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by adze_cnc
Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:21 pm
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: Understanding Model Position in Material
Replies: 2
Views: 51

Re: Understanding Model Position in Material

You probably are missing something. The radio buttons select whether the gap is at the top or bottom of the material. The slider moves the model within the material. Do note, however, that gaps are immaterial if there is no 3D model present (i.e. you only hav 2D vectors and are only making 2D toolpa...
by adze_cnc
Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:17 pm
Forum: Cut2D - General
Topic: install new tool (roman ogee)
Replies: 1
Views: 47

Re: install new tool (roman ogee)

Not knowing what you’ve tried its difficult to say. For any tool that doesn’t match one of the pictures of the predefined types (e.g. not a drill, not an endmill, etc.) you’re left with defining a form tool. And as with most things it’s described in the help system (scroll to the end of the linked p...
by adze_cnc
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:34 am
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: Pro & Desktop compatability
Replies: 5
Views: 102

Re: Pro & Desktop compatability

...an oversize job would need to use the Tiling Manager.
by adze_cnc
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:33 am
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: 1/16 Tapered Ball Nose Settings
Replies: 6
Views: 154

Re: 1/16 Tapered Ball Nose Settings

I'm not sure where to start here. Does the tool shank really look like it's 5/8"? Does the ball diameter look like 1.6 inches? I suspect the tool you have is this one from Amana Tools. If so, the 0.8 at the Amazon link is 0.8mm (~= 0.03 inches—i.e., a 1/32" radius). The rest is comparing the VCarve ...
by adze_cnc
Fri Mar 29, 2024 1:03 am
Forum: Wrapped Rotary Machining
Topic: UCCNC & Rotary Control
Replies: 19
Views: 515

Re: UCCNC & Rotary Control

TReischl wrote:
Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:37 am
I saw something the other day that said G93 came into being with V9????
A couple of links I found that you might like:
Steven
by adze_cnc
Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:24 am
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: Pro & Desktop compatability
Replies: 5
Views: 102

Re: Pro & Desktop compatability

VCarve Pro files are compatible with VCarve Desktop.. It's Aspire files that are not compatible with VCarve anything.
by adze_cnc
Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:26 pm
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: Considering Vcarve
Replies: 8
Views: 208

Re: Considering Vcarve

For Solidworks you can extract the necessary 2D curves (vectors in Vectric parlance) by making a plan view drawing (.SLDDRW)—use an empty template, not one with information boxes, etc. Then export the result as a DWG file. Beware though that I have found that even if you tell Soldiworks to keep clos...
by adze_cnc
Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:03 am
Forum: Cut3D - General
Topic: Rim around my model
Replies: 3
Views: 180

Re: Rim around my model

I haven't had a chance to look at the file but I would suspect that if you click on Material Setup in the toolpath sidebar you'll find a gap above the model. Make that zero in all should be better.

You might need to add a ubiquitous "zero plane" to make the edge cut smoothly.
by adze_cnc
Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:18 pm
Forum: Aspire - General
Topic: Pocket Toolpath not Ramping plunge moves
Replies: 6
Views: 237

Re: Pocket Toolpath not Ramping plunge moves

Or you could keep the smaller stepover and use the "Spiral Gadget" and a profile toolpath instead of a pocket toolpath. Gadget download link.
by adze_cnc
Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:07 pm
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: Enlarge screen view
Replies: 2
Views: 194

Re: Enlarge screen view

Perhaps a screen shot of what you consider to be poor details might help us. Windows has a built-in snipping tool for taking screenshots and saving the image to a file. You can even draw highlights and annotations. The saved image file (png or jpg) can be uploaded as an attachment here. https://yout...
by adze_cnc
Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:59 pm
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: Vcarve Help Troubleshoot
Replies: 3
Views: 191

Re: Vcarve Help Troubleshoot

Good question. I suspect that unless you have a really specific problem and are directed to set it by support that it's an option you can safely ignore.
by adze_cnc
Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:56 pm
Forum: Aspire - General
Topic: Help needed please
Replies: 2
Views: 176

Re: Help needed please

Webby wrote:
Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:27 pm
...square one.

It is possibly a stupid question but can I just add it to the End Mill category and record it's tool type as End Mill...
Effectively the tool is a "square one" and as such an "end mill" is the tool type.
by adze_cnc
Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:31 pm
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: text cutting backwards
Replies: 7
Views: 238

Re: text cutting backwards

Without any comparator in the photo (e.g. a coin) it's difficult to tell whether the image should be rotated 180 degrees making the text "backwards" (flipped through a vertical axis) or UpsideDown (flipped through a horizontal axis). Having rotated the image 180 degrees it looks more natural than it...
by adze_cnc
Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:37 pm
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: text cutting backwards
Replies: 2
Views: 140

Re: text cutting backwards

as Jon said dupe.
by adze_cnc
Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:17 pm
Forum: Aspire - General
Topic: Group Toolpaths from Separate Sheets
Replies: 2
Views: 196

Re: Group Toolpaths from Separate Sheets

If you have an automatic tool changer I can sort of see why you might want to group toolpaths from what are disparate projects. But, if you don't have one why wouldn't saving like cutter toolpaths separately and running them sequentially work? Unless you're zeroing off the machine bed you might have...