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by mountaincraft
Tue May 05, 2015 5:03 am
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: bake?
Replies: 29
Views: 9980

Re: bake?

and here it is in VCP8
3D plaque back.JPG
by mountaincraft
Tue May 05, 2015 5:02 am
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: bake?
Replies: 29
Views: 9980

Re: bake?

Here it is in C4D wireframe mode
3D plaque back 03.JPG
by mountaincraft
Tue May 05, 2015 5:01 am
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: bake?
Replies: 29
Views: 9980

Re: bake?

Here is the object in C4D
3D plaque back 02.JPG
by mountaincraft
Tue May 05, 2015 4:53 am
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: bake?
Replies: 29
Views: 9980

Re: bake?

Ack, after 7 hours of running a file that should have been a total of about 3, the plaque bowed... It came out really nice, just bowed... almost an 1/8" in 12" And I built up the piece by gluing up several 1.5"-2" pieces, alternating grain... and then let it sit for over a week... surfaced it today ...
by mountaincraft
Tue May 05, 2015 3:35 am
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: bake?
Replies: 29
Views: 9980

Re: bake?

CV setting are as out of the box with Mach 3 install... I don't want to blame the machine or Mach 3, as all other files I've run in the past have not had this issue, and I have not changed settings in Mach 3 for years (except for backlash after I rebuilt the top end last summer).. I've been running ...
by mountaincraft
Tue May 05, 2015 3:22 am
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: bake?
Replies: 29
Views: 9980

Re: bake?

I split the file up into several operations, and I'm running a separate operation now which only has one tool path and that is of a 3D model bought from vector art 3D some time ago... It is running and acting normally without the issue.. So... only two possibilities remain; either it is something th...
by mountaincraft
Tue May 05, 2015 3:19 am
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: bake?
Replies: 29
Views: 9980

Re: bake?

bill565 wrote:Curious as to what it may look like in node edit. It almost sounds like many nodes are a potential if there is jerking and all tight.

Just thinking out loud.
How do you look at the nodes of a 3D file in VCP?
by mountaincraft
Tue May 05, 2015 1:27 am
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: bake?
Replies: 29
Views: 9980

Re: bake?

It's behaving similar to when the CV is turned off, but not quite that extreme... It also has put extra code in there.. like if it has to move from point A to point B without having to change height or direction, just go in straight line, there might be one or several intermediate code points added....
by mountaincraft
Tue May 05, 2015 1:16 am
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: bake?
Replies: 29
Views: 9980

Re: bake?

Like I said, I can see Mach 3 'telling' it do do this... The cursor is moving the exact same way... It's not in the machine, but the code... and it didn't do this before on all the multitudes of 3D files I ran in older versions of VCP... But this new VCP is a whole new animal, that allows the use of...
by mountaincraft
Tue May 05, 2015 12:28 am
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: bake?
Replies: 29
Views: 9980

Re: bake?

By any chance while you were machining did you happen to notice the feed speed? In Mach 3 which a lot of us use, the feed speed is a total speed of all three axis. Maybe your XY axis are slowing down for your Z to catch up. In Mach you are limited to the set speed of the slowest axis. Just a guess,...
by mountaincraft
Mon May 04, 2015 11:12 pm
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: bake?
Replies: 29
Views: 9980

Re: bake?

Is anyone from Vectric monitoring this thread that can shed some light on this?

PS.. I tried using 'smoothing' and then 'baking' the single base model that I made in C4D, but didn't notice much if any perceptible change in the appearance of the model... In anu case it didn't solved the problem...
by mountaincraft
Mon May 04, 2015 11:06 pm
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: bake?
Replies: 29
Views: 9980

Re: bake?

Bake is an Aspire function... Angie Then why did they include it in V Carve Pro? And why did they include it in the manual for V Carve Pro? This problem is still occurring... The program is generating the G CODE to tell the machine to do this.. I'm watching it on screen... I'm watching the cursor s...
by mountaincraft
Mon May 04, 2015 7:33 pm
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: bake?
Replies: 29
Views: 9980

Re: bake?

I think I'm about ready to take another stab at this, and expect even better results....
by mountaincraft
Mon May 04, 2015 7:33 pm
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: bake?
Replies: 29
Views: 9980

Re: bake?

Another cool thing I tried (which was my other question, but I answered it myself), was that on the center piece of the plaque, where I needed more detail, I found that by using creating a boundary just for that part, I could create a second 3D finish tool path, using a 1/16" ball nose (instead of t...
by mountaincraft
Mon May 04, 2015 7:27 pm
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: bake?
Replies: 29
Views: 9980

Re: bake?

Never had the problem with the same 3D elements using 3D Machinist... However, I think I may be onto the problem... My plunge speeds in last nights file were set significantly slower than they had been in previous 3D carvings the old way... So I 'think' the x/y movements were slowing/stopping to wai...