Hi all,

After much trials and tribulations i've finally gotten this beastie up and running. While I'll be doing mostly aluminum cutting for signs, I had some HDU to play with. See the attached photos of a Phila Eagles logo that I just cut. It was done in Aspire and the original 2d was imported from Corel as a PDF. The preview didn't look as bad as the final cut. I've used this artwork to cut sign vinyl before and it came out with smooth curves. Is this just a case of the machine following the paths more exactly that my sign plotter or am I doing something wrong? Maybe I just need to smooth the curves better. I did forget to include a last pass so that might help and also should be using a smaller bit to get further into the tight spots.

Bits used if that matters.
1/2" 2 flute straight bit - roughing
1/8" ball nose - 'final pass'
1/4" end mill - profile pass

Thanks!

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