More control over tool path?

[rpbp58 (robert pellegrino)]

Is there a way to modify a toolpath in Carbide Create? I am flattening a piece of black locust and I want to cut only with the grain of the slab. I use a pocket toolpath which wants to do a spiral around the slab. This leaves a nice finish with the grain, but awful tool marks in the sections that go across the grain.

Is there a way to force it to do a raster pattern instead? BTW, I’m using a #201 because the cheap 1" fly cutter I bought was leaving burn marks, even at 10,000 rpm.

[fenrus (Arjan van de Ven)]

in the pro version there’s an engrave toolpath that lets you do this…

it’s slightly quirky on the sides but I’ve used this to surface aluminum to get the best finish

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

The only way to control this in Carbide Create is to draw the geometry in:

duplicate it and join it and edit as necessary:

then manually assign a toolpath:

surface_slat_pro_xxl_origin_front_left_0_001mm.c2d (12.2 KB)