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Simple sign tile
Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a 600 x 600mm cnc router and want to make a sign that is 1000mm x 250mm x 25mm in Maker Plus. It appears simple in Easel but I would like to stay with using my Carveco product. I have looked everywhere in the topics and lessons to do this but have been unable to find anything except for a very complicated breaking up into sheets tutorial. Is there a way that this can be simply done like in easel splitting into two parts that line up after stopping and moving the work piece?
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Hi Carey Silk,
You would need to use the Panel Toolpaths tool in Carveco Maker+ to divide your calculated toolpaths according to the size of your machine bed.
Please watch the following demonstration video available from our Carveco Training portal: Panel/Tiling Toolpaths
Thanks for your time and consideration.
Hi Carey. Could you post a link to the tutorial you are referring to in Easel please? I'd like to see it. This is something on my list of tutorials to do, but I've just have not had a chance to do it yet.
Personally, I would do it using dowels and location holes. I did the exact same thing for a Carveco logo for a trace show, with exactly the same sort of sizes as yours.
I'd start off with something like this for the design:
Drill the four holes. You can either do this into your spoilboard (if you are not too fussed about it), or have another piece of sacrificial board underneath. Remember to go deeper than the material you are machining so you can put dowels into the spoilboard or sacrificial board:
Then you can start with the sign. So, I'm going to machine one part of it that my machine can get to, the "LARGE" part. I'm doing an Area Clearance:
Machine it. Now time to move the job down on the machine. Move it down so the upper holes match up with the lower holes and place dowels in there so you are in the exact place.
To move down in the software, select everything, except the bottom two holes:
Snap to the centre of one of the selected circles (the cursor will turn into a circle crosshair with a dot inside it) and then move the circle down onto the snap point of the same circle in Y at the bottom (hard to explain in text); here is a picture:
This should then be in the correct place in relation to the overall design. I can then do another Area Clearand on the "SIGN" part and machine it:
Any problems just let me know ;)
Thanks Leighton I will try and get my head around your method. See the attached link I was looking at for the Easel tutorial.
How to do Tiling Using the Easel Pro Tiling Feature and the XCarve - YouTube
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