Ok I’ve searched and can’t find a solution. When I cut with easel it won’t cut all the way through the material leaving just the tabs
Example wood is 3/4 thick can’t seem to set the depth below 3/4 in easel it won’t even show up as a cut through in 3D preview??? It’s driving me nuts. Did I not set up something right in the software or drivers ??? I’ve had to chisel out every shape and design
I know it’s me and not the machine
Bye I’ve had it up and running for 48 hours only so cut me some slack ( no pun intended )
Thanks in advance
Hey Neil
Can you send a link to your Easel file and a pic of what happened?
Check you material thickness, just because you bought 3/4 it maybe a bit thicker?
Good call @GlennMDutcher do you have a digital caliper @NeilBerkeley?
I did measure the material with digital calipers and entered that into the z measurement
That is correct yes ?
Top and bottom of work
Screen shot of what I had before cut that doesn’t seem right only one shows up on 2d pane
Humbug
Maybe you set Z0 off just a bit.
Or your machine is a little off. It looks like it cut all the way through in spots
Thank you all. I will give it a shot today. I will try fudging the thickness. That makes sense. What an amazing community
I will get it figured out I have no doubt
I’ve had this problem, and it turned out my wasteboard wasn’t perfectly flat. MDF tends to have slight “waves” in it. After resurfacing the wasteboard I got a better cut. I usually just add a bit to my material thickness though.
Are you using a ball-end bit? I had the same problem a while back until I wised up and realized I wasn’t using a flat-end bit.
Calibrating your Z-axis is also a good suggestion (@PhilJohnson), as is leveling/resurfacing your wasteboard (@Rusty).
Still not getting through it ?
Material dimensions
23.75x7x0.27
Actual
23.75x7x0.25
Work in progress
Why can’t I put a negative number in cut depth??
And yes this dummy was using a ball nose bit