and Y axis, with the Z axis being ball screw driven. Belt driven setups seem to have much higher potential feed rates than ball screws. So, there's generally a difference there.
Does that help? :smile:
DeanCavaliere
Depending on which settings_ you look at on here, you can see different values of things like jerk, feedrate, velocity, etc etc. The values of x and y are typically exactly the same but z is usually different. For example, in settings_shapeoko2dual, the x axis has a velocity/feedrate of 50000 while the z axis has a value of 1200.
Why is this? is there a relationship between these values so that the x/y and z axis all move at the same relative speeds in reality? or can these values be arbitrarily chosen?