Does anyone know how to do inlay in the bottom of a pocket? I have tried but it just floats on top.
Hi Ken,
I assuming you are doing a straight cut inlay. The reason the male wont automaticaly fit can be two things. You kept certain parts of the design straight while the counterpart cannot have that because the radius of the bit will leave a rounded edge. The other one is, you didn’t have a ofset allowance set for the female part, leaving the male part too large to fit.
I don’t know what design software you use but there are packages out there that at least do the roundings automaticly when usimng their straight inlay toolpath function.
Here’s a tutorial on straight inlays using vcarvepro, but it contains lots of usefull tips and tricks, even if you use other design softweare and may contain insights on why things don’t fit that I can type a whooooole lot of words for and not get accross with my stoasn coal English.
This one may well send you on the way to a succesfull inlay.
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I’m not sure but have you tried setting the top of your pocket as your new top and zeroing the Z to that new top?
Sure have done that but it still floats at the top.
@ken1 When you say that “it floats on top” what is it that floats? Do you mean that, after cutting the pocket, the toolpath that should cut into the bottom of the pocket to create the female portion of the inlay does not cut into the bottom of the pocket?
What CAD/CAM application are you using?
Have you confirmed that you have not bottomed out your Z gantry with the first pocket, so that it cannot cut any deeper?
I am using vcarve pro. When I look at the 3d model it is showing the pink plug is showing floating at the top and the pocket is cut too deep on bottom of the pocket.
@ken1 If you want to post your .crv file, I can look at it. Post either here or in a DM is you prefer. If not, no worries. Without it, I am out of ideas.