Not sure why this is not carving out the center of the lettering. It will only contour the outside. I also attached another with ‘Test’. Will that one work to cut the crap in the middle?
Cookbook_Holder_Engraved_x2.c2d (1.9 MB)
Cookbook_Holder_Engraved_x2_Test.c2d (2.0 MB)
If you want the area around a text to be cut, then select it and some surrounding geometry to define where the cut will extend:
Sorry, I explained it poorly. The one that does not have ‘test’ was leaving material in the middle of the cuts so it looked like a contour. The one labeled ‘text’ seems like it would cut out the middle material as well.
What are your thoughts on the 0.025 depth on a 30 degree. The detail goes away as I go deeper.
I am cutting into the text not around it.
Even if I put the pocket clear at a 30 degree (inefficient) it says it is an empty tool path. So I did this again with ‘test’ and it does not pocket clear? Any way you know to pocket clear these???
You need to:
Draw the widest region up in profile, and a profile of the tool, and position it so that it will cut to the desired depth.
If you select the text:
dand assign an Advanced V carving to a suitably shallow depth, then pocket clearing will happen — if a sufficiently large area is left uncut — this design is quite small/delicate, so that isn’t likely to happen, unless you increase its size.
I am attempting an engraving bit, we shall see. It took it in the program as designed. We shall see.
