My waste board didn’t come with a grid printed on it. I really thought it did but when it came in, there wasn’t one printed on it.
So I painted mine black and created a grid cut out pattern carve. I have tried numerous ways to cut it out onto the waste board and it isn’t working. Go figure when I want it to cut into the waste board it wont work.
Hey Todd. By chance is this the newest version of the xcarve?
The manual lacks (or includes but in a poorly worded manner) some key information about the mounting of the z axis and if you follow the instruction photod the z axis will be too high and will bottom out before reaching the wasteboard. So youll need to loosen the 4 screws on the back and lower the whole z axis until that bit can actually reach the wasteboard.
That said, the reason the wasteboard doesnt include lines is because it is a best practice (and one of the last steps in the manual) to surface the wasteboard. After surfacing some users will use either a Vbit or a Sharpie attachment to install their own lines. These options are highly preffered over painting and then carving away the areas you want to remove.paint from , because that method will result in high and low spots all over the board, which is an undesired situation.