How to use more tools for the same pocket

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

If you have a BitSetter it would be one job using two different tools.

There’s a bit of discussion at:

Toolpaths

and see:

Carving same design with different bits

This is known as “rest” machining. At this time, Carbide Create does not support this feature — one can do it manually by insetting by the endmill diameter, then outsetting by the diameter: [image] resulting in: [image] resulting in: [image] Draw in geometry which defines the area you wish to work with and duplicate the original: [image] drag the original back into alignment and select it and the drawn in geometry and do a Boolean intersection: [image] [image] then select the o…

If you have a BitSetter you could instead use Advanced V carving which does something similar.