Vectric Customer

The dish component is smaller then your vectors so it tries to cut outside the dish and within the vectors, so you end up with that cut in the outside fringe. See my picture.

Thanks Boomer, sounds good. I'll try and scan the handles on the flat side. Should have less error.
Good to know it's a try and test method. Thanks.

Great job, I love that you added the hops models on top of the sign for a great relief. They really jump out. Nice.

Ok sounds good. I'll go with what I measure and not the scan I suppose. My first try so I'll do it in soft wood first! Thanks!!

I want to take a knife I have and make wooden handles for it. I know folks do this all the time and I have been looking around. I just wonder if anyone can tell me why my knife scan picture doesn't match up with what I measure. I have attached a pic of it here. Is it picture resolution or what is go...

Great work, love the acrylic!!

I use a SMOOTHSTEPPER with Leadshine drives. Mine are AM882 but I think they are outdated now. But they work awesome, digital drives with current reduction when idle. AT least go to their page and look at the drives they sell, they are a good product. I am very happy with mine.

Yes a vinyl mask. Paint it and peel it off right away while still wet. Then no issues. I think it will work fine for you.

Could you not paint, mask, use drag bit, spray clear then remove mask, then paint?? Then the clear would only be in the "etched portions, where you want it anyway.

Maybe it's because on wood the clear coat can soak into something, on plexi it sits and ruins the paint. I was using Krylon clear coat over a mask to seal the cut letters. I found it was shrinking the mask and maiking the resulting paint job look bad as the paint would leak under the now deformed ma...

That's how the motors are meant to run, don't worry about it. Great project!

That might work, but I am very sure you need to put in half the angle as it is the side angle not the whole angle so a 6.2 Deg is entered as 3.1 deg.

It looks like they are not perfect circles either.

No, that looks fantastic. Good stuff, families can be wrong you know...LOL

Oh good to know mobius, thanks. I haven't had any luck with a V carve path as it cut away portions of the top text when cutting the bottom text, but I will try it as an engraving toolpath.