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Surfacing spoiler board around the edge then stopping

Hi,

I’ve just built this wonderful machine and am nervously trying to coax it into surfacing a spoiler board for me…I thought I’d finally created the right file in vcarve to surface a big old rectangle (its a 1000x1500 machine so I think that rectangle is supposed to be 800x1270?) but when I run the file i get a single pass around the edge of that rectangle but then nothing inside it…? File path in vcarve looks Ok to my novice eye - screengrab attached…?

I’m very new to this! Any Ideas?

Thanks

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I’m new as well but heres one possible answer.

Is the 1st pocket 1 only doing the edge in vcarve. You need to load each new pocket into the interface software one at a time i.e. load one, run it. Load next, run it…. especially if a tool change is required.

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Hi Matt,

Thanks for your message.

I am unsure why you have 3 toolpaths setup? To do a surface it should only be a single toolpath. What the toolpath looks like is correct, but it should look the same with only a single toolpath.

Robert.

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