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by 4DThinker
Sun Sep 03, 2023 2:17 pm
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: who can tell me how to cut inlay into taper?
Replies: 20
Views: 2026

Re: who can tell me how to cut inlay into taper?

I'm using version 10.515 of Aspire, and don't plan to upgrade, so a DXF file (which you can export from VCarve) would be best.
I can't open the CRV3D file.
4D
by 4DThinker
Sat Sep 02, 2023 7:38 pm
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: who can tell me how to cut inlay into taper?
Replies: 20
Views: 2026

Re: who can tell me how to cut inlay into taper?

One last (hopefully) question. Do you want the tip of the sword pointing toward the big 1.24"d end or the small ,84" end?
4D
by 4DThinker
Sat Sep 02, 2023 7:07 pm
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: who can tell me how to cut inlay into taper?
Replies: 20
Views: 2026

Re: who can tell me how to cut inlay into taper?

I can save out my Aspire file as a VCarve file, so you should be able to open it with the toolpath still in it as in the file I saved above. You'll have to save the toolpath using your post processor. This is a theory I haven't encountered before, so we'll see how well it works. I usually set the or...
by 4DThinker
Sat Sep 02, 2023 1:56 pm
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: who can tell me how to cut inlay into taper?
Replies: 20
Views: 2026

Re: who can tell me how to cut inlay into taper?

I'll add that the inlay toolpath doesn't do mapping to 3D, but the pocket toolpath will. I did try to do this, although without your sword vector, and saved as a Vcarve file. The model I made to make the toolpath slope didn't save, but the sloped pocket did toolpath did. If you can post a .DXF of yo...
by 4DThinker
Sat Sep 02, 2023 1:23 pm
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: who can tell me how to cut inlay into taper?
Replies: 20
Views: 2026

Re: who can tell me how to cut inlay into taper?

Do you plan on cutting the pocket as a rotary (wrapped) toolpath job, or as a simple 3-axis toolpath but mounted on the rotary axis? As I think Vcarve can work with a 3D model it should have the ability to map a toolpath to a 3D surface, If that is true then I'd create a simple slopped plane (wedge)...
by 4DThinker
Sun Aug 20, 2023 6:32 pm
Forum: Aspire - General
Topic: Multi sided rotary with vcarve on each face?
Replies: 4
Views: 884

Re: Multi sided rotary with vcarve on each face?

Assuming the shape is 6 sided, for example. 360/6 = 60 degrees. So the facets would be at 0,60,120,180,240,and 300. Doing this from what may be an aging memory, but I think the G-code commands to rotate the A axis would be:
G0A60
G0A120
G0A180
G0A240
G0A300

4D
by 4DThinker
Sun Aug 20, 2023 4:04 pm
Forum: Aspire - General
Topic: Need simple help
Replies: 12
Views: 1338

Re: Need simple help

Did some playing with the bowl challenge. It will work as I described above so long as the 1/4 circle profile doesn't ask the moulding toolpath to collide at the center of the bowl. Even cropping 1/16" from the bottom of the arc will work. Smaller amounts start to generate the "no toolpath created" ...
by 4DThinker
Sun Aug 20, 2023 2:10 pm
Forum: Aspire - General
Topic: Need simple help
Replies: 12
Views: 1338

Re: Need simple help

You can use the use the moulding toolpath for all but the center 1/8" of the bowl shape which you could easily sand off. I left off the clearance part of the moulding toolpath so the file would be small enough to upload. I also cut the circles in half so the moulding toolpath wouldn't balk at cuttin...
by 4DThinker
Sun Aug 20, 2023 4:58 am
Forum: Aspire - General
Topic: Need simple help
Replies: 12
Views: 1338

Re: Need simple help

Use the modelling tools. I couldn't import the file, but it is simply a model of the block, with a model of the bowls subtracted from it. All that was need was two 5" circles to make the bowl shapes, and a rectangle of the block to make the block. Two bowls model.jpg Started out trying to use the mo...
by 4DThinker
Sun Aug 20, 2023 2:47 am
Forum: Aspire - General
Topic: Multi sided rotary with vcarve on each face?
Replies: 4
Views: 884

Re: Multi sided rotary with vcarve on each face?

Yes, although you'll need to be able to send g--code commands to your CNC to rotate the rotary axis between each vCarve cut. It is falrly easy to use the moulding toolpath to facet a cylinder first, but don't use the vcarve toolpath during the wrapping setup. Then create a regular 3-axis project, a ...
by 4DThinker
Sun Aug 20, 2023 2:32 am
Forum: Aspire - General
Topic: Hello All... I have a question?
Replies: 2
Views: 721

Re: Hello All... I have a question?

You can use the moulding toolpath. How long from the end do you want the taper to start, and what diameter to you want it to end up at? I typically start with a side view section view, then draw a vector that starts on the outer diameter and ends at the inner diameter. Then across the unwrapped area...
by 4DThinker
Wed Aug 16, 2023 3:54 pm
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: Cutting glass
Replies: 6
Views: 805

Re: Cutting glass

Never tried it. How about square or octagonal frame, with a wood face that has a round hole in it. Put a square piece of picture glass behind the hole.
by 4DThinker
Fri Aug 11, 2023 5:09 pm
Forum: Aspire - General
Topic: Wood Movement
Replies: 4
Views: 950

Re: Wood Movement

I get a quarterly newsletter from a wood technology school. Name of the paper: "Wood Moves". Lost a job once as a sacrifice thanks to a subcontractor making a design change to simplify production of a door sign I had designed. This isn't a complaint though as that led me to a 40+ year career as a co...
by 4DThinker
Tue Aug 01, 2023 7:31 pm
Forum: VCarve - General
Topic: Box Joints V-Desktop
Replies: 11
Views: 1256

Re: Box Joints V-Desktop

Do you have a way to clamp boards vertically to cut joinery on the ends? Once you get that figured out it is fairly easy to replicate what all the available dovetail and box joint jigs are out there. Just takes a little drafting skill and a good understanding of the slope of dovetail bits and what t...
by 4DThinker
Mon Jul 31, 2023 2:22 pm
Forum: Aspire - General
Topic: How to radius the upper edge of a pocket.
Replies: 14
Views: 2490

Re: How to radius the upper edge of a pocket.

A bit more info would be helpful Bottom of pockets can be radiused with a ball end bit profile pass, or the moulding toolpath using a ball end bit. A radius on the tops edge could also be done with the moulding toolpath or a profile pass using a roundover bit made for CNC use. (No bearing on the rou...