# Trying to surface waste board - using bad words (solved)

**URL:** <https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/t/trying-to-surface-waste-board-using-bad-words-solved/38800>\
**Category:** Gen 2 Elite Series\
**Created:** [May 25, 2026, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/t/trying-to-surface-waste-board-using-bad-words-solved/38800 "2026-05-25T19:20:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![dwhite1031](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.onefinitycnc.com/dwhite1031/32/35544_2.png) [@dwhite1031](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/u/dwhite1031)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/t/trying-to-surface-waste-board-using-bad-words-solved/38800/1 "2026-05-25T19:20:15Z")

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Spent all day messing with this on my new Gen-2 WW and I’m losing my religion in a hurry…

I guess its because I used gSender on a PC for my former CNC and the HMI is new to me, surfacing that waste board was easy…

But I’m having more heck than a kid on the wrong school bus trying to surface my waste board.

I’m using VCarve Pro 12 to create a pocket toolpath that’s X=32" and Y=31"

That should be within the 32x32 limits of the WW but I keep getting these errors.

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**Author:** ![TommyObar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TommyObar](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/u/TommyObar)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/t/trying-to-surface-waste-board-using-bad-words-solved/38800/2 "2026-05-25T20:52:18Z")

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Is your work 0,0 set to the machine home (0,0)?

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**Author:** ![dwhite1031](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.onefinitycnc.com/dwhite1031/32/35544_2.png) [@dwhite1031](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/u/dwhite1031)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/t/trying-to-surface-waste-board-using-bad-words-solved/38800/3 "2026-05-25T21:17:33Z")

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**Author:** ![TommyObar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TommyObar](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/u/TommyObar)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/t/trying-to-surface-waste-board-using-bad-words-solved/38800/4 "2026-05-25T21:39:24Z")

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I’m not familiar with that controller, but if I read the screen correctly, the machine is physically at Y=2.355 and your work position is at Y=0. When your toolpath tries to go to Y=31, that would be 33.355 on the machine (out of bounds). Home your machine, then manually zero out X and Y, so 0,0 is the machine 0,0.

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**Author:** ![dwhite1031](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.onefinitycnc.com/dwhite1031/32/35544_2.png) [@dwhite1031](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/u/dwhite1031)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2026, 1:29am UTC](https://forum.onefinitycnc.com/t/trying-to-surface-waste-board-using-bad-words-solved/38800/5 "2026-05-26T01:29:22Z")

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Got it! Successful waste board surfacing! Thanks folks for all of the help! 😎