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dealguy11 wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:39 pm

A toolpath that should produce arcs in this situation (I think) is the moulding toolpath.

Should and does.

Hooray for Kyle Ely... Kyle who? I've been doing some experiments with the curve tool and without and I still feel that it is redundant as it existed. The centre of these circles will be the end points for a test curve:   01.png   This a curve created from those points. Note that the actual curve wa...

Yeah. It would seem the small video I linked to demonstrating the Illustrator Curvature tool has disappeared. If I had a mind to I'd send in an explicit request for a replacement of the curve tool with something that behaves more like Curvature for a truly smooth curve and curve creation experience.

Remember that 3D finishing toolpaths stop when the centre of the bit reaches the selected vector boundary + boundary offset. You have a boundary offset of 0 so the bit will not travel deeper than you see. If you make that boundary offset 0..24 you will get the effect you are looking for with the mod...

On the "Design" tab is a section (below Offset and Layout) labelled 3D Model Tools.

Presumably it was moved there so that you don't have to click on the Component Tab then click on the icon in question.

As for the state of your vision only you and your ophthalmologist can answer that.

Bring back draw curve tool. Please. I disagree. That tool rarely produced useful curves that didn't need extensive editing due to the program trying to interpolate between your chosen end points. The changes to the "Draw Line" tool that Vectric made in v11.?? make it behave much like the "Pen" tool...

Define old? When I see a early 1980s Chrysler "K" car with collectors' plate on it I question what a really old vehicle is... You could go directly to "Thingiverse" If you just a broad search for STL files you'll probably get some suspect 3D model sites that merely wrap a Thingiverse link with their...

People really do need to stop using terms like "broken" and "bug" in their post titles. How about "V12 Array Copy Toolpath possible problem" or "Array Copy Toolpath (v12): I'm seeing a strange behaviour"... Is the "Toggle toolpath 3D drawing visible" option (3rd icon in the upper left corner of the ...

That information plus a good 6 inch (15cm) rule to measure the amount of the bit sticking out of the collet goes a long way to avoiding crashes. :D Thanks, Martin, for reminding me that this information exists. I keep forgetting to slow down and hover there and plenty other places in the software......

Jim_in_PA wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:00 pm

but it also means certain features, like tool database sync, online help and some other things

In the Edit > Options section there is a setting to always use local help instead of online.

Because of the horn in the centre of the seat you'll probably also need two overlapping fluting paths.

Everything seems to be a tad bit smaller. Do grade 9 writing teachers still warn against "everything", "all", "everyone knows"? Mine did. Of course, "most things", "it seems that" to me always (oops!) seem to be affected. Both programs on a Windows box set to 100% scale (i.e. no scaling).   9_5 vs ...

We might need an image. The dome below looks quite not transparent:   no transparent.png   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...

I think I know what you have a problem with but it took poking around in the software and not reading anything here. Previous versions of Aspire / VCarve never had the ability to display the 2D vectors on the 3D view. Now it does. And software, being not very bright despite people slinging the terms...

And a picture of the exact tool (material and machine) from 11.5?