3D Herringbone Pattern

Hello!

Is it possible to create this design in carbide create?

Sure, but one has to do a bit of an end-run around how things are cut since the obvious approach doesn’t work:

Draw up the top edges, then cut with a V carving:

Join things together:

Yes

Duplicate:

Either inset each piece slightly, or use separate toolpaths so that only non-adjacent regions are associated with a given toolpath:

so instead, one will need to set up diamond shapes for V carving:

which will need to be duplicated:

Then each connected with a line which cuts to the desired depth:

which previews as:

Attached as a v8 file:

herringbone_v8.c2d (68 KB)

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That’s so helpful. Great walkthrough. thanks!!!