Toolpath Tiling in Carbide Create Pro

Software Carbide Create
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I thought half in half out originally also…however, that doesn’t work because when you register the piece to the next tile, half of the dimple is going to be in the overlay area and will be recut – so your fence bump out will get cut. The bump out has to be positioned entirely out of the cutting area…so that the fence is preserved.

[EDIT - Because they wouldn’t let me post three things in a row]:
OK…I want to be 100% clear — and I want to be able to stop thinking about this…

Here is the formula I’m recommending that CC should perform to place the dimples:

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The dimple to register Tile 2 (Tile 2 Dimple) is cut when Tile 1 is cut.
The dimple’s bottom-left location is:
Tile 2 “Y”-0, minus the overlap distance, minus the BumpOffset, minus the BumpHeight.

This will position the dimple so that the top of the dimple sits BumpOffset below the bottom of the overlap area.

This leaves the only tricky part to be the measurement of the BumpOffset and BumpHeight, which, if Carbide makes the fence and uses a ZERO POINT as suggested above, will both be standard and known precisely.

OK…I’m done. My brain is fried.

  • Gary
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@robgrz Hey Rob…just wanted to get to this before this thread closes down (today)…The suggestion I made above differs from your original in two critical ways and I want to make sure you’ve at least seen them to consider them:

  1. The fence has the bump out, not the dimple. The dimple is cut into the workpiece…which
  • Eliminates the need to cut a vertical reference surface
  • Eliminates the need to modify the fence for different tile sizes and overlap lengths
  • Eliminates the need to create a registration hole in the workpiece for the first tile to be cut
  1. The fence’s registration shape needs to be located physically below the Project’s Y0
  • This avoids the dimple being cut twice (and therefore cutting into the fence itself)
  • The position of the dimple cut during the cutting of Tile ‘n’ needs to be calculated based on Tile 'n+1’s Y0, less the overlap, less the distance of the fence’s registration shape from Project Y0.

Just making sure you see these (you’ve gone quiet on it)…the examples are in the posts, above.

  • Gary.
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