Help needed, new to cnc and having cut depth issues

[Dean jeffery]

Two questions:does the operation simulate correctly in Vcarve?Does the Gcode output from the example in post#8 include the description G01 Z-4.35?

Yes it simulates correctly it’s how one checks to make sure programming mistakes.

Yes that’s why I posted a picture because it says depth so no minus needed, but it post out g1 z-4.35