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

For doing that in Carbide Create see:

How to make an Undercut

Yes. This was recently discussed here, and I worked up a solution … here, from a PM: Draw a circle of the desired diameter: [image] Draw a circle of the diameter which the threadmill will cut: [image] and which shows the diameter of the shaft: [image] Duplicate and reduce the diameter of the original circle by the shaft diameter, plus a bit of clearance (assuming one wants to cut the groove as deeply as possible) [image] [image] Reposition the tool proxy to get an idea of what th…

Note that one does not get an accurate preview using Carbide Create