Tool Diameter Offsets or Better Method for Making Inlays

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4 years 1 month ago #251619 by Bumbino
So I worked at this somewhere around 12 hours yesterday ending around 3:30am today. As it turns out much of my struggle was with a poor design in fusion. After getting that ironed out it only took a few attempts and logging results to get a killer fit. I'm still trying to understand just what's happening when using crc at the mill, but for now at least i can make it work.

This is a square pocket with an island, then a square donut. I could press them all the way together but would never get them apart. So today it's back to the mission of inlaying a mahogany heart in an oak box lid.

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4 years 1 month ago #251667 by pippin88
If you use an angled bit (like 15 degrees) for the walls of the pocket and the insert it will be more forgiving for size errors when doing inlays
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4 years 1 month ago #252200 by andypugh
I think part of the problem might have been using a GRBL post, and I don't think that GRBL supports the G41 / G42 codes:
linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/gcode/g-code.html#gcode:g41-g42

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3 years 5 months ago #270896 by testriderchuck
I think you're correct on the G41/G42 and grbl.my ProVer 4030 did weird things until I told QCAD/CAM to use the GRBL thing.

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