Largest Cut On Pro

[DanD (Dan DiCesaro)]

I have the 3 Pro and bed of 40x40. Does anyone know the largest size I can cut?

Thanks!

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

The working area is ~33" x 33" — but note that includes the “overhang cutting area” at the front of the machine — making a fully supported spoilboard will resolve that.

For larger projects (along the Y-axis), there is tiling:

Toolpath Tiling in Carbide Create Pro

We just uploaded CC 752 to: Carbide Create Beta Downloads which added Toolpath Tiling. It will only be active for Create Pro users. Normally, this would be an internal build for a while but we think this will be fairly stable in spite of the fact that there were a lot of internal changes to get it working. Tiling is enabled on the Toolpath pane The help button links to nowhere right now. We only support indexing on the Y axis since we cannot think of a commercial machine that would need inde…

if you don’t have Pro, see:

Tiling questions/issues

Okay, let’s imagine I want to cut out a 14" tall letter “J” on my Nomad: [image] I would start by drawing an 8" or so square which defines where there overlap is going to be: [image] I would draw in some holes for registration pins: [image] I would then duplicate and drag the registration pins and square to define the balance of what needs to be cut: [image] Then I would adjust the part I want to cut out so that it’s better placed and offset it by a bit more than the diameter of the …

For larger than that, use dovetails or some other mechanism to join sub-assemblies into larger parts.

[DanD (Dan DiCesaro)]

Thank you! I really appreciate it.