So i need to cut some pieces essentially out of boards, example, lets say you have a 4x8" piece that needs to be cut, so you would use a 7" wide board. However, i would have multiple pieces that need to be cut. So how do i visually lay things out in Carbide Create to make sure i’m putting the pieces where I have an board and not air or clamps etc.
I’m thinking you need to clamp each board individually as opposed to try to sandwich them together as that would be more risky for a board to slip possibly.
i work with a lot of raw lumber that i do the finishing on, but then i don’t want to run one job per board, i’d like to lay out the 3-4 boards i need to cut pieces out of and run a single big job to cut them out of each individual board.
One aspect of this process is known as “generating a cut list” or “nesting”.
One opensource on-line tool for this is:
What you describe is more like ganging up cuts — perhaps if you posted a sample set of boards and a sample set of cuts we could look through them with you and work something out — my initial thought would be to orient 4 boards around a center and cut them secured thus (but at one point in time I had the domain “pinwheeljoinery.com” and was looking to pursue that concept (which I’ve since dropped).
The other thought would just be an array of them lined up along the left edge.
I would set my workpiece to the size of my cutting envelope (spoilboard).
Then draw in a rectangle for each piece of stock (black)
A shape for each object I want to cut out (Red)
And you can even draw in your clamps to make sure you won’t hit them (Green)
I labeled the corners of each piece of stock to aid in placement on the table.
