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Leave the paper backing on or cover it with painters tape before you do the carve? You might try an acrylic product and work small areas at a time. Then use a damp cloth wrapped on a block to back the cloth so it doesn't dip into the carve and wick the product out. But that won't work well if you ar...

I did an acrylic photo v-carve and filled with a colored epoxy resin a while back. Posted the results in the photo v-carve gallery viewtopic.php?p=215987#p215987. Not sure if that is what you are looking to do but I'm thinking what ever it is you are after is possible.

Ed

Maybe a hot knife attachment for a wood burning pencil or soldering iron. Grind it down to a shape that you can use?

You beat me to it Highpockets. I have had success doing that by simply importing a dome from the included D&M files and then edit it with the transform objects - select objects size menu and un-checking the link X Y box.
ED

Looks like you nailed it! How is redwood for fuzzys?

Ed

Perhaps something like the DSP controller like Axiom uses?

Ed

Regardless of what the problem is, it is not Vectric software related. Cutting 1/2 inch MDF in a single pass with a 1/4 inch bit is pretty ambitious IMHO. But if you are managing the chip load and evacuation well enough to avoid introducing re-cuts at the cutter-material interface then why not. If t...

That deflection is huge. Is the error consistent in both the x and y axis? I would be looking for machine play when the runout is that large. I agree. I suspect the there may be a fair amount of backlash in the system. Does your control system have backlash compensation capability? If so you might ...

I'm definitely going to follow this thread. I have noticed this too with projects that I have that use a basic template upon which I build a number of variations with a stack of layers. I have learned to just copy and paste the templates over to a new project and limit the variations to just a few w...

It has been a while since I had to calibrate axis movements to I had to do some research for the Mach operating systems. I don't know about Mach 4 but in Mach 3 you select the settings tab and the drop down menu gives you a "steps per unit" option. It is pretty much menu driven and straight forward ...

I wasn't routing anything that was size specific until today In looking at your dimensional discrepancy I find that the error for both is exactly .98958% of the desired size. That tells me that you have a percentage over ride set up in the Mach 4 screen or the Mach 4 software gear ratios are not co...

Wow! that is really good. I had to look several times. That is the wood carve, correct? And then you said you will make the box later. Will that be the Lid of the box? Sure would like to see the end result. I only have Vcarve desktop, which v10 has the toolpath option with V bits.. but this project...

YES! I thought it could be done in VC10. Can you share your setting?

Gary is right in that there is a difference between ball screws and ACME lead screw and the difference is huge under load. Y axis (two ball screws, nema 23’s) to 300 IPM [quote= "Mr.Chips"]X axis ( two start acme rod, nema 23) to 187 IOM[/quote] I assume the Y axis is pushing both the x axis carriag...

Jozua is correct in that I am using the stand alone version of Photo VCarve. I am glad that you posted a screen shot of the VCarve 10 version of the Photo VCarve tool set up screen though. To me, the most important feature you are missing is the line spacing calculation. However it is kind of cool t...