V Carving Depth of Cut Help Me Understand

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

As a corollary to all this, please see:

V carve + inside pocket?

I’m trying to understand how to use V carve along with a pocketing operation. For example I am wanting to V carve an entire sign but there are large areas that need to be pocketed, would I simply V carve along the lines and then perform an inside pocket after a tool change to a flat in endmill on the inside of the pocket area?

or contract it to the feature for V depth limiting in Vectric Vcarve.

It’s really interesting to compare the geometry one gets with a constant tool angle and the sort of continual change and consistent depth one gets with hand-carving — in particular, the depth of small, delicate areas will be much deeper with hand carving, and the corresponding shadow far darker. See Michael Harvey’s Creative Lettering Today for more on that.