I am well on my way to finishing a “test” run of the attached file.
I am running the same file but only carving out the bottom row on a 24 x 5.25 piece of Walnut (1/2 of the bottom row or catchalls).
The first cut is a rough cut of the Pocket for the Catchall with .1 DOC and a .5 stepover.
The Second Cut is a Finish Cut for the Pocket running the same bit but with a .05 Stepover.
We all know it’s challenging to sand the bottom of these pockets, and I want the machine to do as much of the work as possible.
My question is: Is it possible to “merge” the Rough Cutting pass with the Finish Cutting pass?
How the file works now: The machine will be doing 2 “laps” around the machine. IE cutting all the Rough Cuts and then returning to the first pocket to cut the finish pass. Can I enable the machine to do the rough cut and the finish cut on each pocket before it goes to the next pocket?
Also, why is the ART/SYF toolpath showing up in Yellow?
Yellow highlighting for a toolpath indicates an error with it — it may be that there was an error, but it was resolved and the highlighting wasn’t cleared properly — if that is persistent after saving, closing, and re-opening the file, let us know and send it in to us at support@carbide3d.com and we will look into this with you.
If you can get this highlighting to occur consistently for a toolpath which is okay, please let us know step-by-step how that occurs and we will look into it.
No. You would have to program each pocket separately. Rough_1, Finish_1, Rough_2, Finish_2… etc…
However in this case I don’t think you’re losing too much in Rapid time since it’s just a single move between each pocket.
If you ask because you want to see a finished product before doing them all you could have a rough and finish for one tray and then do the rest as a group.
