New Shapeoko user here I’m making a board of the Brazilian flag using different species of wood for inlays.
It seems no matter how hard I try the plug portion never fits correctly, I’ve tried both 90degree and 30 degree for the v carve portion. I’ve followed the tutorials by C3D using the advanced v carve and offset vectors.
Wondering if anyone could provide some insight to what I might be doing wrong?
Upload the file and photos showing how the cuts aren’t working?
Have you tried making a very basic test file?
Which tooling are you using? Usually when this fails it’s because a tapered ball-nose (which is not supported by Carbide Create) is used.
Inlay Test.c2d (608 KB)
I no longer have the file but this is another one im doing if you could just check my work
Is therer anything i should be worrieedd about as far as material selection goes
I normally use an end mill/v- bit for both V Carves
30 DV is the 30 degree V but I have I had to add into the tool patch library as for the top gap I thought there needs to be space to saw the extra material off
I have this same question.
Here’s a good YouTube vid on inlays
