Completely new to the program/design side of the hobby. I’ve played around with the CAM portion which is what I need for the Sienci Longmill that I bought. Got the leveling to work and even got a basic circle cutout done.
I’ve tried with all the different components available but none seems to have an option to do leveling in the same direction. Am I not looking in the right portion of the software or can leveling passes not go in the same direction.
Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
Hi @fbayona12 and welcome. The leveling is bi-directional. No one has ever asked that it be only in one direction. Is there a particular reason for this?
Hi Stewart.
I do hobby wood working with small accent tables and cutting boards. All of my work is usually with hardwoods that I have dried out. Before using the longmill, I had a homemade sled and would do the passes in only 1 direction for the finishing pass due to the grain on the hard work. This single direction pass would keep a consistent shade on the grain while planning.
The bidirectional passes makes the shades on the type of hard wook I’m using extremely difficult to sand out.
Makes sense. I was planning to split out a leveling op. That would allow room for more options like bi and uni directional.
Thanks for the feedback and quick response.
I’ll be on the look out for that update.
Hi Stewart,
Was the unidirectional leveling / skimming ever taken any further?
I also think on some wood grain, it would be beneficial.
Great software.
Thank you
I have not modified that code in forever. But I just started the big 4.0 refactor, so it will be easier to get in and add features like that.