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Which machine can cut it

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Most work in the app any joinery machine can make. Some cannot be made by every machine: it needs a five-axis head, or a special tool that not every machine carries. The app labels that work Specialised machine and says which machines can make it.

The label only informs. It blocks nothing, and the machine files are written the same with or without it. It tells you what to check with the shop before you send a file.

  • On the processing card: a small Specialised machine badge beside the name. Hover it to read why.
  • Beside a field: the field whose value makes it so, such as the lean of a drilling or the angle of a marking, says what it needs, for example Needs a five-axis head.
  • Under the fields: one sentence says what the work needs and which machines can make it.
  • In the Add list: a type that always needs it carries the badge.
  • In the machine view of the 2D drawing and the 3D view: the face code gets a short tag, such as RS4 · 5-axis or RS2 · K2 tool.
  • In the export: under Check before you send, a note names the parts and what they need. It never blocks.
  • In the technical specification: each part lists its specialised work by row number, under the processings.
Work What it needs
An oriented housing whose floor is tilted both ways, or tilted in a housing turned in its face a five-axis head
An oriented housing with a leaning wall a five-axis head
A drilling leaning across its face, or both ways a five-axis head
A rebate or groove with a sloped wall a five-axis head
A countersink on a drilling, or on a bore in an end a countersinking tool
A marking at an angle a special marking tool
A tenon or a dovetail tail whose shoulder leans both ways, or that is turned about its own axis a five-axis head
A Tyrolean dovetail a special dovetail cutter

A five-axis head is on a Hundegger ROBOT-Drive, and on a K2 with its five-axis mill. The special tools are a K2’s, and a ROBOT-Drive’s. A floor that slopes one way only, a drilling leaning along the part, a housing turned in its face and a saw incision with its blade tilted carry no label: every joinery machine makes them.

Hundegger’s description of its BVN format marks which operations only a K2, or a K2 with the five-axis mill, can make. The label follows those marks, so it says the same as the format does. Other makes of machine have their own limits: when in doubt, ask the shop.

Each processing page shows, under Machine export, which of its forms need a specialised machine.