I pulled the USAF Emblem from the Library in Carbide Create. The center comes up in magenta and does not seem to want to carve. I saved it out as a svg file and loaded into vCarve Pro and it says there are open vectors. How can I correct this?
Thanks,
Douglas
An element being magenta indicates that it is open/unclosed/unjoined — such geometry may only be used with Contour toolpaths — doing so with “No Offset” and a suitable tool at a suitable depth should allow those details to be cut.
1 Like
Vetric likely has a node editing. If not then bring it into CC and use the join vectors or edit nodes to close the vector. If using CC you can output the corrected file as an SVG if you want to import it back into Vetric.
1 Like
Thanks for the reply.
What I found that in vCarve there is a tool path for engraving. It looks like that is going to solve the problem. It doesn’t care about open vectors and intersections. I haven’t sent it to the machine yet but looks like it will work.
Thanks again,
Douglas
I think in many of the library objects, there is a mix of vectors meant to be V-carved or Advanced V-Carved, then some objects that were intended to be contoured with no offset.
The library objects are just a starting point so you don’t have to draw the whole thing.
And people may want to cut the objects in different ways. So there is no good “one size fits all”.
1 Like
This topic was automatically closed 30 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.