CNC Shark Forum

There is more than one way to create the “stacked letter” effect in a carving. There is no fast way of carving it. This is the “bitmap geometry” method: 1. To start, you need to create a raster (bitmap) art file with the text you wish to carve. 2. Create the “background” text in a solid high contras...

I’m sure rockler / nwa gave the price increase a lot of thought. I’m not in the know but I bet business is pretty good and they can get it. As for the comparisons, the metal frame and linear motion components should be more rigid than the shark. That doesn’t mean they are, unless you test them you d...

Used to use visual cadd a lot when generic cadd was killed, I think I was at version 4 last. I ultimatly found something more compatible to my generic cadd brain, general cadd. I'm surprized VC is still around, gladd to see it. The best part is the (generic cadd) 2-letter command interface, very eff...

Your lines are not joined. Select all the lines, use the tool that looks like a loop with 5 yellow dots on it, then do your offset.

With the join vectors tool you might have to play with the "tolerance" value to get it to work on your specific vectors.

PMB
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Are you talking about putting text on top of some other text with them at different heights?

PMB
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It’s pretty easy to do, the strategy depends upon what exactly you are doing. In the case of a 3d cut. There is more than one way to do it but you don’t want your ‘first’ path to go all the way down to the finish depth, hold it off a little; like 0.01” (meaning 0.01” less than the intended depth). A...

Unless you have some Z curves in there I didn't see, you'll be a lot better off with a vcarve process.

Even if so, you can still do the outside with vcarve, or cut2d for that matter.

PMB
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If I understand you correctly, you will need to define a tool path for that. Could be a pocket or profile but you want to run an end mill around the perimeter to create that “tenon”. There are some gotchas with what I describe. If you just use an end mill, that will leave a noticeable step, maybe th...

You start with your materials and overhead. Materials are easy to figure out, relatively speaking so is overhead, you just need to make sure you actually include everything in it. By that, this isn’t just the cost of electricity and consumables, it also factors in the cost of all your equipment and ...

To “create” any special profile you need to draw the right side the cutter diameter (don’t draw the shank) and then tell vetric that’s what the profile is. You select the geometry first, it must meet certain criteria Try and assign a tool path “Select” a tool Select “new” and enter other parameters ...