# Milling larger pieces on my Longmill

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**Category:** 🧠 New Wisdom\
**Created:** [May 13, 2022, 11:21am UTC](https://forum.sienci.com/t/milling-larger-pieces-on-my-longmill/5839 "2022-05-13T11:21:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![ApexWoodworks](https://forum.sienci.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e19adc/32.png) [@ApexWoodworks](https://forum.sienci.com/u/ApexWoodworks)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 11:21am UTC](https://forum.sienci.com/t/milling-larger-pieces-on-my-longmill/5839/1 "2022-05-13T11:21:26Z")

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This is probably old hat for those of you who’ve been CNCers for a long time… but it’s new ground for me.

I had to mill the 4 legs for a cabinet I’m making. Here’s what the front of that cabinet looks like on the CAD program I’m using, Vectric VCarve Pro:

 ![Credenza CAD Plan](https://forum.sienci.com/uploads/default/original/2X/2/21bf623508cdff7a342930af193430c0a1f5275e.jpeg)

But because the legs were all slightly longer than the 30" X or Y capacity of my mill, I simply oriented the piece diagonally at 45 degrees.

 ![Milling diagonally](https://forum.sienci.com/uploads/default/original/2X/9/95cb0c42ec76ecf8b3519c36a95d33cfe8fcde46.jpeg)

Of course, it worked like a charm and now I’ll be able to insert the curved end panels into the slot I’d milled into the inside faces of each of those leg sections.

 ![Gables photo 2](https://forum.sienci.com/uploads/default/original/2X/4/4c251bc45b83e4d5715946381cd2dacab75d2c91.jpeg)

Marty Schlosser  
Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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**Author:** ![gwilki](https://forum.sienci.com/user_avatar/forum.sienci.com/gwilki/32/366_2.png) [@gwilki](https://forum.sienci.com/u/gwilki)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 12:28pm UTC](https://forum.sienci.com/t/milling-larger-pieces-on-my-longmill/5839/2 "2022-05-13T12:28:28Z")

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@ApexWoodworks Nicely thought out and done, Marty. 😀

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**Author:** ![ApexWoodworks](https://forum.sienci.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e19adc/32.png) [@ApexWoodworks](https://forum.sienci.com/u/ApexWoodworks)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://forum.sienci.com/t/milling-larger-pieces-on-my-longmill/5839/3 "2022-05-28T00:07:54Z")

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Thanks! I’ll have to post photos of the completed credenza. Unfortunately that won’t be for a few months as we’re away on a vacation for a while.