Forgot plug start depth

[documenta (MARLEEN WALZ)]

Tips? Run again?!

Forgot the 1mm starting depth. Does this mean male/female won’t work?

[gdon_2003 (Guy Donham)]

Starting male inlay below top is vetric method. That makes inlay slightly smaller than pocket but is harder on small bits. Not sure but new versions of inlay mode are doing some magic about making inlay slightly smaller than pocket. The gaps are likely the mechanism to accomplish this. If you make both pocket and inlay same depth and only flip inlay they won’t fit together well. So set gaps and inlay slightly shallower than pocket.

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

Normally Starting Depth is 0 — why would it be something else?

[ScottsdaleSteve (Steve)]

I can’t help you with your current pickle, but I recommend you ditch version 764 and update to the latest for future inlay projects. In v777, they completely changed how inlays work (in a very good way). The new Advanced VCarve looks different now:

Here’s a related thread with my test results:

New inlay feature works great

I finally got around to testing the new inlay update discussed in this thread: Long story short - It worked absolutely great the first time. I shamelessly used the same familiar barista for my test, inlaying end-grain walnut into end-grain hickory: [IMG_6548] I used a new 30° Vee Bit (with a .005" tip) and the “Plug Depth” and “Top Gap” recommendations from @wmoy. My pocket depth was .25". The recommendation is to make the plug depth .5mm (.02") less than the pocket depth, so my plug de…

And here’s the original post announcing the new features:

Inlay Update in Carbide Create

We just posted an update to Carbide Create with a rework of the inlay mode. This is a fundamentally different take on how to make inlays, so inlay toolpaths created with the old code will be reset back to a basic Advanced V-carve in this build. You’ll need to reenable the inlay mode and set the new parameters. You can grab 777 here: Download Carbide Create V7 Here are a few of the test pieces we’ve done with bamboo and walnut (with zero special effort spent in setup or machining): [before…

[documenta (MARLEEN WALZ)]

How to Create Perfect V-Carve Inlays on your CNC

I was just using settings as per the above video.

[documenta (MARLEEN WALZ)]

Ah totally assumed I had the latest version! Updating tmw

[ScottsdaleSteve (Steve)]

@documenta

I was just using settings as per the above video.

That video was created with Carbide Create v777 (which has the new version of Advanced VCarve). I can see how there would issues using the settings from the video with an older version of CC. Hopefully it just works for you now.

[CullenS (Cullen Simpson)]

@WillAdams

Normally Starting Depth is 0

Yes, Vectric has you set the start depth below zero which has always confused me some. I think that in their methodology the start depth for the plug is the same plane as the top surface of the pocket.

I guess if it’s really too deep you could run a pocket clearing operation to get to that depth first.

[documenta (MARLEEN WALZ)]

Thank goodness worked out this time around! Updated the program and will try the new way with next project. Thanks all of you. You are making the maze of CNC navigation-able (is that a word?) for this newbie!