Woodruff cutter for side grooves

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

We can’t speak to tooling which we don’t sell.

Lots of folks use unsupported tooling — I do myself:

Using unsupported tooling in Carbide Create: Roundover / Cove / Radius bits

These are usually used in routers for decorative effects in wood: but they are potentially useful for joinery: They are also useful for rounding off parts to allow rotary motion as for a hinged lid. Unfortunately, Carbide Create does not support this endmill geometry — but using the new support for previewing a V endmill when used in a No Offset Contour toolpath, it should be possible to preview them w/ confidence by stacking a series of V endmill cuts.

but it has to be done using good practices, and suitable safety considerations, and w/in the physical limits of the machine.

If the cutter has a cutting diameter of 1/8" or less, it should be okay to use in harder materials — if the cutting geometry is suited to cutting such materials at the feeds and speeds and torque which the Nomad can apply.

For a bit on calculating these see:

Feeds & speeds