I setup my DMAX yesterday, and made my first cuts (the rabbet around the spoil board). I wanted to try a simple V-carve of two intersecting hearts with initials in each heart for a ring box I will be making (I have stabilized some beautiful spalted maple for the project).
Well, I imported the font I wanted and was successful in placing the initials on a layer on top of the bitmap image I had worked out.
The toolpath preview is ok.
But I can't figure out how do get just the OUTLINE of the heart.
When I vectorized the bitmap image I had done, the toolpath preview
does an inlay of the hearts.
So I tried just using the draw curves vector tool for even just one
heart on a layer, and the preview tool is drilling out everything outside the heart shape, as if I wanted a bas relief of a heart.
How do I draw the vector of a heart, so it will V-carve just the OUTLINE, as if the heart
were a letter? Thanks for any help. I have Aspire 8.5, but can't post
questions on that forum yet (waiting for Admin approval of registration).
P.S. I have been watching as many Vectric tutorials as I can.