201 Bit Broke - How should I adjust my settings

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Were you cutting as a slot just as narrow as the endmill? That results in 100% tooling engagement and is difficult for the machine to do.

Add geometry and cut as a pocket down to at least tab depth:

Adding geometry to cut as a pocket with a finishing pass

One technique which is often suggested to avoid slotting is to add geometry around a part which one wishes to cut out and cut as a pocket down to tab depth — here’s one technique for that. In this case, the project is a bevel gauge which will be cut out of 0.0625" (~1.5mm) thick aluminum: [bevelgauge] Due to the narrowness of the angles, an 0.03125" endmill has to be used, so after importing and scaling the file (we will be cutting out one which is 3") we select the perimeter and offset it tw…