CNC Router Bits

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

For Carbide Create, tooling needs to be able to plunge/center-cut.

Endmills are 4x as good at cutting horizontally as they are plunge-cutting though.

Router bits can be used so long as they:

• are capable of plunge cutting
• don’t have bearings
• are used at feeds and speeds suited to their geometry and the dust collection’s ability to clear chips
• are used w/ toolpaths suited to their geometry

For one discussion see:

Using unsupported tooling in Carbide Create: Roundover / Cove / Radius bits

These are usually used in routers for decorative effects in wood: but they are potentially useful for joinery: They are also useful for rounding off parts to allow rotary motion as for a hinged lid. Unfortunately, Carbide Create does not support this endmill geometry — but using the new support for previewing a V endmill when used in a No Offset Contour toolpath, it should be possible to preview them w/ confidence by stacking a series of V endmill cuts.