Chips stuck in the cut

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Are you cutting slots just as narrow as the endmill?

Best practice is to cut as a pocket down to at least tab depth:

Adding geometry to cut as a pocket with a finishing pass

One technique which is often suggested to avoid slotting is to add geometry around a part which one wishes to cut out and cut as a pocket down to tab depth — here’s one technique for that. In this case, the project is a bevel gauge which will be cut out of 0.0625" (~1.5mm) thick aluminum: [bevelgauge] Due to the narrowness of the angles, an 0.03125" endmill has to be used, so after importing and scaling the file (we will be cutting out one which is 3") we select the perimeter and offset it tw…

and I’ve found that while a narrow slot will pack with MDF debris, a wider one will allow dust collection to pull things out more efficiently, avoiding that problem.