Community challenge #23: The Special One (closed)

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

One of the big things for signage is multi-layer V carves. For folks who don’t have a BitSetter, here’s how to do them:

Could use some guidance on creating a carve

I’ve been using a different hobby cnc machine with it’s own software for a number of years. The attached picture is an example of a plaque that I create with this software and machine. I am trying to decide between purchasing a Shapeoko XXL or a X-Carve 1000x1000. I’ve gone through all the pros and cons of each machine. I’ve done a ton of reading on both machines forums. The “usability” of the base software that comes with each machine will play a part in my decision. I’ve used both Carbid…

and Fenrus did some instructions on this as well:

Multi-layer Carbide Create "Advanced V Carve"

I was going to submit this to @Julien’s contest however I licensed the original SVG so I wouldn’t be able to post the original source files. The multi-color original was which I turned into multiple layers of each being a V-Carve with a max depth, and then I cut it out with a 1/4" regular bit (#201) and a 60 degree V bit (#302) on a 12"x3"x0.25" piece wood [IMG_20200307_163336] The details worked out amazing: [IMG_20200307_163324] real bridge: [image…

and for folks who are fully up-to-date:

Making a stacked-text sign using the new layer feature in Carbide Create (version 521+)

The folks at Carbide3D announced a new beta feature in Carbide Create: Layers. [PXL_20210515_155150934] This tutorial gives this new feature a spin using the beta version, to make a stacked-text sign. I’ll try to make this an entry-level tutorial (screenshots for every small step) for those who are relatively new to CNC and want to make their own stack text signs. For the example I’ll stack “your” on top of “text here”… since that’s boring in general you should replace that with the text you…

A further consideration is text and the setting of text.

There are a couple of characters which have subtle differences in how they are typed vs. how they should actually be typeset. Some notes/links on this at:

https://wiki.shapeoko.com/index.php/Designing_for_Fabrication#Text

I wrote a bit on typography at: http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/onetype.pdf which folks may find of interest.

• " '* (uni-directional stick quotes — ignore the extra asterisk, it had to be added to keep the forum software from changing these to curly quotes automatically) These should be replaced by the correct characters: “ ” ‘ ’ curly quotes
• ’ an apostrophe — ′ ″ or double and single prime marks (used when indicating feet, inches, or degrees; minutes and seconds)
• X or x (to indicate multiplication or orthogonal dimension) Please use the symbol: ×
• hyphen (-) often used to indicate not just hyphenation but also duration (en dash), a break in thought (em dash), or subtraction (minus symbol), additional code points are available for non-breaking and discretionary hyphens
  • – en dash
  • — em dash
  • − minus sign

If you’re using any special characters, I’d recommend looking them up at least in a dictionary to determine what they are and how they should be represented.