Start with the little one between H and O and and try to make it about 5 mm, so it needs to be 11 mm for a 1/4" bit or 8 mm for a 1/8" bit. Simply edit the drawing and cut pieces out of the outline that maslow will skip over. These ones will be 3 mm thick because the last cut will be from 16-19.1 mm. I don’t have a good feel yet for how large the tabs should be. such as the center of the O, the piece between the M and E, and the little pieces between the O-H and O-M and of course between the larger cutout and the sheet it is cut from.
NOTE ON TABS: put a tab in on any completely cut out part.
Select the cutout, then choose the node tool (second one down below the select arrow. Your green box and orientation points should disappear when you hide the cut layer. First Hide the cut layer, make the tabs layer visible. Use the “hide layer” function and click on the orientation points for each layer and manually adjust them in the position boxes at the top of the screen so they are exactly the same. The critical thing is to get the orientation points exactly on top of each other so there is no offset one layer to the next. To be precise in moving the orientation point group, use the X and Y location boxes up near the help menu to place the orientation points and make it easier to know the distance from maslow home to your cutout. You can edit the right group of numbers if your material thickness changes if you are reusing this design and regenerating the gcode. The points should always move as a pair and do not try to change them with respect to each other. If you want to cut on the left side of home, you would select the orientation point group and move them to the right. If you chose a step of 4 mm, Maslow will cut 4 passes at a z plunge depth of -4, -8, -12, -16 from the top layer that is labeled “cut” in this example and the “tab” layer will cut at 19.1 mm. With 3/4" ply, the total depth will be 19.1 mm. The second set of numbers represents your workpiece total cut depth that maslow will cut (in x passes of step depth defined in the colored box previously made). Wherever you place the first orientation point on the left, that will be the home point from which the drawing is referenced in webcontrol or groundcontrol. Orientation points tell your maslow where to cut with respect to home. Set up origin points with the same layer selectedĮxtensions->gcodetools->orientation points Cutting successfully at 4 mm can be done and even 5 mm, but there is a proportional speed drop that must accompany it to generate fine dust and the bit cool so it doesn’t overheat.ī. Depth step is the depth your tool will cut in 1 pass in mm. Penetration feed is 800 for the z insertion for a first gen z axis. Penetration angle is always 90 for maslow because the router on the sled is flat on the work surface. This picture for this example was cut at 550 with a 1/4" bit. You can cut at 750, but it may not be good quality and your tool will dull faster if it gets hot. Set your feed rate based on your material in mm/min (between 300 and 800). change diameter to 6.35 if you are using a 1/4" bit or 3.175 if you are using a 1/8th inch bit. or just click to select the text and then click on the text tool bar on the left or the right side of the page. If your attempts to edit add numbers over the top, then undo and retry. Do this by double clicking on them and then when you get the text cursor you can edit them. If you paste it in and it isn’t lined up, you can move it and it will snap to the other layer so it will be lined up perfectly.Īfter pasting, they may not line up, so move it if you need to. With both layers visible, you should not be able to tell them apart, but you can toggle which one you see hiding or viewing it in the layer viewer. CTRL+C will copy everything that is selected. 
Select all (CTRL+A) or draw a box around everything If you can’t select anything on the layer, you can right click on the layer and select unlock all and then unhide all to see everything. Don’t mess with the lock or you won’t be able to edit or select anything in that layer. If the eye is black with eyelashes this is viewable, if greyed and looks closed, then it is hidden.
In the layer viewer on the right, you can select which layer is visible by clicking on the eye. Move the tab layer below the first layer as a matter of convention because it is intuitive that the top layer gets cut first, then the tabs at the bottom get cut last. rename it “tabs” by using the right click menu.
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