Is there a way to miter-fold with with thicker material?
Hi all,
I'm trying to create a series of miter-folded parts with 1/2" or 3/4" plywood, and I am having a hard time doing it.
I can do it with a profile toolpath as long as the stock is thinner than the depth of the blade of the Vbit, but if I use thicker wood, I get a V groove at the bottom and straight walls up top.
I've tried creating rectangles and v-bit toolpath, but then if the paths intersect I get either vector intersection errors or if I remove those intersections, open vector errors.
Is there something that I'm missing? It seems there ought to be a toolpath for this that worked like a profile toolpath, but automatically calculated the width of the groove by the angle of tool and depth of cut, allowed you to create a narrow stepover at the bottom of the V to create a glue gap, and where you could select the depth of hinge that was leftover...
Currently the only thing I can do is deep carve a single rectangle at a time and have to manually program all the widths and depths... or is this a problem with Carveco Maker that is solved in higher versions of the program?
Anyone got a solution for this?
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Hi Carl Heaman-Warne,
Creating a Profiling toolpath which machines along a line drawn outside of the box shape should meet your requirements, as we would expect this to result in a sharp edge. If you choose to create a Profiling toolpath, please ensure that the Along and Selected Vectors options are selected, and then adjust the Stepdown accordingly. You should not need to adjust the Stepover, unless your chosen tool has a wide groove which is larger than your chosen V-bit.
Thanks for your time and consideration.
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