Carveco V-Carve inlay tutorial 

THIS VIDEO HELPED ME TREMENDOUSLY! MEGA APPRECIATE THIS!

You just changed my life with showing how to reduce the colors and link colors together to simplify and clean it up!

Excellent tutorial! Thank you for taking the time to invest in our learning.

I always enjoy your videos!! Thanks for everything you do for the Carveco community!!

Greatly appreciate the time you put into this process!

Thanks! A great tutorial that doesn’t fry my brain. I like knowing the whys but I’ll save that for another time.

Great tutorial!

Thank you for demystifying the inlay process.

Well done! Thanks a bunch!

Excellent video on v-carving with Carveco. This is definitely going to be the tutorial I use when I try doing this. You've mentioned making a bunch of other videos if people are interested. I'd like to submit my vote for every one of the other videos. Thank you for making this.

Amazing buddy. Going to try my first one this weekend and will make a sample board like you .

Nice tutorial, thanks

superb tutorial, I plan to try this technique in the near future with the story board. I did a inlay in the past and it came out OK, but did have a couple very small gaps that I hope to eliminate. Keep up the great videos, I really appreciate them.

Thanks for your time!! very helpful.

Hi Vernon, I have met and been involved with many professionals but very few have the ability to teach. Everything is easy once you know how so when they instruct, they leave the details out. You, my friend, have a gift. I combed the internet on how to do inlays with Carveco and in every case they leave out a detail or two and I am tired of crashing my machine. With that said, I am sorry to report that I crashed it again following your instruction BUT I am confident I am missing a "detail" simply because your video proved it. I made a 4 piece story board of a simple 1/2" X 2" rectangle. When I set the "Start Depth" at .02" my CNC plunges the 1/8" end mill .02" right into my Test board. I went over and over your video and noted every word. I zoomed right into the toolpaths and everything looks good. After hours of failure I tried in vein, knowing what the outcome would be, by setting the "Start Depth" at .005" .006", .007" and .009" and the max depth to .20" in hopes it might work. Well it did cut them out but as expected, the narrow part of the male was the same size as the top of the female. Sooooo........ I am stuck!! I hope you have a few magic words for the answer.

Thank you! Very thorough.

well buddy, after all the tutorials i watched finally one the really helped me, thank you so much

Thanks Vernon

Thank you. A very clear and easy to follow instructional video. I am off to try it now. 😀

Thanks so much, I couldn't see too much different on the sliced part but I understand what took place.

Vernon, If you click on the "SAVE TOOLPATHS TO SEPARATE FILES" It will do that automatically and you don't have to move your files to the CALCULATED TOOLPATHS side.

Love this video. I've played around slightly and been confused about the male part. I ended up using the exact settings as the female but touching off the z and then lowering .5mm and resetting the z for my male part. This essentially did what you did with the settings without actually knowing how to set the setting haha. Good video.

I just tried your process (really surprised CarveCo doesn't have a V-Carve Inlay process) I got good results. I used a 1/8" 20deg V bit as I didn't have a suitable taper bit. Results 0.05 Great V contact less than 1mm glue space, shoulders meet 0.07 Great V Contact, 1.8mm glue space, 1.9mm shoulder space 0.09 Great V Contact 1.9mm space 2.5mm shoulder space 0.1 Great V contact 0.5mm glue space 2.5 shoulder 0.15Great V contact 1mm glue space, 3.1 shoulder Looks like 0.05 is best all round, 2nd place 0.1mm thank you for the inspiration and confidence to try as my previous attempts only had 1.5 - 2mm V contact & bitty mating with gaps. These fully matched. Well Pleased, thank you

Really good information... To bad its not with vectric... Im gonna use this with vectric and try it thanks brother... Keep it up brother

I spent 6 hours trying to inlay one letter 2” big in CarveCo maker. I’ve been using easel for a while. Trying to learn better software My male pc kept being way small because my brain was stuck in Easel. Thank you so much for this video. When you don’t know how to do something it can get very frustrating. I have a small machine right now but I don’t want to purchase a much larger nicer machine until I have all the software figured out. I figured I could learn on the smaller cheaper one first.

Dam good video, Brother!! Great information!

Vernon, I found this video very informative. Excellent job. The main thing I learned was that I needed to "tram" the spindle very accurately. I've been struggling with inconsistent inlay results using F-Engrave, and was only able to get acceptable inlays when using 30° or less V Bits. My one comment would be, you seem to be ingnoring the offset requrired for the inlay cut ( I assume this is because you are usine a very sharp angle Vbit.) Example for a 60° bit: tan(1/2 bit angle) the tan of 30° is .57735. You must multiply this factor times the depth of cut and offset that amount. For .2" depth of cut the offset would be .11547" This will offset the V carve cut the exact distance to allow for a precise fit of the male component. I'm surprised that this feature is not builtin to Carveco. Dan B

I found something interesting and a modification I needed to make when using a TBN for inlays. When I set this up as a v-bit in my tool database, I did some test cuts just cutting a 1.25" diameter circle. It worked fine for the female pocket, but cut the male insert just a little too small and there was too much play in the pocket. After doing some research, some set up the TBN as an engraver bit in the tool database, key difference is you need to specify a flat width for the bottom of the bit. This worked great for the male but cut the female too small. So for my CNC, I set up the female pocket using the TBN as a v-bit and the male male is cut using the TBN as an engraver bit and it seems to work.

Hello - thank you for this information…it helped a lot. Did you end up making an advanced inlay video?

I have a dout, the star depth is suppose to be under 0.00 so the value we put in there is negative cos i did it just like you said on the video , my female depth is 6.35mm so for the male i put 5.2mm on the star depth and 1.15mm om the maximum depth but my cnc cuts 6.35mm

For the make toolpath setup, would it fail if you do a final depth of the .25 instead of the .2 starting with a .05 doc?

Great tutorial. One question . On the male, if you start at 0.2" and max depth 0.05", does that mean the 1/16" bit has to plunge in 0.2" and carve that out in one go so the total depth is 0.25"? That's putting a lot of load on the small bit.

Can all the features demonstrated work with the standard Carveco (non-plus) version to your knowledge?? Thanks.

Hi Vernon, would there be any disadvantages to adding a clearing pass before running the vbit tool path (both roughing and carving) so the plunge is not stressful on the bit?

just a question for you. would these numbers work with a 1/2 Dia x 60 degree or 45 degree?

Thanks you so much for the time and money you spend making these videos. My question has to do with my new Genmitsu CNC 3020 Pro MAX. I need a software, user friendly, to use with my MAC Pro. all your videos refer to "Windows" environment commands. Is Carveco what I need. (In your opinion). Thx John

So, I followed your instructions and had one inlay turn out great. However, the next one not so much, even though using the same settings. In fact, I tried it a second time and both times, the male inlay comes up about 1/16" smaller than the female for all vectors? Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Used an 1/8" endmill for rough and a 1mm tbn entered as a v-bit in my tool library.

Do you have a link to the TBN used?

Im trying to make an Inlay im using a 1/8 balled nose I dont have the bit you have but my carve is not going deep enough I put limit depth .25

If Cutting Depth is in millimeter, what is the depth in mm

Seems like my bit is going to break if I use a .2 start depth. What am I missing?

How do you set the clearance so you can see the male portion actually set into the female. I want to se more clearance on the waste material if that makes sense.

Question I need to know this. Why do I need a start depth That is not zero when doing the male piece. Why can I not gradually go down to the depth I need

Well, it’s me again. I cannot get it to work. On the male piece where you say, make it .2 it drives my little bit all the way down into the wood .2” on first pass. Any ideas what I am doing wrong

i tried all of these numbers on my onefinity elite and the male is too small on all, width not depth. Any ideas?

Fantastic video! It's so difficult to find a youtuber with carveco experience. I'm trying to do the inlay the same way you did however my bit (Amana #46282-K 5.4 degree tapered bit) is making the male inlay smaller than the female, do you have any tips in to how to set it up? I'm sure I did something wrong

Well your video is great. But you said you made you cutter a carve bit. Now it is a ball you also said. I tried this and made the tool but nowhere did it ask the radius of the ball. So I think that is why my pieces were loose. I think carve bits have little to know flat or rad on the bottom.