V-Carve Inlay Using Estlcam (But Technique Can Be Used With Any CAM Software)

[jamiek (Jamie)]

You could try the “diagonal flip” method that will be less sensitive to squareness problems. It is sensitive to overall dimensional problems if X and Y don’t have the same scale, but the overall size is easier to get precise.

Flipping on a skewed machine

If you want to flip a piece to mill both sides, or if you want to mill negative and flipped positive shapes for inlay, it’s generally accepted that the machine needs to be square. I got to thinking, a skewed machine would produce a rhombus instead of a square. Such a rhombus would usually not be symmetrical about an X or Y flip, but it would be symmetrical about a diagonal flip. The exact location and angle of the axis of symmetry would depend on whether the X or Y or both were skewed, and by…