Surfacing the Wasteboard (QCW Secure from Beneath - Woodworker X50)

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Hey Gregory,

the manufacturer suggests this method:

• How To Position A Wasteboard Inside The Cutting Area on the Onefinity CNC
• Flattening A Wasteboard On the Onefinity CNC

It uses a method where you first find the middle of your workarea and then set workpiece zero manually on the middle of the workpiece. But many people don’t like to do this this way, they prefer to do it by using the front left corner of the workarea as the workpiece zero. In this case, you should know where the Cutting area location is.

If you go with the workpiece zero on top left front corner, in this case you might be interested to take care of this.

Also…

@Aiph5u

usually on the Onefinity machines you don’t have to subtract the bit radius when entering the area to surface. If you want to avoid lips and corners, simply enter the entire max. workarea of the machine. When you look at the cutting area location , you see that there is plenty space around the workarea for the additional bit radius so it won’t damage anything outside the workarea.

Also you have to know that you cannot probe XYZ with a surfacing bit. But you can use the method explained in the video instead:

@Aiph5u

Bits compatible with XYZ Probing
Video

Be sure that before you flatten your wasteboard that your machine is checked for rectangularity and coplanarity, because if it is twisted or a parallelogram, flattening the worksurface will not help.

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