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by Mark Jones
Wed Mar 22, 2023 3:22 am
Forum: Aspire - General
Topic: Pine Wood Derby
Replies: 17
Views: 9211

Re: Pine Wood Derby

My Derby Car is in clamps on the kitchen table it's a bit cold out in the garage tonight. I used one of the derby car models on this site and stretched it and mirrored it and then carved it this afternoon. I bought Aspire about a month ago and have just started doing 3d modeling. I only did the side...
by Mark Jones
Mon Mar 20, 2023 3:17 pm
Forum: Aspire - General
Topic: Pine Wood Derby
Replies: 17
Views: 9211

Re: Pine Wood Derby

dustybugger wrote:
Thu Dec 29, 2011 1:27 am
You may need to touch this up a bit. This baby scoots!
Made me laugh.
by Mark Jones
Tue Feb 07, 2023 3:59 am
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: chess pieces
Replies: 7
Views: 1337

Re: chess pieces

The link you had left I was not able to open it up. I did a search for Milo Scott continuous turning and looked at a few videos. With no rotary axis on plans for the future I will use the split and glue them together method first. Glued up the maple and walnut today. Will sand a surface flat and loa...
by Mark Jones
Mon Feb 06, 2023 6:20 pm
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: chess pieces
Replies: 7
Views: 1337

Re: chess pieces

I looked at the pieces on thingy verse and found a set made by a program call scad. The Author had split the 3d pieces in half so I was able to import the King, Queen, Bishop, Knight and Pawns with just a few key strokes. I set my z to 1" and imported these files through the import feature. I am jus...
by Mark Jones
Thu Jan 26, 2023 3:31 am
Forum: Aspire - General
Topic: Hum...why is this doing this. Create Shape
Replies: 4
Views: 768

Re: Hum...why is this doing this. Create Shape

Excellent! You guys already taught me a bunch today. Things you all take for granted are like a new fence post to me. :oops: This is the first time I have created a 3d object from scratch well just by looking at a patch and making the original vectors anyway. Since earlier today the file for downloa...
by Mark Jones
Wed Jan 25, 2023 11:33 pm
Forum: Aspire - General
Topic: Hum...why is this doing this. Create Shape
Replies: 4
Views: 768

Re: Hum...why is this doing this. Create Shape

Very good. I had ran vector validater on the 2 vectors and they showed no problems. However I ran a vcarve on the vector and it showed one open vector as you pointed me to. I then used the weld, join, create line, create arc tools and it cleared it up and I can now the create shape tool works. Thank...
by Mark Jones
Wed Jan 25, 2023 10:21 pm
Forum: Aspire - General
Topic: Hum...why is this doing this. Create Shape
Replies: 4
Views: 768

Hum...why is this doing this. Create Shape

Ok. Here is a file I am working on. It's a Royal Ranger Emblem that I use to promote Royal Rangers (Church Boyscout type program) is a copyright emblem. I don't sell my stuff and we have a use if we follow guidelnes. So to make some cool boxes and things for young men of all ages I just bought Aspir...
by Mark Jones
Thu Jan 12, 2023 3:37 pm
Forum: Aspire - General
Topic: desktop to Aspire
Replies: 9
Views: 1329

Re: desktop to Aspire

I agree. To charge for my services would be considerably more. The ability to donate it as a gift of my time and efforts in many ways is better than pay for services. (I have done this for many years as a Church Scout Leader in Royal Ranger Ministry) The cedar boards were cut from Trees on our Campg...
by Mark Jones
Wed Jan 11, 2023 11:32 pm
Forum: Aspire - General
Topic: desktop to Aspire
Replies: 9
Views: 1329

Re: desktop to Aspire

A few days ago I just updated to Aspire from Vcarve Pro. 3 years ago I started with Desktop as it came with my Shark HD510. As the hundreds of projects have flowed through my CNC experience as I learned and became comfortable with each version I found as I grew in my projects that I wanted to do mor...
by Mark Jones
Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:43 pm
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: Plate Production Tool is always offset from center.
Replies: 13
Views: 1238

Re: Plate Production Tool is always offset from center.

Thanks once again Adrian. I copied Charlie at Vectric to this forum link.

You all are the best.

Thanks.
by Mark Jones
Mon Jan 09, 2023 3:12 pm
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: Plate Production Tool is always offset from center.
Replies: 13
Views: 1238

Re: Plate Production Tool is always offset from center.

Thanks for the tip. I did that last night and they responded today and after some more testing I could not reproduce it again. Even loaded up another file from the same time frame and it worked perfectly as well. So as they used to say on Saturday Night Live as the rant went on .... "never mind" GRI...
by Mark Jones
Mon Jan 09, 2023 3:01 am
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: Plate Production Tool is always offset from center.
Replies: 13
Views: 1238

Re: Plate Production Tool is always offset from center.

Late to this conversation, but a bug was introduced into this function in the last dot release of v10.5 and doesn't appear to have been fixed in v11. I've raised this issue to Vectric support. It's still in the Aspire Plate Production code. I just upgraded today to Aspire and found it wasn't coded ...
by Mark Jones
Mon Jan 09, 2023 2:59 am
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: Plate Production Tool is always offset from center.
Replies: 13
Views: 1238

Re: Plate Production Tool is always offset from center.

I just upgraded to Aspire 11.504 from Vcarve Pro 11.504. I am so excited to start editing 3d models. HOWEVER, one of our Pinewood Derby Races is coming up and they ordered 14 plaques carved out of cedar. Excited to use my new Aspire I loaded the plaque fiile from vcarve pro and proceeded to update t...
by Mark Jones
Fri Dec 09, 2022 5:15 pm
Forum: VCarve - Tips and Tricks
Topic: Vacuum Jig with 5 areas of vacuum
Replies: 17
Views: 2022

Re: Vacuum Jig with 5 areas of vacuum

After a week of testing and working with it. I found out that HDPE is the better choice. It's a bit more expensive but when you add in the glues and the sealers to this project the HDPE at $67.00 for a 3/4" x 24"x 24" is a better value. The PVC Trim boards have a varying rate of allowing vacuum air ...
by Mark Jones
Mon Dec 05, 2022 7:42 pm
Forum: VCarve - Tips and Tricks
Topic: Vacuum Jig with 5 areas of vacuum
Replies: 17
Views: 2022

Re: Vacuum Jig with 5 areas of vacuum

PVC glue for regular pvc pipe. It worked well on a repair on my other pvc jig. The pvc trim board is not poreus. They work well for this application. Here is the vcarve Pro file with the jigs in it. I added another 24x24 jig this morning that has 1" squares and 4 vacuum ports. https://drive.google.c...