Carbide Create Beta 760

[Chaotica (Joel McKenzie)]

Certainly. In attempting to reduce the cut time of this design, I ended up increasing it to over an hour due to all the time spent in the air.

RepresentLogoMedal_100mm v2.c2d (2.4 MB)

[TheWoodworker (Scott Hampshire)]

We have several posts documenting the same behavior that you can find here:

Ramping issue: Doing something strange

I have tried using the ramping feature many times but it does something strange that I do not know how to correct. When I turn on ramping it will raise the spindle/router about 1" above the workpiece after every pass/layer it cuts. So if I am cutting out a bunch of pockets that takes say 10 passes/layers per pocket, the spindle will raise up and back down 10 times for each pocket. A perfect example of how annoying this can be. I just ran a job today that had 96 pockets. That is a crazy amount o…

Ramping Pocket ToolPath Curiosity When Z-Zero Is Stock Bottom

You’re not the first one to notice this issue. I’ve been told it’s on their radar, but I’d still file a bug report to bring more attention to it.

Strange toolpathing during rest machining

So I’ll fully admit that this might be a total user issue as I’m just getting back to the software after letting things sit for a while due to life getting in the way, but I’m seeing strange toolpathing on a rest machining operation. I am pocketing out a bunch of hexagons from a 1/2" thick piece of material, first with a 1/4" bit and then ideally using an 1/8" rest machine operation, but when I run the gcode generation it produces an enormously long toolpath (over 1400 minutes). Upon closer ins…

[robgrz (Rob Grzesek (Carbide 3D))]

We found it. The fix will be in the next release.

[Chaotica (Joel McKenzie)]

Nice! Go team Carbide3D!

Want another one?

There seems to be a UI bug in the Modeling panel - in that same file when I was trying to make changes to the 3D model(deleting & re-creating features) & I tried to re-order the modeling list. The feature I was trying to drag up higher in the list just dissappeared, but it was still being rendered in the 3D view.
Possibly also somehow deleted a feature in the list(not the same one I was dragging) - I’m not sure about that one cause it may have been related to changing the stock thickness setting. In any case, I had a feature(the first one actually) which seemed to get removed which I’m pretty sure I didn’t tell it to delete.

[robgrz (Rob Grzesek (Carbide 3D))]

I think I’ve seen that reported, but we’re holding off on digging into that part of the code until we figure out some other Create Pro changes we’d like to make.

[CullenS (Cullen Simpson)]

I saw the same behavior in the toolpath tab when trying to drag a toolpath above the top one in the list. I figured I did something stupid as usual. I am careful not to make sure that I see the little horizontal line appear now.

[robgrz (Rob Grzesek (Carbide 3D))]

Actually, the toolpath and the model views will be fixed in the next release.

[robgrz (Rob Grzesek (Carbide 3D))]

764 is up at Carbide Create Beta Downloads

• (FIX) Remove the big selection box artifact when the mouse is initially pressed.
• (FIX) Fix the ramping bug in the pocket toolpath if the zero is on the bottom of the stock.
• (FIX) Don’t allow a toolpath to be dragged outside of the toolpath list.
• (FIX) Don’t allow a 3d element to be dragged outside of the model list.

[robgrz (Rob Grzesek (Carbide 3D))]

These releases are looking good in our internal testing, and we haven’t seen any crash reports. We’d like to move 764 to the main download page, but I wanted to check in here and see if these releases have been working well for everyone.

All good?

(I’ll assume that a “like” on this post means, “Working well for me”)

[woodworm (Kevin Dorsey-Tyler)]

All good so far here - but my needs are generally pretty simple. The relatively few more complicated 3D things end up getting done via Alibre Workshop.

[CullenS (Cullen Simpson)]

Any thoughts on this:

Pocket toolpath still slotting

I was able to duplicate this in 764: [image] We’ll see what the devs think.

And the associated thread I had? Mine was in 757 but the tread above indicates it is still an issue in 764.

[robgrz (Rob Grzesek (Carbide 3D))]

That’s a deeper change, with the potential to break things so we’ll look at that after the current changes are complete.

[Chaotica (Joel McKenzie)]

Been using v764 for a bit this past weekend & it seemed to be quite solid.

[Ed.E (Ed)]

I had a few instances where the Send to Motion button did not appear and had to load the .c2d in CM. Other than that, works great.

macOS Monterey 12.7
CC 764 Beta
CM 622 Beta

[moderndaywanderlust (John Byer)]

Same for me, same CC, CM, and macOS specs too.

[robgrz (Rob Grzesek (Carbide 3D))]

Thanks everyone who chimed in on this release. We just moved it to the main download page so I’ll close this thread now.