Hi

I have a stair construction job coming up and want to run the tread and riser housings out on my machine. They are relatively short flights and will fit on my machine bed no problem.

I use vetric V-carve pro as my drawing/machining software and am pretty confident I can draw up the vectors.

I guess my question is more related to the tooling... Stair housing cutters are 'dovetail' in shape (normally 7 degrees?) How would I go about set up as the cutters geometry is wider at the bottom than at the top of the shank.

I also guess this questions extends to any cutters with geometry that is wider at the bottom than at the top and is being plunged passed the material surface?

Just wondering what that meant when it came to toolpathing?

Thanks in advance for any replies

all the best
Nicko