Seth, got a question for you concerning bit changes in Easel. I use Easel but my machine is a OneFinity. My question is, how does the bit change work with that setup? I want to use an 1/8" downcut to hog out my material, then use a 90 deg Vbit for the detail pass. I have that all set up in Easel. I'm thinking the code will stop the machine for a bit change after hogging out so I can put in the 90. But I'm not sure how to start the program back up for the detail pass only the Onefinity. I see on the Inventables machine, it lets you do that. Or do I have to run a separate gcode for the detail pass? Any ideas?
For the 1f you'll have to download the gcode and with a 2 bit carve its 2 seperate files. You'll want to swap bits with the machine turned on and set z zero for the 2nd bit, but leave x,y zero as it was and the 2 bits will be properly aligned.. do beware that v bits really need a perfectly parallel top surface, so if you haven't surfaced the workpiece on the cnc first you might want to check out my video on shimming the workpiece with playing cards, or you might notice imperfections in the details.
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