Use tiling on oversize projects

[mengelke (Milt Engelke)]

I am doing carved signs measuring 20 x 42 so looking for support on tiling and indexing sections

[gdon_2003 (Guy Donham)]

I recently did my first tiling job. It came out perfect. I wrote about it and it is attached.

CarbideCreate_Tiling.pdf (1.5 MB)

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

See:

Toolpath Tiling in Carbide Create Pro

We just uploaded CC 752 to: Carbide Create Beta Downloads which added Toolpath Tiling. It will only be active for Create Pro users. Normally, this would be an internal build for a while but we think this will be fairly stable in spite of the fact that there were a lot of internal changes to get it working. Tiling is enabled on the Toolpath pane The help button links to nowhere right now. We only support indexing on the Y axis since we cannot think of a commercial machine that would need inde…

and

A Massive 3D Carving with a Purpose - Can you CNC Router a Door?

Tiling on Your CNC Router

Creating Custom Cabinetry with CNC Router - A Cabinet Build

[Tod1d (Tod (with 1 'd'))]

Keep in mind you can do tiling without the tiling feature. The Tiling Feature splits the job in a straight line across the tile height. Some jobs work better if you do them in 2 separate pieces so you can choose what gets cut in each tile.

[CullenS (Cullen Simpson)]

You could also practice with a small piece of wood and just set your tile height to half the distance.

Then you can work on your process without wasting as much wood and time.