My Shapeoko 3 took just just one week to reach a remote corner of Tasmania from the time I placed the order, which must be something of a record!
I’m exploring the Advanced V Carve capabilities of Carbide Create/Motion and encountering some difficulties. Can anyone assist? Documentation seems a bit thin on the ground.
I have attempted to use the advanced V cut feature on Carbide Create, as shown in the YouTube clip – “Carbide Create Gets a New Toolpath: Advanced Vcarve.” This is about all I can find on this capability. The first cut, which uses a 0.125” end mill to rough out the design, works fine. Then, when it pauses, I change to a 60 degree V cut blade (as in the video), and attempt to jog the machine to ensure that the Z axis is properly rezeroed for the new cutter to create a uniform base for the design. Once I move into the jog window, none of the commands appear to work and I am unable to proceed beyond this point. Nor can I resume cutting. All I can do is abort the operation. I am zeroing manually, unlike in the video, but otherwise (as far as I can see) doing exactly the same as in the video. Can anyone tell me what I am missing here?
you’re going to either need a bitsetter to automatically zero for you, or you need to split the gcode file into two.
splitting the file is not all THAT complicated, but needs a text editor (or an online tool that I want to write but haven’t done yet)… if that’s the path you want to go down I or others can quickly explain what to do there.
at https://fenrus75.github.io/FenrusCNCtools/javascript/gcodesplit.html you can load your “advanced v-carve” gcode, and it will split it into smaller files, one per tool, that you can then just carve one at a time. This allows you to zero the new bit using whatever method you normally use…
(the app runs inside your browser, nothing is uploaded to any server)