Wasteboard grid lines

I am having difficulty trying to get gridlines for my wasteboard. I used polyline on 2 inch square first vertical and then horizontal returning to the point of origin. When I try to do the tool path for vee bit, I get blue diagonal lines and the tool paths are diagonal. The drawings are vertical and horizontal, but the tool paths are diagonal. What am I doing wrong?

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Huh…can you put up some screenshots?

UPDATE: Thanks. Yes…use a contour toolpath. You can still use the vbit if you experiment with the depth of cut.

A vee bit toolpath cuts in between lines or interior of shapes. My guess is you made a square using the poly lines and it is doing a vcut of each individual square. If you preview the toolpath does it look like half the squares are being cut? I would use a contour toolpath if you want lines cut.

Thanks for the help, the contour toolpath works.

Should you really want to use the V-bit the lines have to be really thin rectangles. I was shown this a way back by Will.

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