Tiling question

[Custom carving]

this is one of my biggest signs yet and I have tried over and over to move the letters around so they are not in the "split". I just can't seem to make it look right. Any suggestions or am I just freaking out about the overlap? or both... ( I had to delete the tool paths to be able to send it, The tile size is 22X44)

[FabLab Wageningen]

Do you want to tile horizontally or vertically ?

What I see is a bit odd (sorry). The top text seems correctly set on a circular vector, the bottom text not. The 'U' in the bottom text seems a bit out of position. Also the two circles are not totally parallel / offset. Is this the good file at all ?

If I were you I would already put a tile border in your design program. Easier to see and work. Did you design this in VCarve Pro ?

Marcel.

[adze_cnc]

To follow up on Marcel's notes (which came in while I was fiddling about). How about this?
 

 

• Blue circle was set at top and bottom of existing text
• From that I noticed "One..." and both of the curved lines of text could be moved left to better centre
• Artwork rotated -3 degrees about the centre within the circle
• Guideline is at 23.25 inches

Rotation helps if the material doesn't have a grain that you to run horizontally (or vertically) with the design.

[Custom carving]

I was called into work so I will try and work on it a little bit more when I get home but I appreciate the suggestions. Marcel, I made the gap larger between the view in a I will fix that also

[Custom carving]

Do you want to tile horizontally or vertically ?

What I see is a bit odd (sorry). The top text seems correctly set on a circular vector, the bottom text not. The 'U' in the bottom text seems a bit out of position. Also the two circles are not totally parallel / offset. Is this the good file at all ?

If I were you I would already put a tile border in your design program. Easier to see and work. Did you design this in VCarve Pro ?

Marcel.

yes I did this in vcarve pro I was trying to manipulate the text to work with the tile and it looked goofy as you say.... Here I tried again this time I didn't try to manipulate anything but I have plenty of text in the tile area. once again in need a tile 22X44

[FabLab Wageningen]

Your new design looks much better,

Steven, obviously, has the right - though somewhat fiddely - solution for you, but I (lazy designer) wondered: is this design not easier to do with 3 horizontal panels ? One with the 'bar & grill' text, one with 'one - 80 - six' and the bottom with 'marquand mo'? No splitting of text at all. Just a thought.

Marcel.

[sharkcutup]

Here is my attempt!

BAR AND GRILL 4.crv

(81.5 KiB) Downloaded 29 times

Sharkcutup

Interesting Suggestion There FABLAB!!!

[Custom carving]

Your new design looks much better,

Steven, obviously, has the right - though somewhat fiddely - solution for you, but I (lazy designer) wondered: is this design not easier to do with 3 horizontal panels ? One with the 'bar & grill' text, one with 'one - 80 - six' and the bottom with 'marquand mo'? No splitting of text at all. Just a thought.

Marcel.

I love how you think!!!!

[Custom carving]

Here is my attempt!

BAR AND GRILL 4.crv

Sharkcutup

Interesting Suggestion There FABLAB!!!

did I mention I still have 10.5? maybe I should just go and bite the bullet and upgrade

[Custom carving]

Here is my attempt!

BAR AND GRILL 4.crv

Sharkcutup

Interesting Suggestion There FABLAB!!!

i had to bite the bullet and upgrade, I didn't want to spend the money right now but isnt that what credit cards are for?

[Custom carving]

Marcel I took your advice and tried vertical tiling since my x axis is too small for the 44 " project. I took and spun the whole thing 90 degrees and tile it at 14.75" and waaaaall ahhhh.

thanks to everyone who contributed....it takes a village sometimes

happy carving

[sharkcutup]

If only I had known, lol!!! SORRY!!!

I still have that version on my laptop computer.
Not anywhere near it at the moment but when and if I remember to I will send it again in that version if you are still interested in seeing it.

Sharkcutup

[Custom carving]

No worries I upgraded

[sharkcutup]

Okay wow!!

You will enjoy the New features that have been added!!!

Sharkcutup

[Custom carving]

My brother talked me into doing a practice piece for another large tiling project I'm working on. I want to try the overlap feature to see how it works before I carve the 24X144 sign. how do you find XY zero when you move the project? just work off the XY zero from the first pass by drawing a line for your starting point? that is how I was going to do it but I wanted to check and see if I'm heading in the right direction before I start carving on $200 worth of lumber..
the 186 bar and grill sign is in glue...