VCarves (not Advanced VCarves) don’t have a defined depth - the advice for the ‘depth’ parameter is to use ‘t’ as a value to limit the VCarve to the depth of material.
I would like a way to determine how deep a VCarve path actually carved. This would be useful to determine how thick a piece of stock is needed for a given project.
I couldn’t find anything in either CC or CM. The visual representation allow one to guess, but not accurately.
The only way I can think of for today would be to set a large ‘depth’ value, then try successive smaller values for the stock thickness until the carve punches through. Again, not very accurate, especially with very acute V bits.
That works if you know the width at any given point. To know the total depth, you have to know the widest point, and that can be tricky for anything complicated. The math itself is easy, no problem there.
How deep will the lettering go? I guess the bowl of the ‘R’ is the widest point, maybe?
Or the computer could figure it out exactly for me.
I’m using V8 right now, setting a limit doesn’t solve the problem. It just gives me a different problem.
I don’t want to set a limit, because I don’t want flat bottoms on my letters, i.e., I want what a V7 VCarve would give me. On V8, you’d get this by setting a depth greater than you expect it to be, and then you still don’t know how deep it will go.
