Pocketing around objects

[willhime (William Wade)]

how do I get carbide create to not pocket an area I didn’t select ? I’m trying to carve a logo and the middle circle is supposed to be a sun with rays coming out of it. I created the first tool path to carve the outside right of the circle. When I select the rays and tell it to pocket around them, it automatically pockets the unselected sun as well. I tried creating a 2nd smaller circle within the sun to counteract it wanted to pocket it out but it still wants to. Basica

lly I want the rays and the sun to be proud of the surface. I know it’s a small piece- 5" diameter, but I’m using super small bits like the 1/32 end mill, and I tried to Vcarve as well around it but it still refuses to not carve the sun with everything else.

[rowiac (Roger A)]

I tried to replicate the behavior, but I can’t. Can you share your .c2d file?

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

Usually this problem is caused by stacked/overlapping paths, or a problem with the path direction, please see:

Fixing path winding in Carbide Create

Sometimes, when one imports a file and processes it in Carbide Create, a path may not be included when processing a V Carve: [CCBE-3] The solution for this is to get that path to have the proper path direction — there are commands and scripts to fix this in software such as Freehand, Inkscape, and Adobe Illustrator, but one can finesse it in Carbide Create by: drawing a small bit of geometry w/in the bounds of the path clicking on the path control clicking on the added geometry (to add it …

If you continue to have difficulty with the file, please post it here or send it to us at support@carbide3d.com and we’ll do our best to help puzzle this out.