Hogging out first then detail work

[scottf725 (Scott)]

Is there a standard process for hogging out material with 1/4" bit around lettering and then coming back with detail with a 1/8" bit? Obviously, I could just run a duplicate tool path, but that seems like a waste of time.

[mhotchin (Michael Hotchin)]

You are describing ‘rest machining’. It is a feature available in CC PRO.

For the free version of CC, you can do the ‘pocket then contour’ trick:

1/4 to 1/8 pocket

What you are describing is called ‘rest machining’, and is available in CC PRO. A trick that works in the free version is the ‘pocket / contour’ trick. Like rest machining, you use progressively smaller mills, but there is a limitation - at each step, the next smaller mill must be at least half the diameter of the previous. So, you can go from 1/4" to 1/8", but not 1/4" to 1/16" inch. To get as small as 1/16", you need three steps - 1/4", 1/8", then 1/16". With real rest machining, you woul…

[scottf725 (Scott)]

Thank you so much! That looks like it will work perfectly.