Carving a long sign

[Steven Sirrine]

Very new to CNC. I have a Shark HD4 extended bed, and want to carve a 3' wide X 20" high sign. How to I re-oriantate my file to accomodate that? Can't seem to figure that out!

[Barry Anderson]

If I follow your question correctly, I have experienced the same issue. I would simply set my material size to x=20", Y = 36". Enter the letters for the sign and rotate it 90*. Position the letters on the material as desired, calculate the toolpath and you're ready to cut.

Barry Anderson

[Steven Sirrine]

Thanks, but I thought I could set X 36 and Y 22 and use one of the functions to re-orientate the file to cut it that way. Am I wrong?

[Steven Sirrine]

Thanks, Barry. That works great.

[Barry Anderson]

That is great! I am so glad that I was finally able to help someone after all the help I have received. This is a great site full of helpful folks.

Barry Anderson

[Steve Misher]

Steve: If you start making longer signs, you will use the tile function in V-Carve. I saw a sign that was 8' using that feature and you couldn't see a flaw in any of the letters.
Y axis will be your long run all the time.

[martin54]

Just to follow on from what Steve has said about toolpath tiling this tutorial explains it, there are other tutorials that cover tiling as well I know the howling wolf Tutorial does & there is also a tutorial on 3D tiling, there may be others that cover it as well.

http://support.vectric.com/tutorials/V8 ... _2DTP.html

[Steven Sirrine]

Thanks Steve and Martin54! This is a great Forum with really generous folks!

[sharkcutup]

Long signs can be done also by creating/designing them in V-Carve X=48" Y=24" then once you are satisfied with everything including your tool paths perform the following:

A.) group all your vectors
B.) rotate the grouped vectors to the proper orientation
C.) re-create material size in the correct orientation (X=24" Y=48")
D.) re-align vector group to center of material
E.) un-group all vectors
F.) then do a recalculate of tool paths

You are then GOOD TO GO!

This has always worked for me so I thought I'd pass it along!