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This can extremely speed up jobs with lots of milled holes and pockets.

For me this would be a real killer feature

Thank you in advance for your effort!

Cheers,

Markus

I have another Idea - not sure if it makes sense :) If a checkbox with "don't lift" is ticked, then the tool path changes in that way, that the tool goes back to it's starting point inside the pocket first. Similiar like it goes for milling = it passes around islands in case they exist. An...

ok, that's of course a reason. But what about adding this with a "use at own risk"-checkbox? I would be really useful when milling a lot of holes... In some of my jobs it's around 500 per job... I can remove this lift manually from gcode, but need to redo this after each e.g. setting chang...

Hello Les, I just installed the current DEv release and gave it a try - this looks great in the simulation. I'll give it a try on a piece of wood later the day. Just wonderful - thank you very much! I have another question please: I have a mill job with lot of pockets with multiple passes to final d...

Les Newell wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 5:35 pm It will hopefully be in the next dev release.

Looking at the change log of 7.1.15, I assume I need to wait for the next release?

Cheers,

Markus

To be honest... I did not think about that Sheetcam is 2 1/2D only when asking. The idea was to mill pens, but not "simply round" but with e.g. patterns - but this would require a 3D CAM and a Step File, I assume.

Hello Les,

another question: is it planned to add a 4th A-Axis to Sheetcam in future? Or a wrapper Plugin?

Cheers,

Markus

This would be phantasic - thank you very much for your effort!

Hello Les,

it would be great if you can put this on the list - or may be you already have?

Cheers,

Markus

hmm... but that way, I still need to make sure that the letters are not to massive as then even the smaller bit will go too deep into the material in one step. It is a workaround, but not a solid solution for production :( I already wrote: "I can work around it a bit by having multiple V-Care T...

Hello Les, I just udpated to the latest 7.0.10 and had the hope that this is now fixed - but looking at the simulation it does not look like :( Having a bigger v-Carve bit (90°, D=40mm) and larger text, it partly goes way to deep into the material in one cut. A parameter for Offset would also be coo...

Hello Les, I am having may be the same question like jakala. If I set up the V-Carving bit I can give a "depth per pass" value. (I do not mean the Maximum Depth given for the V-Carving Task) I have a bigger v-bit with a cutter length of 26mm - no matter if save "depth per pass" w...