Ideally, everything would be covered at:
which is where the documentation is moving to.
Agree any scrap wood you have is best to start with, but a sheet of MDF is inexpensive and can be had in sizes which will fit on the machine bed and in a typical car. I’m cheap, and my wife hates it, but I’ve gotten pretty good at estimating how much lumber there is in an abandoned piece of furniture by the side of the road…
The biggest mistakes I see on support (most of which have already been mentioned here) are:
- skipping over the documentation/making assumptions/not asking questions
- not installing tools/collets correctly and failing to clean an assembled ER-11 collet/nut
- workholding — there’s actually a post on that:
I wrote up a beginning to end post at:
and that and:
and if you want to do 3D modeling in Carbide Create Pro:
should cover the basics — anything you can’t find in the above, or by searching here:
https://community.carbide3d.com/search?q=search%20term%20here
just ask and we’ll look into it with you