Vcarve or Contour Help

[gdon_2003 (Guy Donham)]

I am designing a box top for my hot water camping shower. I intent to use this on more boxes for more camping stuff. The issue is with the camp fire in the middle of the design. I made a tool path with #302 for a vcarve but in the preview it looks awfully thin. I tried another tool path with a #112 (1/16" bit) but that looks very jagged in the preview. I could try to make the camp fire bigger and hopefully get a little more depth.

The material is .75" plywood. I tried the vcarve with max depth of .15" and then using stock bottom. Both previews looked the same. So I guess it is just the width of the camp fire.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

larry_camping_adventure.c2d (342.9 KB)

I made the curved text in Affinity Designer. I am not sure about the font but that is a separate issue that is purely ascetic.

[mhotchin (Michael Hotchin)]

You could make the elements of the fire ‘fatter’ without making it bigger by using ‘Offset Vector’. The current vectors for the fire are about .125" apart.

I did ‘UnGroup Vectors’, then selected the interior vector of the fire, and did a .05" Inside offset. Delete the old interior, regroup.

Overall size is the same, but the fire carves are about 40% wider.

Original:

Thicker:

larry_camping_adventure.c2d (512.6 KB)

[Tod1d (Tod (with 1 'd'))]

You could also cut it with a #301 (90° bit), and/or just lower the same cut on your machine. i.e. set your Z0 a bit lower.