Help !!! . jagged letters in Vcarve

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Brandon Collins
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Help !!! . jagged letters in Vcarve

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New to Vcarve and on my fist machine run using Vcarve toolpath the letters are not smooth but jagged what can cause this. this is the toolpath thats being exported to the machine from the toolpath viewer


Any help would be great, thanks
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Adrian
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Re: Help !!! . jagged letters in Vcarve

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So that's the toolpath preview in VCarve?

Which font is it? Zoom in and look at the vectors that make up the font to see if they are smooth.

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What Preview Simulation Quality are you using?

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Re: Help !!! . jagged letters in Vcarve

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after some messing around turns out its the font changed different font issue solved. Am surprised thought all fonts would be smooth

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You'd be surprised. Many fonts which look great in type are often awful when used in the CNC world with loops and jaggys.

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