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- Sat Feb 06, 2021 6:14 am
- Forum: Aspire - Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Anyone doing epoxy inlays successfully?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 48077
Re: Anyone doing epoxy inlays successfully?
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...
- Thu Sep 03, 2020 4:07 am
- Forum: Aspire - General
- Topic: Honoring a Hero
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2824
Re: Honoring a Hero
An honor to be asked - you did a terrific job. Well done.
- Sat Mar 23, 2019 5:59 am
- Forum: Aspire - Tips and Tricks
- Topic: XY Datum Offset
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9514
Re: XY Datum Offset
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 ...
- Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:00 am
- Forum: VCarve - General
- Topic: Tilling longer than my machine
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1851
Re: Tilling longer than my machine
Are your tiles 'too big"? As in too long for your machine.
- Sun Dec 16, 2018 6:37 am
- Forum: Aspire - Gallery
- Topic: Church Plaque
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3237
Re: Church Plaque
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!
For something that fine of detail, you should always surface your board first before you carve. The board needs to be perfectly flat!
- Sun Oct 07, 2018 6:51 am
- Forum: VCarve - General
- Topic: setting depth pass's
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6218
Re: setting depth pass's
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.
- Sun Oct 07, 2018 6:48 am
- Forum: VCarve - General
- Topic: cutting out small parts
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6439
Re: cutting out small parts
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...
- Sun Oct 07, 2018 6:31 am
- Forum: Aspire - General
- Topic: V Bit carving
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10556
Re: V Bit carving
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...
- Sun Aug 19, 2018 4:36 am
- Forum: VCarve - General
- Topic: Strange tool path
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2433
Re: Strange tool path
Perhaps open vectors in the text. That will do some strange things.
- Sun Jun 10, 2018 3:59 am
- Forum: Aspire - General
- Topic: getting an error message i don't understand
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5483
Re: getting an error message i don't understand
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...
- Thu Mar 29, 2018 5:54 am
- Forum: VCarve - General
- Topic: Blood/Juice Groove in Cutting Board
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3436
Re: Blood/Juice Groove in Cutting Board
Run a .5 ball nose 3/8 deep. you may be close to what you want or need.
- Sun Jan 28, 2018 7:20 am
- Forum: VCarve - General
- Topic: Which tool do I need
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11992
Re: Which tool do I 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...
- Wed Jan 24, 2018 5:56 am
- Forum: VCarve - General
- Topic: Which tool do I need
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11992
Re: Which tool do I need
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.
- Mon Jan 22, 2018 10:51 pm
- Forum: Aspire - General
- Topic: First Tiling Project
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2442
Re: First Tiling Project
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 ...
- Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:46 am
- Forum: Aspire - General
- Topic: First Tiling Project
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2442
First Tiling Project
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...