NEW USER PURGATORY: 13th level of despair

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NEW USER PURGATORY: 13th level of despair

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I'm at the 13th level of purgatory... please help. I just wanted to nudge my letters give myself more space for the tool bit to clear. The letters are modeled and raised. The surface surrounding the letters is removed by .5 of a 1" thick mdf.
Initially, I had a very pretty offset, and that crisped the text. It regenerated with a shadow under the letter "s" and any other letter that I moved.
I removed edited my initial offset, by setting it to zero. that didn't work.
I cancelled the offset, that didn't work.

I also found that I had multiple layers, and I removed the extra letters... the two different colors clued me in, but that didn't work when I regenerated the toolpath.

I snipped all my tool paths and deleted them AFTER I nudged the letters. Same tool path generation result.

The "s" hasn't moved in the tool path.

I guess I will try and see if I can duplicate the problem and will share the file. Your suggestions are appreciated as I've been playing with this since 9:00 pm and I stopped at 1:00 am.

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Sorry, can't help without the file..

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Can you use a smaller cutter?
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Let us help you get out of "purgatory".

Please post your file here. (Not Toolpath code, not a screenshot, but your actual Aspire file.)

If your file is too large to post here, then use DropBox or similar free file posting software and post the download link here instead.
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Re: NEW USER PURGATORY: 13th level of despair

Post by TSM2018 »

Please forgive the complaint. I deleted all the layers and all the tool paths, and the letters individually, and finally got rid of the shadow underneath. There was nothing that I could post as I resaved the file over the file...
It was behaving like a 'ghost'.

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