SO3 XXL - A noob requesting help with sheet metal cutting

Probably the easiest thing to do here would be to export an STL from SketchUp and then do the CAM using MeshCAM (but that’s an additional purchase for a Shapeoko).

In order to get tabs from Carbide Create you would need to draw them in, then do Boolean operations (along w/ suitable duplications) to get areas which you could cut as pockets leaving the tabs in place. Sort of like this:

Recent discussion of this sort of thing:

If you still have trouble with this, feel free to post the .c2d file and I’d be glad to work up step-by-step instructions.

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