New CNC setup for a new guy to CNC

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

Rotate it 90 degrees and use 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…

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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 …