Vectric Customer

I'm teaching a friend how to run my machine and we made this for his wife. Don't mind the antlers thats how he wanted them. I have the dxf's and crv files if anyone wants them. Deer are 18" to top of head ( for scale).

You can always try MDO, it is used for outdoor signs. I hear it stands up to weather fairly well if its painted.

Sorry guys my last file was not acceptable to the site. Hope this file is OK.

I see a lot of pictures of finished projects on the forum, which is great, but it seems not a lot of people post their DXF files. Since I believe that most of us on here do this as a hobby, I think we should share our DXF files. With that being said, here something I whipped up last week. Its a hybr...

A picture of my wooden DIY 4' x 8' Blackfoot v.4 machine and control stand.

Did you scan the emblems? Work with a picture of them? I have Vcarve Pro (pic of them) and have engraved the E-5 emblem and the anchor, they look good, but your 3-D cut is a lot nicer.

Adrian well after several tests making squares i found out that the brush on my vac plate was putting just a slight pressure on my Z axis until it moved and the bristles bent over some. after removing my vac plate the ramping problem is gone. now to figure out some sort of floating vac plate instead...

should i check the "Use the vector start points (don't optimize)" in my tool path setup? now wouldnt that be the simple fix?

If you look at the 3D view in VCarve with the Show 2D previews and toolpaths checked you can see the path the cutter is taking and it's fine. In my experience if the preview in VCarve is correct then the problem is the controller, machine or operator error. The text doesn't look right in that pictu...

Yes Tim that makes a lot of sense thank you. now i need to figure out why on a profile cut it raises up before the end. i have attached a picture of the piece i cut. as you can see the lower portion of each box the bit rose up as it came to the end. i'm pretty sure this is a tool path problem but no...

in Vcarve setting up my tool data base it asked for a plunge rate for each bit. what % of the feed rate should the plunge rate be? or is it set by angle and size of the bit. i dont know. i ask because i was profile cutting squares around letters using a 90 deg 1/4 in bit and at the end of my squares...

I will try that. thanks for you help.

no i haven't. but it shows up level using my 4' level (my table is 4')

my problem is no matter what size i make my carving 4"x 4" or 12" x 12" the carving seems to be deeper on the left side of the piece as you look at it. axis. the Y

I have a DIY CNC machine I built from "Build your own CNC machine", I have Vcarve Pro 6.5 and I use Mach 3. My question is which Mach 3 post processor should I use from the list offered in Vcarve? I have just been using the G code which is a .tap file. It works but my engraving is a little off and I...