Open new file in aspire

set the document to landscape

Z 0 position off the top of the surface

Working from left bottom corner on the XY datum 

Appearance MDF 

Create the vector (which was the slotted hole) so click create a vector and x 70.0 y 50.0 and diameter 30mm and hit create 

Can pan across the image by pushing down on the scroll wheel to look at the stuff up closer

Toggle geometry snapping on and off — turn it on! To create tangents 

Create another circle for the slotted hole: x 140mm y 50 (y is distance from baseboard) and diameter 30mm and hit create and hit close

Join the two circles with the snap to geometry tool and use poly line, click on top of one circle, drag a line to other circle’s top, and snap the tangent there, then straight down and snap to the tangent on the bottom of that circle, then to the left circle and snap to the bottom of that circle, then left click on the close button to leave the function  

Click on left mouse button away from the newly drawn vector

Go over to the scissors under the edit objects tab, now in active trim

Cut the left circle’s right side that’s a semi circle, the right circle’s vertical line in the center, and the right circle’s left side that’s a semi circle.

Left click on mouse button and drag to the left to see the new vector 

To do dimensioning, under create vectors tab click dimension - add dimensions to a 2D drawing

Make sure in horizontal dimension

Left click on the middle of the left vertical side and drag across to the point on the other side, left click there and then take the dimension box anywhere you want and left click

Aspire will normally be in imperial when open it up and will be .2 in total height (saying .2 of an inch which about 5 mm), not 10 so put 10 mm in the text height box (100mm)

Now vertical dimension, click on edge of right semi circle and horizontal line and drag down to that point across the circle and left click to put dimension down on inside or outside of vector (30mm) which is our diameter

Do arc dimension by left clicking on the top left corner of the left semicircle and pull out to put arc dimension (15mm radius) on inside or outside of vector

Click close

Left click on mouse button, press delete button on keyboard on all the dimensions just made

Drag screen by left clicking on scroll wheel so can see the whole screen 

(Left?) click on the vector, go over to the offset and layout tab, click the second icon along, array copy, and click that 

Enter 2 in columns (x) and 2 in rows (y)

300 on the x’s offset (measuring from the right center point on the vector to the right center point on the vector this array copy will make (its the same center to center)) and 200mm on the y’s offset for how high it is

 Click the copy button

click close

Drag to make a box over all four vectors to select them all

To center them on the work piece go under the transform objects and click the align selected objects

Then click align to material for all of them (align left-right would align them on the middle on the y-axis and align up and down would align them equal distance on the x-axis) 

Click close

Click on upper left “switch to toolpath commands” button

Cutting the four vectors out (not a pocket)

Clicked on 2d profile toolpaths 

Start depth 0, cut depth 16.1mm (bc want to go .1 of a mm through the material, material itself 16 mm deep)

Selected end mill, move down into metric tools 

6.35mm = ¼ inch which is diameter 

How much can take in any one pass is 5mm 

Spindle speed set to 18000 rpm

Feed rate set to 41.67mm/sec

Plunge rate is 5mm/sec

Tool number set to 1

Click apply

Click ok

Edit the passes to tell it how deep it goes in each pass, only want to cut 2mm in first pass

Click edit passes

Set 1st pass to 2mm deep

Click apply (the pass depth long yellow/tan bar thing represents the full thickness of the board)

Click on second arrow, set second pass to 7mm deep

Click apply

Click on third arrow, set 3rd pass to 12.0mm deep

Click apply 

Click on fourth arrow, set 4th pass to 16.1mm deep 

Click apply 

Click ok 

Now look at the layout 

Under machine vectors, clicking on would run on the line, clicking outside would go around the line, and clicking inside would cut inside the line (leaves the line on the board)

Click on inside to cut inside the line under the machine vectors tab

Direction set to conventional and turn clockwise (the arrow at top of little box pointing to the left, around the corner, and down) 

Under add tabs to toolpath, set length to 6.0mm and thickness to 1.5mm

Click edit tabs (changes where they are)

Set constant number to 4 (4 tabs per vector)