I just posted a Fusion 360 version of Morgan’s wasteboard on the Facebook group. I didn’t want to duplicate it here. The CAD portion is done and most of the toolpathing.
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Thank you so much Ed, that is appreciated by all. Just need to go find it on the FB group now. lol
-Alex
I found the post, thanks again Ed.
For those of you who are not on FB or was not finding it the direct link to his post can be found here. Redirecting...
-Alex
Thanks Alex. I wish we had an easier way of posting and cataloguing here as I am not in favor of a proliferation of forums on the subject.
I’m still open to any Fusion experts giving their opinion on the optimal path to do the work. It seems there are many ‘right’ ways 
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I’m with you 100% Ed, I’m not a fan of the copy/paste myself. This has just been such a hot long running issue I figured it might warrant a re-post. Thank you again for running with this.
For the rest of Fusion Guru’s on the forum, you’re help and insight would be greatly appreciated as Ed mentioned!
-Alex
Hey Ed,
your logic is flawless. Post proprietary formats only in gated internet communities! 
I’m not sure I understand the comment…?
Hey Ed,
you are posting a format that I can’t open in a community that I can’t enter. If that is not really consistent! ← A joke
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Aaah! Got it. Sorry, I was not expecting humoUr from a German ;-*
Joking aside, I can cut and paste from facebook here. I keep forgetting that some government agencies and corporations do not allow it to be used on their machines. I have to say, I feel bittersweet about the Facebook platform as I have a strong dislike for the people that started it.
I’ve posted an image of the CAD file here and once it’s complete I will also place it in this forum.
If you’re wondering about my Facebook comment. I live in Cambridge, MA and the facebook founders all attended school here. Zuckerberg and the Winklevoss twins all had a reputation here from those who interacted with them. I think this video clip from Larry Summers (then President of Harvard and no small Ego himself) is a good insight into my opinions It’s an amusing clip
Hey Ed,
Strange expectation. Probably from 80-year-old prejudices. In a direct comparison between german and U.S. forums, the germans make jokes all the time, whereas U.S. people often are much to polite to risk jokes.
Here a typical german youtube video. See if you find a joke 
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That is a seriously funny video! Love it
Aiphu,
My understanding of German humoUr has been honed keenly after many two weekly trips to, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Munich, Dresden and Berlin before flying home. Through a series of carefully constructed experiments I have deduced that mainland European humoUr is best appreciated after drinking.
I thought I was alone in deducing this, but apparently not…
*" Germans continue to drink a bathtub’s worth of beer, wine and spirits per year"
I am looking forward to returning so I can continue the experiment
;-*
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I am preparing the file in various formats for upload
Fusion
STEP
DXF
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Just wondering can you post it in a vcarve version for elite foreman?
I don’t own it. but I believe you shoudl be able to import the STEP file as that is a pretty common/universal format
Dan please read the whole thread, the vcarve are the original ones posted in the first mention.
-Alex
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Hey Ed,
[OT] I have never been in those places and I don’t drink alcohol.
But you can never know a people with trips that short. You may be led to tourist attractions, but not to places where to learn to know how people are.
I come from the North. People in Northern Germany differ extremely from Germans in the center and in the south. This even applies to North Germans from Eastern Germany. The North Germans don’t speak too much. Some south-western Germans call them “Fischköppe” referring to the fact that northern Germany is the only region that has contact with the sea (more precisely, with two seas). Many Northern Germans can’t even understand the Southern Germans, as some southern indigenuous speak as if they had a knot in their tongue. There is a line called “Benrather Linie” that separates North and the rest. The North is the region where still Low German is spoken. This is not a dialect, but another germanic language, the ancient lingua franca of the Hanse. When North Germans speak High German, they speak it dialect-free (and they are the only ones in Germany).
Germany is a country that consisted of hundreds of reigns and territories and unified to a single nation only in late 19th century, and it became a nation without Austria then, because Bismarck knew that there could be not two of such powerful members as Prussia and Austria together in a national union. There was a Holy Roman Empire of German Nation before though, which persisted until 1804 when Napoleon led himself be proclaimed and crowned an Emperor and occupied large parts of Europe including Austria and didn’t tolerate another Emperor beside him in Europe, so forced Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor to resign as Emperor of the Holy Empire by allowing him to remain the Emperor of Austria. Joseph Haydn, composer of the music (not the lyrics) of the German national anthem, described how the french cannonballs hit Vienna before he died. At the end, this music was the only one he played in his house, which originally was composed to be the hymn of the House of Austria and had the lyrics “God save Francis the Emperor” but today has the lyrics written by Hoffmann von Fallersleben “Unity and Right and Freedom for the German Fatherland” which was used in the German Democratic Revolution of 1848 (which failed).
But I can confirm that the germans, both northern and southern, when they are among other germans, they joke all the time. They make jokes with people they don’t know just because a situation is funny. On the street, on the ferry, everywhere. And at work, especially if you’re a craftsman under craftsmen.
You may already have heard that Europeans are much more direct. When a German lives in the USA for a certain time, it usually reports: “First it’s so pleasant, all are polite, everybody wants to help, everybody is your friend.” But after a year when they come back they report: “Ah! It’s so good to be back where everybody tells me the truth, e.g. that I’m an idiot. That feels so good!”
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I will preface this by saying I am new to CNCs and it is likely I messed something up, but I experienced an issue using these plans.
I used the Carveco plans for the dovetail wasteboard and everything worked great until the last toolpath. Instead of moving and cutting to the last path with the dovetail bit in the groove, the machine down cut incrementally and made a 1/2" slot instead of a tapered 1/4" upper to 1/2" dovetail lower potion of the slot with four passes on each grove. I simulated the toolpath in Carveco and was able to replicate the problem. It seems to me in the dovetail (Matchfit bit) tool path the starting depth should be 0.375" instead of 0.0" for the desired final path. I edited the path and ran both the original and the toolpath with a starting depth of 0.375" and it seemed to run correctly.
If anyone has input on this, please let me know. I am just wondering if I screwed something up somehow when running it originally or if anyone else had this issue.
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Hey all, I think I’m going to give this a try. Love the price of the gear (especially compared to other clamping solutions…). However, I still don’t see the Fusion 360 version actually posted anywhere. I’m getting “not found” on the links. Am I missing something? @MorganHop @cymro99
Also, I’m going to give the combo plywood/MDF solution a try. But if I attach it to the QCW, will I be losing 3/4" Z travel? Also, how did you attach the top layer wasteboard to the QCW?
Thanks!
Jim,
Fair disclosure. I did not use the dovetail track and stopped at the 20mm holes.
The reason, if you surface the board repeatedly (which you will…it’s a ‘spoilboard’ then the dovetail tracks at some point won’t work. The 20mm holes will always work and there are hold-down designs that also work in those. Printable versions can be found on the various CAD sites (they have a bolt in the bottom and the ‘peg’ is sliced and splays out when the bolt is tightened.
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