Vectric Customer

Gerry Good points, thanks! The problem persists with up and more recently with up cut bits. I also realty planed a new layer off of the top of the spoiler board. To your pint through, maybe the material thickness is slightly different a few inches inward versus where I am measurements from at the ed...

Good morning Michael and thank you. I am setting the Z-axis at 0 by referencing the top of the material with the touch probe. Then in the Vectric Pro software, I input the material thickness. As a point of curiosity, the last cut I even instructed the Vectric program to cut 2 thousand of an inch dee...

Group - On most of my cuts the Z axis does not quite cut through the material. It is about 2 thousandths short of cutting all the way through. Although I set the cutting depth two thousandths deeper than the material thickness, my cuts are still not complete all the way through the material. I am ru...

I started a new six-sided box in Vcarve and believe I corrected the problem as well as found the source. Although I have not cut it out yet as I am waiting on new bits, the computer model in VCarve Pro looks promising. Here is what I learned when designing a six-sided box. The creation of the doveta...

Jim: Thanks for the help. Yes, I agree with your observation about the bottom not being in a "pull state." Consequently, the dovetail may have marginal structural value, but I wanted to do it because it is "cool" and it would add to the mystique of the Christmas gifts that I am making. Yes I am usin...

Thanks Jim

Maybe I now know why I have not seen many six-sided boxes using the dovetail gadget. Most I have seen are only four-sided. I am sure the problem is something to do with the thickness of the material when the pins and tails are calculated.

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This is great thread.

I too want to do some old street and road maps. To this point, where can I find information on how to take a PDF or JPG to digital file to carve them with a CNC router.

Thanks!
BretC

Mark:

OK - will post it here tonight.

Thank you.

Bret C

Randall:

Good idea. What is the best method to then convert from PDF to digital?

Thanks

Bret

Hello: I have a few full-size vintage paper plans to make outdoor Christmas decorations. The plans consist of Santa and elves. I would like to reproduce these decorations using a CNC router. With this in mind, is there a digitization service where I can send the prints to who will digitize them and ...

CrowsWW: Thank you for the tip. I am sure this is somewhere in the documentation, but I missed it. With your tip in mind, I experimented with changing the starting points in the node editing mode. I found that the green arrows designating the starting and ending points must be all pointing the same ...

Group - what causes dovetails and pins to be on the wrong side of the line?

Thanks

Bret C
Neodesha, KS

Adrian: Just curious if the problem with the "Box Creator" gadget not nesting the parts properly in version 9.015 has since been corrected in the latest version of VCarve Pro? I like the simplicity of the Box Creator, but the lack of properly nesting the parts and the huge waste of material that is ...

Martin:

Did you resolve the issue you had in installing a gadget?

I am having the same problem. The files I download for the "Box" gadget does not contain any files with ".vgadget". on the file extension that the Vacarve Pro installer is looking for.

What am I doing wrong?

Bret C