Adrian Walker

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3. Doubts about crossing over...

I bought into carveco this month and it is good software and a big improvement on my artcam 2015s2 but hopefully the price won't increase too much as that will stop be from keeping it up to date......

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• Edited 26 April 2019 07:36
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3. create wavy V carve effect

Hi  thankyou for your replies,  is there a way to use use a champher tool to run along a vector with the Z undulating between a minimum and maxim z depth along the line? I realise i could possibly ...

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• Created 29 November 2019 16:29
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3. create wavy V carve effect

Hi Mike thankyou for your reply,  i will have a try to see if i can replicate that... although i was hoping it could be done with a simple V carve tool, which would make machining simple and quick ...

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• Edited 27 November 2019 08:06
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3. export as an stl file

Hi  mike thankyou for your help.  the table leg was just in a video i found i was using it to show that it had the save button in the export section where as in my carveco there was no save button....

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• Created 10 August 2019 09:03
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3. turning a simple bitmap into a nice 3d form demo

Hi Mike thankyou for your input. as you say i need to play and use my imagination.  I find the tools in carveco a bit "different" compared to modelling in a 3d cad package but i will get used to it...

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• Created 02 August 2019 07:46
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3. v-carve engraving text with roughing passes

Hi thankyou for your responses I will investigate these option on the next job :-)

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• Created 13 June 2019 06:55
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3. v-carve engraving text with roughing passes

Hi just to add i used to use smart engrave to get the neat lines at the back but if i select rough tools then it takes away from these lines i.e the engraving cutter doesn't cover the back surface ...

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• Created 05 June 2019 15:59
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3. 2D Rest Machining

Hi Leighton, Thank you for your reply. I am familiar with the Area Clearance toolpath, but I didn't realise it could pick out the details like this.  Do I still need to run a Profile after to clean...

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• Created 29 April 2019 08:20
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3. Can't delete nodes

It looks like it was due to the grouped curves. If I ungroup each single letter, then it seems to work fine.

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• Created 26 April 2019 18:49
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3. setting bitmap image rotation scale and datum

Thank you Brady that explains the process well :-)

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• Created 26 April 2019 17:27
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