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Paneling help
First time using Paneling Toolpaths. I have a project that is 5.5" wide x 60" high. Trying to see how I can flip my wood around rather than pushing the wood through the machine. I am limited in space in my workshop behind my machine (it is in an enclosure). Hope that makes sense.
This is how I am thinking I would want the start points to be:
Panel 2: x = 0, y = 30
Panel 1: x = 5.5, y = 30
See attached.
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https://learn.carveco.com/toolpaths-and-machining/maker-plus-machining-features/panel-tiling-toolpaths/
I know I am not giving you a direct answer but Leighton did an excellent video dealing with the paneling toolpaths, give it a watch.
mike
Me, If I had some material that was too big for my machine I would do it a different way.
Especially the way you were saying you wanted to do it, not having to glue the thing together, I haven't had to look at the "Paneling" in the toolpath yet, I would scribe a line drill 2 holes for indexing, I would clamp it to the same index point in "Y" or "X" the holes are there for indexing so I could make sure everything matched. I would use the center of the material instead of any corner.
By the way you don't have to bore holes just get a dowel cut in 1/2 glue it so you have some kind of precision in indexing the thing.
If you can lay it out in carveco you could cut it.
mike
Apparently, I wasn't much help.
Well here's another shot, I was reminded of a job I did a few years ago, this is how I did it,(with different words and such). Remember always to push to clamp material down to the table off the same point (I did by indexing off the edge closes to the holes I used the holes 1/4" for the other part of indexing The toolpathing was real good after noticing that my lettering would (could be) screwed up I moved the nodes so the milling inside vector (would put all the lettering inside the vectors I was using for the toolpathing) could work better, If you have any need for clarification please ask, if this helps please state it, I do believe you could use this fashion to mill one part the run the other part the way you wish you would just need to run the toolpath on the other part so it would.
mike
Actually this was helpful. Thank you. Everyone has their own methods. Love seeing other ideas.
I decided to duplicate my Carveco Model files. On the second file, I flipped the model around. Left side from one file and right side for other. Haven't ran the job yet. Might take your advice on setting zero to the center. Thanks!
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