Using a dedicated Drill bit

You can assign a dedicated drill bit to carve the drill holes in your design. Before, Easel always used your roughing or detail bit for drill holes, which often meant making a separate workpiece just for the drills.

With a drill bit, you can:

• Choose a separate bit just for drill holes.
• Skip duplicating workpieces or manually hiding drills.
• Keep everything in one carve with up to four toolpaths: Roughing, Detail, Drill and Outline.

Adding a drill bit

1. Click the + next to your selected bit and choose Drill Bit.

   

2. A Drill Bit tab (1) appears in the settings bar. Click it, then choose your bit from the drop-down (2).

3. Review the Cut Settings (3). A drill pass only plunges, so you only need to set the Plunge rate and Depth per pass.

   

4. Click Simulate to preview your carve. The drill pass appears as a separate purple toolpath.
5. When you carve or download G-code, choose Drill Pass when selecting which toolpath to run.

To remove the drill bit, click the × on the Drill Bit tab.