Originally Posted by
ckjk616
New to CamBam, I'm beginning to catch on, but I have a few questions. I've been setting a cut width for inside cuts, and see that it starts toward the inside and works its way out to the final dimension. These cuts have been perfect. Doing outside cuts, it starts at the final dimension, then works its way out. Can I reverse this? On inside cuts, I wind up with a good clean cut as the cutter is taking very little off at the end, giving me a "finish cut". That's what I'm looking for on the outside cut.
Second, my outside cut involved a circle with a rectangular cutout on its perimeter. The router makes the squared turn into the cutout, but doesn't reach the end of the first square corner. I expect a rounded corner, but the cutter never gets that far. Shouldn't the cutter hit the second line of the square, then turn to the next perpendicular side, then reach the third side and do the same? What it's doing is approaching the first inside turn, but veering off to the second. Where am I going wrong?
Finally, is there any good documentation I can download. The different online tutorials are clearly lacking. I see that new documentation is on the way, but until it's available, I'll settle for the old. Thanks.
Regards,
Jeff
On both inside and on outside cuts you can do a second profile cut that is a "cleanup" cut. If you want to do something like have a letter O or A that is much wider than your bit diameter you can define the middle of the O as an "island" inside of a larger round pocket. Instructions are on the CamBam site for that operation. It involves defining the middle of the O as an island, the outside of the O as a pocket. Then you define the outside of the O as an inside profile and the island as an outside profile. What will happen is that you cut a pocket that stops at the island boundary, then do two cleanup profiles that eliminate the ends of the tool paths with a light cut. Clear as mud yet?
The free beta has some issues and is not upgraded, I gave up on it, but the Pro version lets you use it 40 times before it expires. No time limit otherwise. The Pro version has all of the current features and gets updated. When/if you pay for it you get an email that will eliminate the trial counts. I'm still figuring the Pro version out.
There is a CamBam forum on CNC Zone where you may get some better answers.
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