CNC Cutting angled slots on the edge of a panel..?

Instead of laying the piece flat on the table, raise one edge on a slat or something that results in the piece being at 10° to the table. Then use a small straight bit to cut out the notches. You may need to square the corners of the notches depending on the size of the bit you use.

-- Grant Wilkinson, Ottawa ON

I don’t see anyway to do that with them lying flat on the bed. I think that you would have to make a holder to mount them on edge but I think that tear out will be a pretty big problem, especially for pieces so thin. It will probably require backers on both sides to support the cut and even that might not prevent the tearout. A CNC is probably not the best tool for the job. I think that the table saw, possibly with a sled and dado, would be the best approach.

-- Nathan, TX -- Hire the lazy man. He may not do as much work but that's because he will find a better way.

If I had to make those cuts I would build a jig for my router.

The jig would have a slot to guide the router at the deisred 10 degree angle. It would fit ove the edge of the panel with enough size to keep the jig stable, allow for clamping and ensure the router wouldn’t tip.

Another way I might consider is a sled for the table saw and a dado head…

-- Steve - Impatience is Expensive

A lot depends on the type of machine that you have.

In a mass production environment, this would done on a pod and rail based point-to-point machine with an aggregate head with a wrist for horizontal milling.

Not sure this helps you, since, if you had a P2P machine, you might not be asking this question.

-- "Hard work is not defined by the difficulty of the task as much as a person's desire to perform it.", DS251

Thanks all! There e fed up being enough space between the bed and the 4th axis. Good enough for a mock up
I just can’t figure out how to post the photo correctly rotated!

-- Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. -Winston Churchill

That works too.
Your project is very interesting.
I can’t say as I’ve ever seen anything like it before.

As for the photo, the website has some quirks that it doesn’t recognize some rotation setting or some such.
If you edit the photo, rotate it there, then save as a new file with the correct orientation, it seems to work

There is a whole thread here about it – somewhere.
It’s an old issue that many feel should have been fixed long ago.
We just learn to deal with it.

-- "Hard work is not defined by the difficulty of the task as much as a person's desire to perform it.", DS251