Yes, also very interested in Fusion dxf or svg format files!?
we’ll get him to get those up for you!
Don’t think that would work, as the dovetail would still be wider at the top then it should, be, thinking about this you’re lopping off the top of a pyramid everything below is wider. I think the only thing you can do is go a bit deeper to begin with
I was working on my CNC with a version of this wasteboard that I created and I realised in has one small problem, you can’t clamp at the edge if need be, so I’ve had a thought of trying to create a version of it where some of the pockets for insertion are inset, and have channels going to the outside looking like this:
This way you could also insert clamps to the outside, I’m working out now how to get a toolpath machined that will do the correct thing here, it seems to require a poly line path maybe.
Great tweeks to a great design!
I was able to figure out the toolpaths for this design by the way, you need to draw a line which starts in the middle of the oval pocket that you’ll drop the clamp into and then goes to the left to the edge of the board, then back through the pocket again to the far side of the board, and then back to the middle of the far pocket. Do this once for the horizontal and duplicate the pockets and line up the board, then do the same thing for the up and down duplicating that, and the simulations show it will work just fine. I’ve not yet cut the board to try it out as my spoilboard is still in great shape, but next time the board will be done this way.
I am hoping someone can help. The beginning of my CNC journey has been hurdle after hurdle. I got my new OneFinity Elite Gen 2 Foreman delivered on April 15. Due to some projects around the house it took me a couple weeks to get it set up. I purchased CNC Dovetail Wasteboard Complete files from Etsy, wanted to support Morgan for the time he put into creating them. Loaded them up into Carveco and exported the file paths. Had my mdf cut and ready to go. Loaded the files and zeroed everything then when I run the first file the VBit Test I get a error that my Y is outside range by about 34mm. Come to find out since I purchase the QWC table with the ATC my Y axis capacity is no long a full 48" it is more like 45-3/4. So here I am again at a stopping point. I tried myself to modify your design in Carveco to meet the new reduced size for the QCW with a mounted ATC on the front rail but I am just getting started with Carveco and this is my first CNC and I am not skilled enough in Carveco to make those changes. Has anyone here modified the original toolpaths to fit the reduced size of the wasteboard with the QCW and ATC? Thanks in advance
You wouldn’t happen to have opened it up to see where they added that do you? It would be good to have a user-modifiable option to fix the EMI issue that they have claimed to fix in a bunch of other ways (but didn’t).
I did not open it up, but the prototype with the internal ground did fix the EMI issue for me. I did have to remove the frame to insert the spaces that resolved the Ghost Touch issue.
@Redlinecnc Any chance this will be offered to others with persistent EMI issues, or at least instructions on how to retrofit a similar fix on our machines?
I have if you need it, allowed enough room for ATC and resized it.
Yes, I need to get in on this. It happens all the time and is very annoying.
Has anyone bodged up a Vectric definition for the matchfit bit with the profile in properly? I know it can be done and I think I understand how to do it but figured if someone has already done it maybe they could share.