Vectric Customer

Let's say when I am in Aspire I set my Data XY position to center of work area, then I would set my piece of wood on the machine and set machine 0 to center of XY of wood. If I worked from corner of Data XY position then I would set machine up to that, from your first question I wondered if you had ...

"I create the rectangle to size and center to my sized work piece...
The mill returns to zero coordinates so not losing steps and I zero out to the corner of the stock..."

Are you setting both your work piece and mill to center or corner

Have you checked your motor steps are correct, tell it to move to ..... and measure it has moved that far, if not setup your motors.

Is it off on both X & Y

Phill

Circular Array works for me, I created a circle and offset another one put a line at 12 O/clock between the two, circle array Rotation centre X0, Y0, number of items 360 degrees Total angle.

Phill

Forgive me if I am missing something are the two pieces to slide into each other, should they be as:
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Try shortening the tabs looks like it might be cutting to the extent of the tabs

Phill

Hi, I think you are on the wrong track with Inventor for cabinet work, you are going a long way round to get to the finished part, Inventor is mostly for 3D solids saved as STL's and others, I used to use AutoCad to create 2D DXF's and Isometric drawings but after getting Vcarve Pro I started drawin...

Thanks guys for the advise, to explain a little better I had been trying to cut the cove into an edge in stone my problem is I can only do it in very small passes do to the nature of the stone being very abrasive and time consuming I was looking for a quicker way to do it. Have also tried to extrude...

Is there a gadget that would put a quarter circle chamfer cutting down (not a radius round over) around the inside of a box.

Phill

You need to create a vector around the part you want to cut, select the part go to Model select Create vector boundry, select the part and the vector go to Finishing toolpath click on Selected vector make any other change then calculate you should be good to go.

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The main Memorial for the Fleet Air Arms was cut in 2009 and has been ongoing with an oval of 34 plaques to the different Assoscations, HMS Eagle & HMS Illustrious being cut in 2013

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I'll try to.

the Ally is in the form of a dome. The crests in stone stand about 1/4" to 3/8" proud of the face of the stone

Phill

Hi, I would like to make a military badge in aluminium, about 3" high, 2.5" width and .5" depth. I have never used aluminium before so could someone give me info on bits, speeds and anything else I should know. Thanks in advance. Dave Hi Dave, I cut UK military crests as a 2 1/2D relief meaning (th...

You need to check the placements of the circles I have just run your files and there is a difference between the two files, 1st hole & 4th in each file is correct to each other 2nd & 3rd are out of position.

Phill