Vectric Customer

The other issue I'm seeing is the same thing that I'm trying to address now, that is the wood is never completely flat... This is why you should ALWAYS surface your workpiece before starting the carve. Only way to ensure your board is flat to your machine. Doesn't take a lot of time, and well worth...

An honor to be asked - you did a terrific job. Well done.

When I'm starting a job with a V-bit then I skip the offset and just use the corner. I visually align the tip of the bit with the board corner. I'll do this for any bit. If I need to zero off on the corner or the center, I just slip a v-bit in and center, then put in the bit I'm using and then set ...

Are your tiles 'too big"? As in too long for your machine.

It looks really great!

For something that fine of detail, you should always surface your board first before you carve. The board needs to be perfectly flat!

Don't use V-Carve, but in Aspire, you set the number of passes you want to cut, and it will determine the depth of each (pass) cut depending on the total depth of cut.

I use green masking tape (2" if project allows) and CA glue. It is worth trying! Clean spoil board, (no dust etc), put tape down and rub it down Clean back of board, put on tape and rub it down well also. Run a small bead of CA glue on the tape on the spoil board, and spray the back of the other pie...

If you are using a True Type font (you didn't specify), why do you set a depth and start below the surface? The machine should cut a font to the proper depth for the bit being used. The V bit will cut to the edge of the font, thereby causing it to be narrow to wide as needed in some fomts. I don't s...

Perhaps open vectors in the text. That will do some strange things.

I believe that if you are working in the drawing tab, but 'accidentally' click into the modeling tab and click something (anything) there and then go back to the drawing tab, Aspire thinks you still have an operation going on in the modeling tab and won't let you save. I think that may be what's hap...

Run a .5 ball nose 3/8 deep. you may be close to what you want or need.

My thoughts are regardless of a "cut depth" or "start depth" (2 different things) I would find it hard to believe that the font he chose (which ever one it is) would cut to .2 depth. You would have to pick exactly the right size (height) of font to get a .2 depth, as the depth depends on the size of...

And if you use a start depth (of .2 as stated) it will 'force' the letters to carve deeper, (machine thinking the surface of the work is .2 lower than it actually is) possibly causing them to run together, especially on smaller fonts.

Thanks everyone. Pretty much as I suspected so glad about that. My slab is 7' x 20" live edge so thought I would mount it on a piece of 1/2 mdf 2 feet wide by the 8 foot length, and then I can move that against my straight edge I have on my table. Hopefully it should be pretty close. I'll try it in ...

I am attempting my first tiling job on a customer's piece of wood and would like to ask a couple of questions to see if I'm on track. What I've done... (I'm using Aspire 8.5xx) - I've watched the Vectric videos - read the help section in Aspire - Looked on u-tube - Ran a simulation - I think So my q...