New to Easel, I might be expecting to much?

[McadamHuether]

Hi, this is my first post. I just recently purchased my first X-carve Pro. I’m rusty but I do have a background in AutoCad, MasterCam, Solidworx however its been over a decade since I’ve had to use them. So with that being said, I’m trying to design a simple part and I’m having some difficulty in Easel. So here’s my issues if anyone can steer my to a feature I’m not aware of or if I am finding limits to Easel right from the start.

1. Circular Interpolation - to make a 1/2 hole with an 1/8 bit (so I don’t need to change tools to make a 1/2 drill hole)
2. Center Lining a part - to create features on one side of the part and mirror image it down the middle of the piece to have the same features on the other side - saving time.
3. Manually entering xy cordenance instead of moving the mouse to the spot.
4. This is my current biggest issue - My part is rectangular - it has 1/2inch radiused corners on one end and has a sharp 90 for the remaining 2 corners. (in photo) The blue ones I want to keep. The red ones need to be the 90 degree cut.

[MartinW.Mcclary]

Easel can do more than you first think, but you have to learn all the things first. I’m a Rhino user that started out on MacDraft. Try using this exploder app to make your rectangle into separate parts and then redraw the bottom lines as 90 corners.

Xploder app - Easel / Apps - Inventables Community Forum

for holes, I choose the bit make the hole the needed diameter and then select clear out a pocket , from the choices given.

There is a hole drilling app as well in the toolbox, but I haven’t used it.

[McadamHuether]

That seemed to work for the corners - thank you for your tip - I definitely feel the process could to streamlined and simplified. Now I need to try and work through my other issues. I think you have put me on the right path!