Sending to MapleCAM
The MapleCAM tab hands the job to MapleCAM directly: the parts arrive on stock as a project, with operations already set up from the choices you make here. No exporting, no re-importing.
MapleCAM must be running. While it is not reachable the tab says so and keeps checking, so starting MapleCAM after Tenon recovers on its own within a few seconds.
Choosing tools
The tab lists the tools from MapleCAM's own library — the same presets you maintain there, not a second copy. Reload re-reads them if you have just added one.
Pick two: the engrave tool and the cut tool. They can be on different machines, which is the point of the machine pickers beside them: engrave on the laser, cut on the router, in one job.
Options
Leave holding tabs — small uncut bridges that hold each part to the sheet so it cannot come loose and be thrown while the cut finishes. Set the tab size in millimetres beside the checkbox. Leave this on for anything cut on a router.
Score cut outlines (verify pass) — traces the cut outlines with the engrave tool before cutting them. A cheap dry run: you see exactly where the parts will land on the board and can confirm the stock is positioned correctly before any material is removed.
Cut filled shapes (outline only) — cuts around filled artwork rather than clearing it out. Faster, and appropriate when the "fill" is meant to be a cut-out rather than an engraved area.
What arrives in MapleCAM
A project per panel, containing the panel's geometry as parts on stock, with operations generated for the tools you chose: laser contours for a laser cut, spindle contours for a router, engrave or fill operations for the marks, each selecting on the decal blocks the design carries.
From there it is an ordinary MapleCAM project. Generate the toolpaths, check the simulation for overcut, and export G-code.
If a send is rejected
MapleCAM validates what it is given and refuses a job it cannot cut safely. The messages are specific — a laser whose lens cannot focus as deep as the cut asks, a tool too short for the material. Fix it on the MapleCAM side (a different tool or lens) or on the Tenon side (thinner stock), and send again.
Nothing is lost when a send is rejected: the design is untouched, and the validation happens before any toolpath is generated.