I’m hoping in the near future a “Raster” feature will be added to CC. I find the pocket feature of starting the level in the center of a rectangle cuts across the wood grain. A raster feature would allow the cut to start from the bottom of the stock and work left and right to the top of the stock material.
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Other programs have it, hopefully they’ll add it eventually. I use raster for spoilboard surfacing and slab surfacings (Vcarve).
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This has been discussed and although not a toolpath people simply draw up an S shape going up the material and then do a no offset contour and the router follows the snake up the board going back and forth. It is I guess the poor man’s raster.
I did not spend a lot of time but you would space the lines apart for the surfacing bit to overlap similar to step over.
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If you have Carbide Create Pro, the Engrave toolpath can be used for this:
Or, as noted, such toolpaths are quickly drawn up using the polyline tool:
and if covering large areas, replicated using the Linear Array feature:
OK
Joined together using “Join Vectors”
Yes
and then adjusted at need using Node Edit:
“D” (for delete)
Assing a Contour toolpath w/ No Offset:
Thank you everyone for the response. I think everyone would agree that an option of selecting a “Raster” would be much better than taking the time to build a Raster Maze. After all, Carbide Create is a great program and an addition like this would only make it better.
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Yeah, I JUST fried my router trying to plane a project. It went back to the starting position for the second pass, plunged in and it bound up. It went up in smoke before I could do anything. Frustrating. Will try the other method… once I order a new router.
OUCH! Sorry to hear that. Because of issues like that, I usually reduce my first plunge down around 30% or less until I feel confident Carbide Motion is acting like intended.
I’m still learning. I had used the bit on the spoil board previously and I didn’t think to change the depth, so I’m pretty sure that’s what did it. Expensive lesson.
If it was a Carbide 3D router and you were w/in your initial warranty period, let us know and we’ll work that out.
I always check using the Rapid Position command for Z+6mm (jogging off to the side of the stock if need be).
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I’ve had my Shapeoko XXL for 15 months or so I think, so outside the warranty. Plus, I’m sure it was user error, so I’ve ordered another router from you guys. Thanks!
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