Forty minutes later, the milling began. The Beast didn't scream. It hummed. It danced. Copper curls, fine as angel hair, spun away from the bit. When it finished, Leo held up the board.
she said, dragging a Gerber file into the void. "The Isolation Route. Most people run one pass. That's like painting a fence with a firehose. You go too wide, you lose your tracks. You go too narrow, you get bridges." coppercam tutorial
She explained the voodoo: you tell CopperCAM to probe the board in a 5x5 grid. It learns the dips and hills. Then, when it cuts, it adjusts its depth on the fly—a digital river finding the easiest path through a stone valley. Forty minutes later, the milling began
"That's the ghost," Elara said. "The 'Probe' routine. Most people skip it because it takes five extra minutes. But those five minutes separate a circuit from a disaster." It danced