Zoom in and select a star which must be edited and the outline by clicking or dragging to select the former, the control-clicking on the latter (it is important that the star have a solid orange line indicating selection, while the outline should have a dashed appearance indicating it is the key object on top):
Select each star in turn and assign a V Carve toolpath — I would suggest a 90 degree endmill to limit how deeply they are cut.
Then select the seal and assign a V Carve toolpath (having grouped this above would likely make this easier) — a 60 degree endmill should preserve the detail better.
but shows one oddity — the stripes on the globe being carved rather than the surrounding area — this is usually caused by a reversed or overlapping path, in this case, the undeleted star.
Newbie here so go easy on me please! lol. I’ve downloaded and ran the above program with the current material dimensions listed for the tutorial (14 3/16 x 10 9/16). How do I duplicate the same thing on a piece of material measuring 19 x 14? Struggling with scaling. Thanks in advance for your help!
It allows me to download but I cant open this file even in inkscape keeps saying unable…it opens your (.c2d) files fine bit not that zip any suggestions?
Repeat for the lightning bolt, and drag both into register with the originals (snap to node will help to line things up) and then select the lightning bolt duplicate, and the duplicate 9 (the latter will have a dashed highlight) and do Boolean Subtraction:
Next, we need to notch the lightning bolt at the top — to do that, we’ll need a shape with the upper right edge of the counter of the 9.
Select the counter of the 9 and duplicate it and drag it back into registration with the original.
Draw a shape which encompasses the part of the lightning bolt which we wish to remove, select it and shift-click on the counter of the 9 and do a Boolean subtraction to notch it first:
Make one more duplicate of the lightning bolt, click on the counter of the 9 and shift-click on the duplicate lightning bolt and do a Boolean subtraction:
Unfortunately it is composed using SVG features (arrays) which Carbide Create doesn’t parse. The solution is to open it in Inkscape, save out as a PDF, then reopen and resave.
Then it’s just a matter of deleting what isn’t needed and Boolean unioning the stars to fix them and changing the red stripes from being an overlaid background, and the stripes adjacent to the union from being overlaid by it: