I am new to Carbide Create and am currently using the CC Pro 14-day trial. One of my first projects is to create a topographic model of Mt. Saint Helens on a piece of scrap plywood and I am following @wmoy’s YouTube tutorial. In the video, Winston is using an older version of CC Pro and he shows how to start with a 0.25 roughing step, followed by .125 roughing before proceeding to a .125 ballnose finishing toolpath.
When I replicate this with my model, I noticed a couple of things:
- The .25 roughing operation went smoothly
- CM prompted me to swap to my .125 square cutter (as expected) once the initial toolpath was finished, but it didn’t probe with the bitsetter before progressing to the second toolpath.
- I then broke up the three toolpath into separate jobs for the Shapeoko, but CC Pro/CM repeated many of the cutting operations that had already been finished by the 1st toolpath
Questions:
- Should CM have automatically probed the x-axis using my Shapeoko Pro’s BitZero in-between toolpath?
- How do I avoid the air-cutting between the two roughing passes and only have the second roughing pass cut areas left behind by the first toolpath?
Thanks in advance for your advice!