I need to make some nice longitudinal joints. There is a set out there of DXF files, look nice:
Obviously they can be cut:
Just I can’t. I use QCAD, and there are double lines, open paths, and whenever I try to import one if those to CC I cannot define proper cut lines.
Any help?
Would be happy if I could get help with this here:
straight3.DXF (104.6 KB)
TY!
Opening that file in LibreCAD we see:
exporting as an SVG it then opens as:
Presumably we want one negative and one positive on each side so that this can be cut to two levels — assuming that the lengths are symmetrical the easiest way to do this is to make one of each side:
which we are then able to close:
Join Vectors
Yes
then duplicate:
and then mirror:
If we then select the lower portions:
we can then offset them by tool diameter plus 10%:
which will then allow cutting to half the Stock Thickness with the upper half:
and then the remaining distance with the lower geometry:
I’ve been looking into joinery a bit at:
esp. see:
If you have some parts which you would like to connect we will gladly look into this with you.
William, thanks a lot! There is more in your comments than just showing a solution: I -at least- always learn another kind of thinking with your posts, and even more: to dare to come from another end to solve a question. (so whenever you or one of you people there happen to enjoy the racing season in Saratoga Springs, or the skiing season in Lake Placid/Lake George/Glens Falls: there is always a hot coffee and a piece of apple strudel waiting…)
Now the issue with cutting the first round to the whole depth in a pocket appears to be still the same, bit was stuck, CC V8.02. Updated to V8.12, same in simulation. Later I clicked “rest machining” (new in 8.12?), and now the bit in the simulation runs back and forth. Is this the reliable solution for that problem, or accidental?
Glad to be able to help!
Upload your file to the beta thread and some screen grabs showing what you are seeing and we will do our best to look into it with you.
It might be a flaw of the design I used from Winterdienst’s website (Michael Winter), so I will re-invent it, and we will see.
The setting defining the pocket as Rest Machining obviously is available in the CC Pro, I saw that on my desktop laptop, on the shop laptop I just have the free CC, also updated to V8.12, and the free one does not offer that setup, therefore the alternating cutting direction for pockets probably is available in the Pro version. However it -the Rest Machining- only gets the alternating directions in long narrow cuts, with larger areas it indeed cuts the rest, assuming, some was cut already, so that setting does not cut the whole area.
Never stop learning…
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