WillAdams
(William Adams (Carbide 3D))
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I tried to talk someone through manually programming this by editing G-code at:
I actually use a cut like to that as an example in a project I’ve been working on for a while:
and show doing the stepped thing at:
Basically you need a series of lines:
which are set up to match the precision with which you wish to make the cuts, say at the 0.030 inches of the Depth per Pass:
which are cut off at a suitable angle:
using Trim Vectors:
Then, for each line, assign a No Offset Contour toolpath at the desired depth:
repeating until one arrives at:
Then align all the lines:
and position where one wants to make the cut:
(and group)
Positioning at a corner shows:
Attached as a v8 file:
stepped cut_v8.c2d (60 KB)
