Can someone explain to me what I am seeing here with this text? As the text gets larger I see this weird artifacts that I don’t quite understand. From my understanding VCarve follows the middle path of the lettering. So as the text gets bigger why is it seemingly having more trouble following the path of the letters? I’m really confused about how vcarving is functioning. Is there a better way of thinking about this?
Settings are #301 90deg
.1" max depth V-Carve.
Font is “CC Farmhouse 7
From top to bottom Font Height is 1”, 1.5", 2", 3"
Either you are depth-limiting the V carving, or you are using a tool which is not wide enough to cut the width requested — use an Advanced V carving instead.
A simple vcarve goes down the middle of a linr/lines. The bit tries to touch both sides of the line. Advanced vcarve only goes around the outside of the line/lines.
A simple vcarve should not have depth limited or weird results are seen. You can easily set depth with advanced vcarve due to the way it is carved.
One caution about simple vcarve with bottom of material selected and that is when carving thick lines in thin material you can cut through the material if it is thin enough. On thin material better to use advanced vcarve to keep from cutting through material.
I got that, but take it to an extreme example (and honestly not that much of an extreme because signs can be this large) you have a 24" x 36" item and your lettering is ~12" tall and the letter itself is ~1" wide, you will still end up having really weird artifacts and it still wouldn’t be as wide as it needs to be. It ends up being super deep and still looking awkward. I guess the solution would be to use a bit > .5" wide, larger angle (120deg or similar), or use adv v-carve? I feel like I need a chart for this haha.
I was under the impression that V-Carve would do this type of motion V-Carving a Cedar Sign - YouTube to hit the edges. Or is it able to do that because the width of the lettering still more narrow than the bit?
