Can I do v-bit and straight bit designs together in Easel?

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Disclaimer:

Still making designs in Easel. Learning Fusion 360, just not there yet. So there’s that. Let’s speak no more of this.

Background:

  1. I’ve made a design to be cut with a 30 degree bit. Did some practice cuts and it’s to my liking.

  2. A majority of my work thus far has been using up-cut bits of this size and I’m good with that.

Question:

I’d like to also add elements to the design that would use a straight up-cut 2.6mm bits

When I use the “bit” and “detail bit” function to add the upcut bit, it states “Make V bit the Detail bit?” Sure, why not.

However, when I select the upcut bit size I want to use, and design element I create still looks like the v-bit patten in both the design and preview views.

So.

  1. What basic element of education have I brazenly failed to commit to memory that would allow me to do both v-bit and upcut pattern elements in the same design, or

  2. Can’t do it in Easel, or

  3. I’ll just split the design into two elements (v-bit and non-v-but) and run it twice.

Thanks in advance for the corporate wisdom.

  • Dan
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I have run into situations where using a straight bit for the “roughing pass” and v-bit for the “detail pass” doesn’t always do the operations with the right bits to achieve the look I want. (Most often, it tries to do the cutout operation with the v-bit, giving a ridiculous result.)

When that happens, I make a duplicate workpiece (bring up the “workpieces” frame at the bottom of the screen by clicking on that white bar that says workpieces, click on the little down-arrow in the top right corner of the first workpiece and select “duplicate”). Then I set the things I want to carve to the right depth, and the things I don’t want to carve to either 0 depth or I delete those elements. Each workpiece has its own bit, and its own design elements set to carve.