After getting the dust boot attached had to do a test carve. Finally got my first 3D carve accomplished via v-carve pro. It’s a bit confusing about z-probing the ball-nose finishing pass. Since you no longer have the material’s top surface where you set the top height. So I guess you need to leave a smidge available for probing. I’ve done this kind of carving (in metal) many times on my tormach but the tool offset is in the machine rather than each time you change tools you reprobe. (This is the same as the Glowforge set focus operation, except with an electronic probe)
After switching to the CNC4NEWBIE z-axis I had to remake my entire dust boot assembly as above along with new mounts and brackets. Then of course found that the 2015 x-rails twisted with that much weight so changed out to the wide makerslide. Now I’m going to do a combined project in purple heart and maple ply on the Glowforge for a friend.
