Texture toolpath
Hi
I have a attached screenshot of a texture toolpath simulation. I have been playing with the settings in the settings box bu
t I keep getting these machined dots in random places, I checked as close as I can for specs that might have been selected when I calculate but can find none. any ideas
Bill
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Check for small vectors and check the boundary vectors/letters near the anomolies. Some fonts aren't clean with loops and coincident nodes that causes strange behavior. The Vector Doctor may help.
Hi
I thought about loops and checked with the doctor, what I didn't show as I didn't send a screenshot of the whole work area is that some of the dots are quite far away from the letters or vectors
Bill
Have you tried individually selecting the 'good' vectors one by one and moving them to a new layer? Lasso selection has the undesired effect of selecting the rogue vectors as well.
If you email me your file I'll have a look.
I am wondering, when was the last time you checked for an updated video driver, how old is your video card, what is it also. I don't see any vectors in your photos that would suggest an errant vector, so it just might be a driver issue.
I have had odd issues with my windows 7 machine before the hard disk went poof, so am wondering also you on 7 or 10, when was the last time you did any maintenance on your pc, might have something to do with it. The steps I follow when I start getting odd issues is first blame me (somewhere I screwed up) if I can't find anything do a scan-disk then a defrag then check for updated drivers.............. If none of these the issue fix then I wine (hahahaah), I try same file on another computer if I have the same issue then there could be a code problem. I think I'll play with this today and see if I have the same issue, I'll let you know after (might be some time.
mike
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Bill, have you tried support, man they have been great for me. They are fast at resolving issues and helping we have that little support in the lower rt side of the view port.
Bill,
somethings not right, I got holes, no other vectors, I'll try on windows 10 later, might be a windows 7 thing but you might want to contact support. though I don't have to many holes and I did a negative, so Like I said I'll try on my w 10 later have too many things I need to do right now.
mike
Ok the windows 10 has all the drivers updated, it has a quadro card the windows 7 has a gt1300 or something like that, it does ok but that quadro card is fabulous
The bad news for you (and me too) on the window 7 without a good video card (a quadro), it does ok and that's it, it has it's problems and doesn't do a good job, it's meant to die here soon (microsoft says so) the video card isn't meant for the job we need it for, like the quadro card. I don't know what operating system you are working in (if its windows 7) nor do I know what video card you have. I just know and put it here the quadro card (mine is 5 years old, I think) is the way to go. On the windows 10 it has no holes has no bubbles in any other area but where I put them between vectors unlike the windows 7.
So in conclusion windows 7 (barf)(this is too bad I like it) windows 10 winner (ugg, I really don't like it butt) Quadro video card (yea winner all around winner hip hip hooray, I like these cards (for the most part I have no problem (yet) Guess your video card isn't up to the stuff thats needed, found out neither is mine.
You might want to run this stuff past support to verify.
mike
Hi Mike
Funny you mentioned computer about to die, next morning after I wrote this my work computer would not boot up in the repair shop now, hope they can fix. I was running windows 8, the computer as about three years old. Any way I had abandoned that texture anyway. The run time for that was way to long for the project I am working on. Will look in to quadro video card as I think I will need a new computer at work. May I ask a unrelated question will post separately later. I'm on my home computer which has a version of the Carvco that I use sometimes to work on files from work but I never make cut files I noticed this morning that I have no tools library to make cut files. not even the basic that come with the program. I have read about this many times on the old forums but never really paid attention. any ideas were to find.
Thanks Bill
Usually those machine dots are areas where the size of the tooling is calculated to fit within the vector area.
Easiest way to tell is do another toolpath and double the tool diameter size, if the they disappear that's what it is. If that doesn't work upload your art files so we can figure out what's happening for you
Gary
Gary,
Have some photos for you all with the same bit (now I have never use this toolpath so I thought I would look at it) If you would look and see there isn't a vector for the toolpath to hit these areas it is though, if you're like me, so frigin busy you have little time to rerun the toolpaths which would cause frustration in and of it's self to correct a situation which should never run, now I forgot to get a photo from my windows 10, it runs this perfectly, there are no errant divots, only with the windows 7 with-out the quadro card, so I am assuming that it's either the video card or the operating system that's causing the problem, which I find is interesting, later after I get done visiting my grandchildren I'll rerun this with a larger bit to see if it corrects it.
mike
Bill,
amazon has some cool computers I posted a link once before but here it is again
https://www.amazon.com/stores/node/8200879011?_encoding=UTF8&field-lbr_brands_browse-bin=CPU%20Solutions&ref_=bl_dp_s_web_8200879011
I need to get another one to replace this w7, as for you not having the tool library (i never had that problem) here again I can't stress this enough the support here is fantastic use them, I suspect that it just might be the windows 8 that might be the problem child.
mike
Sorry Bill, I didn't really say that correctly, tired and not thinking late night as my daughter just gave birth to my my second granddaughter.
It doesn't need to have a vector as I stated above, it will do it on a machine relief if the diameter of the tool will fit, without seeing the file this is just a guess of what may be happening, also check the resolution difference between the 7 and 10 machine that maybe a factor as well.
Yes been real busy, not only with training but since becoming a Carveco reseller, support and trainer I have been working hard getting the winter line up going
Gary
Gary,
This is mike, anyway here's some photos from w10, it's at the same resolution as the w7 the only difference this time on the w10 I used a 1/16 inch ball instead of a 1/8 inch, but same result no errant holes from w10, the difference could be the video card, or it just might be the op software (I don't know since I'm not a skilled software engineer, anit any of that as a matter of fact) as you can see no problem come out great as it should.
So, Gary you want a doll cradle, for your special gift from your daughter (mine gave me 8 (I think) so I had to make a few of these things then others wanted, I have a few left, I think.
mike
Thanks Mike, Since I'm running all win10 machines i'm not seeing this issue.
Dolls cradle, I would like a dime for everyone of those things I've built over the years and past on.
Gary
Thanks to you guys for looking into that, Sorry this is belated. I lost my harddrive on that computer the next day a didn't have a chance to continue this subject. Just got my computer back and reinstalling the software
Bill
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