Thank you! Aspire is built to directly interface with vcarve, correct? I have read that exporting from shapr to vcarve creates lots of problems with the vectors duplicating and intersecting to such an extent that it is too complicated to clean up. I have vcarve but not Aspire,have you exported directly from shapr to vcarve successfully without having to go through Aspire? Thank you again
Again, thank you so much. Shapr looks amazing to me and I am considering it to design wood furniture that has carving elements such as scrolls, curves, and graphic etc. Buying the iPad for shapr is the issue for me, and I just want to be certain that shapr will interface well with Vcarve as we had someone send us a project made in shapr and after importing into vcarve there were a lot of problems with the vectors and I have read of similar issues from other users, but it sounds like you have had success in this area. Very grateful for your replies
A regular vcarve touches both sides of a line. The wider the line the deeper the vcarve goes. With advanced vcarve the end mill cuts out to a depth limit and then the vee bit cuts along the perimeter also limiting depth to defined limit. Vee bits are lousy at pocketing large areas. You could end up with a deep trench in a regular vcarve. The bottom of the trench will be a vee but can ruin a carve by cutting through a shallow box top.
A simple vcarve only goes a deep as the width of the path. So for small letters if the vee cutter can touch the sides of both lines that is a deep as it goes. When using simple vcarve use stock bottom as depth so get maximum depth. Limiting v cut depth is overridden by the width of the lines you are cutting.
Hello we are new to lightburn and laser itself. we designed a rummy game on lightburn. we will be burning all the text and images of the game onto wood using lightburn. we then want to drill the peg holes and cut in card pockets using our cnc router. Is there a way to save what we did in lightburn into a different format like .BMP, .JPEG, GIF, TIF, TIFF or some other format so I can transfer it to vectric vcarve pro. thank you
Hello Jeff. yeah when I downloaded lightburn I was quite impressed on the amount of different buttons that there were for a $40 program, compared to $700 for vcarve. My wife will be using our laser more than I will so she has been studying lightburn a lot more than I have. I imagine that I will be moving over to using lightburn more as time goes on. But for the moment I probably stick with vcarve at least until things slow down a little here. thank you
My boss in work is trying to teach me vcarve in work on our downtimes but these are too irregular for me to retain. Is their something similar i could download at home that would help me get my head around cnc programs?
So I've read several threads and have used various ways to approach conversion of a fusion 360 file to dxf or something readable for vcarve (we have a shopbot which we primarily use vcarve for). Basically I found a solution on youtube that seems reasonable: projecting the sketch face of each component to save as a dxf. However, this is not entirely working. If there is an easier way, please let me know. Otherwise, please help me and point out anything I may have done incorrectly.
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