Can i cut a clip art dome dish concave?

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Can i cut a clip art dome dish concave?

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Can anybody here tell me how to cut one of the clip art dome dishes in Vcarve as a concave half sphere?

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Make it Subtractive Merge and add a Zero Plane to the project.
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mtylerfl wrote:Make it Subtractive Merge and add a Zero Plane to the project.

Michael, can you briefly explain that for us in the elementary class please... lol. When I read the OPs question, I thought he was referring to the 3D model of the dome. Which dome are we talking about? What on earth is subtractive merge? And where is the Zero Plane.

I apologize if this is hard to explain, but I am just wanting to understand.

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Hi Ed,

There are a couple video tutorials that explain and show the procedures.

Here is a link to one of the VCarve tutorials. Go to the 20-minute mark for the info about Zero Plane and making a Dome subtractive merge:

https://support.vectric.com/tutorials/V ... &time=1207

There are at least three ways to change the Merge properties of a component. The video shows just one of the methods.
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Post by Jan.vanderlinden »

Ha,,
Sounds like the exact same problem I had recently.
https://forum.vectric.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=32441
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Thanks Michael, appreciate it.

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Holler if you need more help, Ed.
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