Using shopbot as a planer

[msantos]

I am gluing up 1x8x8 mahagony and want to plane the boards so i have a flat surface. i have already glued them together so how do i do this on the bot? what is the command to do this?

thanks for the help!

[Gary Campbell]

Martin..
You can use the table top surfacer in SB3 or earlier posts have a couple surfacers with inputs for stepdown, stepover, length & width written by David Buchsbaum and Paco. Or you can input the size as a rectangle in either PW select clear area (raster 0 degrees)
Gary

[knight_toolworks]

I like using vcarve to do it since it will let you raster with the grain. just make a box slightly larger then the piece. use ramp in and it is easy to cut a bit deeper then you normally can.

[andyb]

Martin,
Ditto on what Steve said. I just did this last weekend with some cedar that I glued up for a sign. The sign is for a friend that is the Scoutmaster of a local troop. I surfaced both sides. The only problem I had was holding the board down. My vacuum wasn't holding it enough.

Andy B.


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[knight_toolworks]

I just made a pegboard with cams for holding parts that a vacuum won't hold. I will post a picture today. the bot is great for cutting boards no glue worries at all and they are cut very cleanly. Just got the amana 2.5" flattening bit it works great.

[dray]

I just did that with ironwood