# Spacing between wasteboard holes (1000mm) **URL:** \ **Category:** Parts & Files\ **Created:** [May 16, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/spacing-between-wasteboard-holes-1000mm/23781 "2016-05-16T18:42:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DerekDewey](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/derekdewey/32/70727_2.png) [@DerekDewey](https://community.inventables.com/u/DerekDewey)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/spacing-between-wasteboard-holes-1000mm/23781/1 "2016-05-16T18:42:20Z")
Sorry for this post but i am at work with nothing to do and no machine to measure. I want to design some hold downs but I have no idea the spacing between. Can anyone help me out? ---
**Author:** ![RyanRoberts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c4cdca/32.png) [@RyanRoberts](https://community.inventables.com/u/RyanRoberts)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/spacing-between-wasteboard-holes-1000mm/23781/2 "2016-05-16T19:19:02Z")
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**Author:** ![DerekDewey](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/derekdewey/32/70727_2.png) [@DerekDewey](https://community.inventables.com/u/DerekDewey)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/spacing-between-wasteboard-holes-1000mm/23781/3 "2016-05-16T19:25:08Z")
Thank you! You need to charge your phone and clear your updates šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![JeremyJohnstone](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/jeremyjohnstone/32/32277_2.png) [@JeremyJohnstone](https://community.inventables.com/u/JeremyJohnstone)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/spacing-between-wasteboard-holes-1000mm/23781/4 "2016-05-16T19:42:57Z")
Almost all the specifications for any of the X-Carveā€™s parts are online, in CAD and PDF formats: > **[X-Carve Instructions: Work Area](https://x-carve-instructions.inventables.com/step13/)** > > X-Carve Instructions ![](https://cdck-file-uploads-canada1.s3.dualstack.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/flex009/uploads/inventables/original/3X/3/3/3378575b58ba62efd375e79a98293af230e28cd4.png) > **[A Fond Farewell to GrabCAD Workbench - GrabCAD Blog](https://blog.grabcad.com/blog/2022/08/09/a-fond-farewell-to-grabcad-workbench/)** > > GrabCAD Workbench laid the foundations of what GrabCAD is today and on June 1st, 2023, GrabCAD Workbench services will be discontinued. ---
**Author:** ![WorkinWoods](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/workinwoods/32/44400_2.png) [@WorkinWoods](https://community.inventables.com/u/WorkinWoods)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/spacing-between-wasteboard-holes-1000mm/23781/5 "2016-05-16T22:35:51Z")
its 75mm on center šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![JosephCompton](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/josephcompton/32/32864_2.png) [@JosephCompton](https://community.inventables.com/u/JosephCompton)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/spacing-between-wasteboard-holes-1000mm/23781/7 "2016-05-17T12:19:44Z")
This would vary slightly depending on where and how you secured your belts. ---
**Author:** ![JasonDubrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@JasonDubrow](https://community.inventables.com/u/JasonDubrow)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/spacing-between-wasteboard-holes-1000mm/23781/8 "2016-10-23T01:51:23Z")
Hi, I just placed an order for a 1000mm x 1000mm xcarve. I was going to make my own wasteboard, I was wondering if I really need to do all 144 hold down holes or if I could do a few dozen and then add more as needed in the future. ---
**Author:** ![JasonDubrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@JasonDubrow](https://community.inventables.com/u/JasonDubrow)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/spacing-between-wasteboard-holes-1000mm/23781/10 "2016-10-23T23:27:51Z")
Awesome! Thank you, so I assume basically the counter sunk holes on the sides are the only really important ones to do so it can mount onto the x-carve? ---
**Author:** ![ChristopherDahle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@ChristopherDahle](https://community.inventables.com/u/ChristopherDahle)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 1:38am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/spacing-between-wasteboard-holes-1000mm/23781/12 "2017-03-03T01:38:06Z")
OK, Iā€™ll admit to being a complete idiot here, but what does this diagram even mean? What are the units??? Iā€™ve been wrestling with trying to make an auxiliary waste-board of 1/8" Masonite held down with carpent tape to overlay the factory waste-board so my students donā€™t chew it up quite so fast. I just want the hole pattern to match up to the factory board. But the hole spacing is some weird dimension, neither an even number of millimeters on center, nor any reasonable fractional inch measurement, so I am having a heck of a time setting up the machine to drill out holes through the auxiliary board. ---
**Author:** ![ErikJenkins](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/erikjenkins/32/84368_2.png) [@ErikJenkins](https://community.inventables.com/u/ErikJenkins)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 1:42am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/spacing-between-wasteboard-holes-1000mm/23781/13 "2017-03-03T01:42:16Z")
The holes are 75mm on center. ---
**Author:** ![ChristopherDahle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@ChristopherDahle](https://community.inventables.com/u/ChristopherDahle)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/spacing-between-wasteboard-holes-1000mm/23781/14 "2017-03-03T02:26:12Z")
I donā€™t doubt you Eric and Iā€™ve read that 75mm elsewhere. Thatā€™s the spacing I laid out in Easel for my first try at an auxiliary waste-board. But when I carved the waste-board, the spacing didnā€™t match up, and thatā€™s when I got out the calipers. Iā€™m getting 75.54 mm center to center on the factory waste-boardā€¦Maybe my board was just a bad production run. Iā€™ll blame gnomes and pixiesā€¦ Iā€™ll just revise the carve by drilling out the holes to 10mm or so to leave some ā€œslopā€ for adjustment.