WillAdams
April 10, 2022, 6:16pm
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Wrote a bit about previewing the roundover cut using V endmills at:
These are usually used in routers for decorative effects in wood:
but they are potentially useful for joinery:
They are also useful for rounding off parts to allow rotary motion as for a hinged lid.
Unfortunately, Carbide Create does not support this endmill geometry — but using the new support for previewing a V endmill when used in a No Offset Contour toolpath, it should be possible to preview them w/ confidence by stacking a series of V endmill cuts.
The parts cut out well:
and cutting the holes for the hinges using the jig went well — found some bamboo skewers, but they are ~2.1mm diameter, so probably the #111 endmill would be better than the #121 .
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