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Yes, a picture would help substantially. With what little we know here, the only answer I can offer is, "Use a clamp," which probably isn't as helpful as you wanted.

I'm not sure what you're asking.

Are you trying to clamp the material down on an axis? Or change the g-code to prevent a movement direction or boundary? Is this a VCarve/Aspire question?

Sounds like you're jumping into the 3d modeling side of the hobby. Sometimes you can get lucky and google "stl" plus your request, then find a file for free or for a nominal price. Since your requests are rather specific, there are a couple ways to go about getting them. One is to learn how to 3d mo...

A .crv file is a VCarve file. It can only be opened by VCarve (or Aspire, perhaps), not by your CNC machine. Your CNC machine isn't even looking for .crv files.

You need to create toolpaths, export those as g-code files, then load those.

Rando, ever considered building your own CNC system? You're halfway there already, maybe more.

Nice looking machine. I hope you find a buyer for it. I need to learn to be better about letting go of past passions that no longer interest me like you're doing. Smart idea. It would be nice if we had a dedicated buy/sell area of the forum. It'd be a cool place to look for stuff like this and the a...

I would do 1/4" cuts per layer, but that probably pretty conservative compared to what most people would use for pine.

Great work! That looks terrific.

I was using a dust collection system that you guys sell First thing to clear up: We don't work for anything related to CNC. We're all fellow hobbyists, just like you. If you run the same sequence again, do they come out deformed in an identical manner? Or is the deformation different each time? I'm...

Josh, can you post those pictures to the forum? It would help a lot.

"Not coming out right" doesn't give us a lot to go on. What's wrong with them? If you run the same sequence again, do they come out deformed in an identical manner? Or is the deformation different each time?