Funny thing going on with V carve tool paths with CC.
I’m thrilled with the results. It’s frightfully easy to get a nice carve on the right wood.
But Depending on the character, such as a dotted letter “I” , when the bit gets to that dot It will get hung up and just keep hitting that character or letter several times before moving on.
Gets hung up on serfs as well quite a bit. This seems to be adding a lot of extra time.
Then some letters it goes through once or twice and moves on so I haven’t had to duplicate tool paths For a clean cut.
wonder if this would be the case with either fusion or Vetric?
I think this is what’s happening. V-carve traces the ‘co-tangent’ vectors first. Then for any corner that is sharp, or has a radius of curvature smaller than the radius of the tool at that depth it ‘picks’ out the corners. This is great when you have sharp corners you want defined in the cut. But not so great when you just want to carve out lines or letters & you don’t need any corners picked out.
It would be super cool if we could turn off the ‘picking’ when we don’t want it. Or define a maximum angle for a corner in case we have some corners we want picked, and then smoother contours like illustrated that we don’t want picked.
