Multi-sided machining Tips

[tallen84]

I am looking to carve at least 4 sides of a wood block (top, bottom, left, right) on my shopbot buddy (3-axis). Has anyone tried doing this yet? I am using vcarve pro and it seems to only support 2 sided machining natively. I am guessing I need to do this with 2 different vcarve files.

Looking for any tips or insights both in the software and setting up the machine to do this and maintain alignment.

[coryatjohn]

I've done it with two, two-sided files.

[scottp55]

Maybe a good read for fixturing for 4 sided?
https://forum.vectric.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=35283&p=262895#p262895

[tallen84]

Thank you for sharing. I will see if I can adapt something similar to that and make it work.

[coryatjohn]

Perhaps an irrelevant tip:

An indexer makes for an excellent hold down device for doing multi-sided machining.

[tallen84]

I ended up making a fixed hold down board with a machined pocket. Each cut used the same XYZ 0 point.

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