Setting Roughing & Detail Passes

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

This is known as “rest machining”. Carbide Create doesn’t support it (MeshCAM does).

You can manually offset things so as to set up appropriate toolpaths if desired.

Carving same design with different bits

This is known as “rest” machining. At this time, Carbide Create does not support this feature — one can do it manually by insetting by the endmill diameter, then outsetting by the diameter: [image] resulting in: [image] resulting in: [image] Draw in geometry which defines the area you wish to work with and duplicate the original: [image] drag the original back into alignment and select it and the drawn in geometry and do a Boolean intersection: [image] [image] then select the o…