Originally Posted by
chiloquinruss
I am by no means an expert at this but . . .Since your signature says you have Aspire here is how I would approach this task. Russ
Look at the example:
First I would POCKET the OUTSIDE of the letters to the INSIDE of the rectangle
Then I would VCARVE on the LINE the outline of the letters to the same depth I pocketed the rectangle
You will need to experiment with depths so that they match the width of the letter parts. IE if the width of the vertical part of the T is .25 I would start with a depth of half of that or .125 for both the POCKET and VCARVE.
Like I said I am no expert. Have fun I hope this helps. Sometimes you have to just step back and let Aspire do the work!
Russ
That would work if the font was large and each letter had continuous width. I used a truetype font and the width of the letters varied and was quite small. The finished piece as only 2" x 3". The method I used worked satisfactorily.
It seems there is a bug in Aspire. It should have been smart enough to handle the full depth tool path since it worked by creating a separate tool path for each pass. If this was a more complex project that had a deeper cut, it might have gotten tedious to create so many tool paths but in this case, I only needed seven.
Thanks for looking at it though.
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