Vectric Customer

Another thing to check would be the stepover value for the bit. Larger stepover will reduce cutting time.

Your picture is showing an unusual amount of skipping around from area to area. I've never seen the sketchcarve path do that...in the ones I've set up it seems to have a minimal number of those moves, so that's something different. Might be worth sending to Vectric to understand what's going on ther...

Not having any problems with it here on any of my computers.

I think I've asked this before, but don't remember the answer if there was one. What is the advantage of a TBN over a good sharp v-bit for v-carve type applications like the v-carve inlay? I know there are v-bits that don't come to a sharp point, but it isn't that hard to find ones that do (or at le...

There are 5 main final components (copied around the quadrants) but I also created a couple of intermediate components that got baked in. The 5 components are the center, the 2 leaves on the bottom, 1 corner leaf, and a middle component to fill in the center of the bottom leaves. The intermediate co...

That is exactly the kind of shape Aspire is meant to create. I did this while waiting for a sheet of doors to cut. It would need a little more work to be closer to the original, but it's mostly there.

Yes, the rails themselves are limited to z=0. That can't be changed. But, you can achieve similar things by adding the second sweep or as many additional sweeps as necessary to get the effect you want. For example, what if you wanted to have the two edges undulate differently? In the top version of ...

Sorry, you said concave, not convex. Here's what it looks like concave.

The Vectric software doesn't care about colors when it comes to toolpaths, only layer names. Colors are just to help you visually tell one layer from the other.

You can't do it in a single sweep. Has to be done in 2 sweeps perpendicular to each other. See pictures below. First picture shows the two sweeps separate. Second shows them combined.

The rails on the top sweep are on the long axis of the sweep. The rails on the bottom sweep are on the short axis.

It works on the basis of layer names. General process: 1. Make sure all the layers you want to use are in the file 2. Create a toolpath. At the bottom of the toolpath panel you will see an option for "Vector selection". Click the button marked "Selector". 3. In the Vector Selector window, check the ...

Yes, it's in Aspire.

Not directly, but I did find a workaround. Create your sketchcarve using a neutral background. Preview the toolpath. Save the preview image using the button in the Preview Toolpaths panel. Open a new file, and import the saved image. Use the Trace Bitmap tool to capture vectors from the image (I fou...

Go to Edit | Options, scroll down to General Settings, and then change "Show Additional File Operations" to "Yes". Now your undo and redo arrows are back.

There are other advantages of a drill head. On a 9-position head, you can choose to put other sizes of drills in the "horizontal" slots, for use in things like hinge holes and dowel holes. Otherwise they'd have to take up a position in the tool changer, which reduces the number of tools available in...