I just did a successful crown test by copying Ryan’s gcode and I have been trying to follow the Estlcam basics tutorial. I am stuck at the tool settings step. The screenshot doesn’t match what I see. Searching I found somebody who had almost the same question more than a year ago, but the answer is unclear to me and there is still a mismatch. Can those settings just be ignored?
Yes you can ignore them usually. If you hover your mouse over them, a pretty detailed pop up will happen to explain them.
The “a” is plunge angle. Usually you want that directly into the material, but you can make it ramp in. The angle setting is the tip angle and will only get changed from 180 if you are using a “V” bit.