Carbide Create Design Solutions
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- Small mistakes in your CAD files can create significant headaches during machining. As you make more complex items, your file design habits become increasingly important. In this video, Kevin helps you identify potential pitfalls and suggests best practices for CAD that will pay dividends on all your future CNC router projects.
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Always appreciate your insights and encouragement to try new things. Your comment on stepover is something I will look at. Doing 3d work has been my biggest challenge so far. I just learned that those great looking 3d files on sale in ETCY are picture renderings and not real CNC produced products. This left me questioning many things on why it doesn't produce an end product anywhere close in detail. I would love if you could take one of those fancy looking 3d files and show us step by step how to get the best results possible. That would be AWESOME
Number 9 was exactly the problem I was having. Had no idea how to fix it until this video. Much appreciated!
NICE! We're happy the video was 5 min. well spent.
As a software developer, it sure seems like a lot of these are solvable with UI design within the software:
1. require names on things when creating them. Also you have cutter data already, why should the user be putting that in again?
2. Ask if origins should carry over when creating a new file, instead of blindly copying them
3. Warn if there are toolpaths outside of the stock, or if there are parts more than X distance away from other parts.
4. Warn about empty toolpaths, or cutters that are wider than some features they are being asked to cut
5. Assuming you know the material being used, it should be fairly easy to integrate some guidelines into the software about how large the tabs should be based on anticipated cutting forces, and then warn about potential issues.
9. When creating a 3d finishing operation, override the default stepover intelligently and allow it to be changed (say, if the user wants that look?). I dont see why I should need to change this every time.
We'll pass these along to the software development team. Thanks for taking the time to make the list.
You always do a great job explaining different topics and making the learning curve less and less. Can you do a video on tapered ball mills and wood inlays? Trying to get it figured out for some upcoming projects!
Good suggestion, Tait. Thanks
Super Video as always 😎‼️
Appreciate that
Big thing I had issues with in the beginning was making sure to use the best bit for the job when it would come to upcut, downcut or compression.
Good call. Understanding endmill characteristics is important.
why when selecting two lines to make one closed area the pocket tool sometimes does not wanna pocket? It seems so random and I cant find any consistency as to when it wont allow the toolpath.
Pocketing only works on closed vectors, so you cannot click multiple lines that overlap to pocket, you need to join them first.
I would love a good explanation of how to use the Stock Thickness Bottom option. Also, in the settings, Does it make an actual difference with the Type of Material option that you choose, or is it more of an admin reminder?
Hi Juan,
The Type of Material is a reminder for you and a record of the file's previous usage. Selecting a material in the Job Setup does not result in a later result.
For the Expression Editor:
Check out this video: ua-cam.com/video/8rsL73WGBbo/v-deo.html
Click on this Chapter: The Expression Editor with Cutouts - 42:37
There, I have an extensive explanation about using the T- Value.
If I didn’t have to re-scale imported DXF files that would be helpful as well,
If I scale up the file in carbide create detail is lost,
I end up exporting my DXF from the original program at a very large size (original size x 25) then final scaling in carbide create,
CC is the only place I run into this issue.
Love your videos.
Thanks Dennis
Nice list, You going to do a proper Shapeoko 5 Pro 4x4 traming video any time soon? Also is the Carbide 3D team going to release a 80mm spindle holder?
We're happy you enjoyed this video. This is probably what you're looking for: ua-cam.com/video/waexEs3cCDU/v-deo.html
A small thing I do is buy bits with a consistent shank diameter. I still have to change bits but at least I don't have to also change collets.
We structure our tooling preparation by having multiple collet nuts with pre-installed collets.
not mucking with vcarve depths should be at the top of the list imho. The software adjusts the depth based on the size of the vectors, trying to make them more shallow will cause lot of grief.
You're right, VCarve can be a bit tricky to understand. This video may add to your knowledge base: ua-cam.com/video/35nj3g3h6Zc/v-deo.html
Good tips, though most of these felt like more on the CAM side rather than the CAD side of things.
Potato Potato, glad you enjoyed the tips.
You mention 3D Finish stepover. It would be helpful if Carbide Create honored the 3D stepover value stored for the tools when adding a tool to a 3D Finish toolpath, rather than ignoring it and defaulting to a 50% stepover.
While I cant find the spreadsheets stored for carbide 3d bits, I found the folder to put my own spreadsheets with bit information. I just add information to the spreadsheet itself. I name it like this "Name+Name+Name"", Close out CCpro and reopen and wallah my tools are there with all the info. I've never really used the "add tool" because I don't know where that info is going. I didn't even know there was a problem with step over. But adding your owns spreadsheet is a solution for you.
@@iwannaapple7190 Choosing a tool from a custom tool library for a 3D Finish toolpath results in the same issue, the stepover automatically defaults to 50% of the tool diameter regardless of what the 3D Stepover value is set to for that tool. Yes you can override the setting but the question is why have the setting stored if it is ignored? That is just bad programming and it gets new users confused when their first 3D attempts look like crap because the stepover was way too high.
@@tornadokat FIrst off, that's not bad programming. All that is is an error entering data onto a .csv spreadsheet. Thats not bad programming.
Secondly, I tried it. It did not occur with the 1/32 & 1/64 bits but it did happen with the 1/4" inch bit. TO SOLVE THAT THIS IS WHAT YOU DO...get or create your own .csv spreadsheet (bit vendors usually have them) and put it in the carbide3d/carbidecreate/tools folder and name it the way I said. When you open CC, CC will recognize it and display it in the window. Then you won't have to be bothered by it.
They should make origin be stored in the actual file not a global setting.
Origin IS stored in the project, his point was that you set it and it holds over to next project for convenience. You can either accept or change origin in that project.
@@JohnColgan. Personally I'd love to see an alternative (in a general CC settings screen) as to whether you want this behavior. I can't imagine any time I'd expect or want it to carry settings over from an unrelated project. Ideally, you could set some defaults for all new projects (i.e. top Z, bottom left origin). Alternatively, creating a new file could immediately pop open the project settings screen and require you to set them, even if you override them later. Either way, I personally think the current behavior is super error-prone!