Woodcraft West Springfield

we have a few spots still available for this class

Beginner
V-Carve/CNC for Beginners

with Real Mercier
Saturday, February 21, 2026, 12 PM - 4 PM
This introductory course will take you from concept to design, and create toolpaths ready to bring to your CNC machine. This class will cover the following: • Basic project setup. material selection, size, zero position, and X -Y Datum. • Basic drawing tools (Circles, Squares, Ovals, etc…) and how to edit and transform objects. • Tool type and selection (End mills, V-Bits, Ball Nose). • Toolpaths: Profile, Pocket, Drilling, V-Carve and others. • Post Processing. Saving your tool paths for your machine. We will be using Vectric’s V-Carve software for this Class. It is highly recommended that you bring your own fully charged laptop with at least the demo version V-Carve Desktop or Pro version loaded. The demo version is freely available for download at https://www.vectric.com/free-trial/ We will be using our in-house Next wave CNC to demo the machine and produce our design.

1200 pounds of cut offs hitting the floor