And I know the obvious response is that it wasn’t zero’ed but it was. If fact, the previous job was zero’ed at 1.5", and this job is only .75", so it wasn’t carried over from the previous job done right before this. For it to have done this, I would have had to set it well below between jobs.
I also verified that the bit didn’t slip at all. I always set sweepy even with the end of the bit, and it was still even.
I’ve used this file several times, and it has always worked flawlessly. The only thing I ever change is the thickness to get that as close as possible.
Is there something I’m missing? Sometimes someone can have a typo in settings and can’t see it until others have looked at it.
If the origin is set at the top of the stock, then it shouldn’t be necessary to change the stock thickness (so long as the stock is thick enough for the deepest cut) since everything would be relative to the surface of the stock.
Any chance you ran into something right at the start of the carve, and lost steps at top-of-Z? Like, could your dust-collection have gotten hung up on something or such-like?
It looks like a simple vcarve and maybe you should have done an advanced vcarve. A simple vcarve tries to go down the middle of lines until it touches both sides. Where an advanced vcarve goes around he perimeter of the lines to the depth specified. When you limit the depth in a simple vcarve you get weird results. Try doing an advanced vcarve and see what the simulation looks like.
In the old days before advanced vcarve a simple vcarve would look like what you got. From your simulation and the result there is something definitely wrong.
