I’m making a few simple panels but I can’t get the lines (the orange ones in the picture) engraved. I have tried VCarve and Advanced VCarve. The contour lines are working just fine, just not the Polylines. Any idea?
you don’t want a vcarve in that situation anyway, more likely a contour toolpath with no offset ? (you can still use a vbit, moving at a predefined engraving depth, but that’s still a contour toolpath)
If a contour toolpath on the orange lines does not work, it may be something off in the vectors themselves, maybe some way in at the junction between the circle and the two/three lines connecting to it ?
I will try the contour toolpath. It is a bit strange because the other rings around the inner circles work fine, just not the lines…
V carve Toolpaths only work with closed geometry.
In more recent versions of Carbide Create you can use a V endmill w/ a no offset Contour Toolpath w/ an open path and get a correct 3D preview.
I can’t select the #301 using a contour toolpath. When I use a VCarve of Advanced VCarve, I can select the VCarve bit obvioudsly but I still don’t get the lines… So using a contour toolpath seems ok but I can’t select the Vbit…
The only way around this might be to create a rectangle with, for example, a 0.25 mm width…
I’ll just do a contour and use a straight 1.5 mm bit, these are just lines so this will also work… I’m making things more complicated than they are… 
Thanks!
The bit you use doesn’t have to be the bit you tell CC you are using as long as you understand what will happen; I’ve often done this to use unsupported bits (roundover).
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Thanks for the tip, for V bits I just have to take the depth in consideration but that’s ok.
I’m able to select the #301 90° Vee bit for a contour path.
I have to set the path to “No Offset” for it to generate a Toolpath.
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And that absolutely works! Thanks for the tip!
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