Youive heard it before but again i have to thank you. The way you explain everything is perfect and i'd be lost { i was feeling lost } until i watched a few of your videos. Its very likely your videos will let me get and keep the job i now have.
Thank you for sharing your experiences with VCP. I'm still kind of new, but constantly learning from others such as yourself. Thank you!👍. I saw another technique a few weeks ago very similar, however another way is when having a symetrical shape you could do only one side of the shape and then mirror it to get an exact reverse copy of your drawing and then connect altogether as one item. Andrew, look forward to more.
Peter UK very helpful and I learned a lot, I have issue with Dwg that are created in 360 and other programs this node editing will help, but does anyone know a better way of getting a smooth machine finish ?
There are many possibilities when looking for a smoother finish. If you are using wood, the main variables I would look at is the direction of the wood grain, always try to carve with the grain when possible, and stepover rate. If you are working on other materials, I am not much help, but maybe the peeps over at NYC CNC have something helpful: czcams.com/video/kSI8FaNpO8k/video.html czcams.com/video/5PKR5ansIPo/video.html
Okay, playing around with direction of carve, using this reverse direction of node doesn't appear to have any effect on the direction of diamond engraving toolpath. If for what ever reason the direction of engraving is important to you as it is to me on some occasions, how do you make sure it carves from one direction to another. It is important when trying to calculate efficiency routes on giant detailed carves...for the record
It is my understanding that the quick engrave toolpath does not allow for direction selection. I'm not very familiar with engraving as I haven't explored that side of CNCing yet, but I have seen others talking about this issue. The profile toolpath allows such control and I hope they can eventually extend that to be included in engraving as well. If you discover a way, please come back and share.
@@EverwoodCreations I see, thanks, I will keep playing with it cause I am sure it's a glitch because sometimes it does follow it and sometimes it doesn't, it makes no gorram sense. It would be more than a little annoying having to tell the machine to profile an engraving path, if I could even make that work anyway.
This was super helpful - thank you. I was completely lost trying to edit vectors until I watched this.
Glad it helped!
Youive heard it before but again i have to thank you. The way you explain everything is perfect and i'd be lost { i was feeling lost } until i watched a few of your videos. Its very likely your videos will let me get and keep the job i now have.
Thank you for sharing your experiences with VCP. I'm still kind of new, but constantly learning from others such as yourself. Thank you!👍.
I saw another technique a few weeks ago very similar, however another way is when having a symetrical shape you could do only one side of the shape and then mirror it to get an exact reverse copy of your drawing and then connect altogether as one item. Andrew, look forward to more.
Excellent tip about mirroring one side of the shape, that can save a lot of time for symmetrical projects.
Thanks so much , it really helped me to understand nodes perfectly, I could edit them myself only after a single view
Fantastic! I'm so glad our video helped!!
wow your videos are awesome just found them half an hour ago thumbs up!
Thank you, that was really well done and very helpful. I’ve been struggling with the decision on whether to purchase VCP........
You're very welcome!
Thank you for sharing your techniques. I would just insert nodes when I tried to trace an object. Not anymore.
Thank you for your video. it was very helpful....
I'm so glad!
Peter UK very helpful and I learned a lot, I have issue with Dwg that are created in 360 and other programs this node editing will help, but does anyone know a better way of getting a smooth machine finish ?
There are many possibilities when looking for a smoother finish. If you are using wood, the main variables I would look at is the direction of the wood grain, always try to carve with the grain when possible, and stepover rate. If you are working on other materials, I am not much help, but maybe the peeps over at NYC CNC have something helpful:
czcams.com/video/kSI8FaNpO8k/video.html
czcams.com/video/5PKR5ansIPo/video.html
Okay, playing around with direction of carve, using this reverse direction of node doesn't appear to have any effect on the direction of diamond engraving toolpath. If for what ever reason the direction of engraving is important to you as it is to me on some occasions, how do you make sure it carves from one direction to another.
It is important when trying to calculate efficiency routes on giant detailed carves...for the record
It is my understanding that the quick engrave toolpath does not allow for direction selection. I'm not very familiar with engraving as I haven't explored that side of CNCing yet, but I have seen others talking about this issue. The profile toolpath allows such control and I hope they can eventually extend that to be included in engraving as well. If you discover a way, please come back and share.
@@EverwoodCreations I see, thanks, I will keep playing with it cause I am sure it's a glitch because sometimes it does follow it and sometimes it doesn't, it makes no gorram sense.
It would be more than a little annoying having to tell the machine to profile an engraving path, if I could even make that work anyway.
@@8thsinner These new technologies can be tough, but what can we do but stay shiny and keep flying? ;)