X-carve 500x500 mm, cut large pieces

[YasserSaleemFalahIbr]

Hello x-carvers’

1st of all let me thank you all for helping me.
i bought 500x500mm x-carve and i figured that i need larger one later, but now i can not upgrade it cuz it will cost me.
Iam trying now to build RC boat from wood, in my drawing, there is some pieces with a size og 800mm x 150mm.
and i need it as one piece, I was thinking that if is any way that i can cut it into two stage where when the 1st cut is finished i can move the piece down and start the second piece and keep in mind that the cut lines must start where the fist one stop.

any ideas please

[EmilianoMolina]

I describe how I did this to make a table here:

Open Desk layout table build

Hi all, A while ago I posted about a table I wanted to build using my x-carve. At the time I had produced a model to make sure I had my Fusion 360 project set up properly. That original thread is here. Since then I’ve gone and cut out the full-size table. It went well, there were no big issues. The only places where it could have gone wrong were in moving the work from the first position to the second position when cutting pieces that were larger than what the x-carve could fit. Those wer…

[YasserSaleemFalahIbr]

thank you rmiliano, but honestly i did not under stand well your way of doing this, can you please explain it more

[EmilianoMolina]

I’d be happy to answer any questions you have.

[YasserSaleemFalahIbr]

thank you so much, but i would like to know your way. cuz i own 500mm x-carve and i really need to know it.

1- when i have any piece like this image (1.jpg)

i have to to move the piece down for the second cut and point my bit to the point (the left and right point) and consider the left bottom one as my zero point — right?
2- how we can do this is the fusion360

[EmilianoMolina]

In F360 there is an option for each ‘setup’ where you can define the home point for the operations.

You can see it being used in this thread where we talk about the Work Co-ordinate System. You can also see the relevant option in the screenshots.

Fusion 360, and tool orientation problem

Here’s an example. This a g-code imported to easel before this started. [image] You can see that the tool started at the home position, then moves and makes the cuts, then returns to home. [image] And here is g-code imported after this started happening. You can see that the tool path begins at the home position. [image] This is an image of the above part. I set the home position to the lower left corner, but the tool dose mot move from home position. It just goes strait down and star…

[YasserSaleemFalahIbr]

@EmilianoMolina

screenshots

thank you i will give it a try and get back to you

[EmilianoMolina]

Have you used F360 before?

[YasserSaleemFalahIbr]

i tried drawing there and some day, i did the gcode export for the UGS and what happened is that the x-carve keeps going up in the z-axis and then start engraving on wrong height, lots of wrong things happened.

Can i your your way in easle?

[EmilianoMolina]

I don’t know, I’ve never used Easel!