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Here's a starting place. I created a base "cone" component using a 2-rail sweep, then created a few "straw" components, which are placed on top of the cone with a combine mode of Merge. I rotated and stretched the straws as necessary to more or less fill in the space. It needs some more work to get ...

Further, VCarve will only put the point of a v-bit on the line if you tell it to. For the 3 most used toolpaths: 1. Profile toolpath. If you run a profile path with a v-bit and specify either Outside/Left or Inside/Right rather than On, then it will place the bit one one side or the other. If you sp...

No. On both pockets and vcarve cuts, VCarve moves the bit away from the edge the required amount given the depth so that the edge vector is respected. So, on a shallow vcarve toolpath (where the border vectors are close together) the tip of the bit will cut closer to the line than a deeper vcarve.

Most of the straight lines can be done with pocketing toolpaths. The row of beads can be done with the standard dome and flat rectangle components from your clipart library. The blossoms are a bit more of a challenge. Perhaps someone could make you one or two (for variation) and save as stl files, w...

And if you don't want to do all the flipping and registering, you could just cut it from 2 pieces of thinner material and epoxy them together.

As far as bar codes on the setup sheet, I think perhaps technically the answer is "yes", but I think you'd have to edit the lua code that creates the setup sheet, load a barcode font, and make a variable to hold the value you want to put on the sheet. That's just a guess, though. As far as automatic...

Moulding toolpath will do it. See example. It's nearly invisible, but there is a .001" circle in the center that serves as the rail for the molding toolpath. The bigger circle is just to look at, to prove the toolpath stays within it.

Are you sure z0 is set to the top of the material at the machine? It has to be set that way both in VC and on the controller. If your material is set with z0 at the surface in VC, but is set to the bed of the machine in your controller then you would get the behavior you're seeing. The reason it sta...

Since you can only cut a moulding toolpath on the outside of a closed vector, that vector has to define the inside of the profile is the simplest way to look at it. You can usually cut on either side of an open vector by changing the direction of the vector. You might say "Aha! I can cut the closed ...

John's advice is right on in making sure the sweep vector is oriented correctly. Also, to make the moulding toolpath end at the outside perimeter of your piece, you need to create a new rail vector by offsetting the perimeter vector inward by the width of the sweep. The moulding profile will go on t...

Sending it to support@vectric.com is the first thing to do in a situation like this. If the software does something different in a standard function from one release to the next, then that's the best way to get resolution as soon as possible.

I don't understand your statement about picking the surfaces to toolpath. I use the moulding toolpath nearly every day and, for the most part, only toolpath surfaces I want to cut. There's too much to do to allow the machine to air-cut. Sometimes you do have to put a small piece of geometry on the s...

Looks like a question to send to support@vectric.com.

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