tsipe
05-08-2014, 02:48 PM
I use Illustrator for many things and have learned a valuable lesson when importing text into Aspire.
I exported some text for a sign as a dxf file from Illustrator and imported into Aspire and made a vcarve toolpath.
My bot (PRS Alpha 96x48) started out cutting fine.
Part of the way through the Y axis was lost and the line jumped. The error occurred in different places each time I tried.
When I quit the job, I received the message "Not enough axes designated for a Command in use. Use [VD] to enable additional axes."
Talked to shopbot support and checked grounding and back-revved the software from 3.8.14 to 3.8.12 (same problems)
The node-editing tool revealed the issue. The letter "S" created in Aspire created 36 nodes when I converted it to curves. The letter S imported from the dxf file had literally countless nodes (several hundred). Now wonder my machine started acting goofy.
Here's what I learned:
Import text from Illustrator as "ai" file - resulted in too many open vectors when importing to Aspire.
Import text from Illustrator as dxf file - node overload
Create outlines from text and import as Illustrator file is optimum and yields the same results as converting text within Aspire.
I also noticed that my Aspire file was originally 26meg. After the fix, the file size was 328k. I won't get the chance to actually re-cut the sign, but I'm certain the problem will most likely go away.
Hope this helps someone...Tom
I exported some text for a sign as a dxf file from Illustrator and imported into Aspire and made a vcarve toolpath.
My bot (PRS Alpha 96x48) started out cutting fine.
Part of the way through the Y axis was lost and the line jumped. The error occurred in different places each time I tried.
When I quit the job, I received the message "Not enough axes designated for a Command in use. Use [VD] to enable additional axes."
Talked to shopbot support and checked grounding and back-revved the software from 3.8.14 to 3.8.12 (same problems)
The node-editing tool revealed the issue. The letter "S" created in Aspire created 36 nodes when I converted it to curves. The letter S imported from the dxf file had literally countless nodes (several hundred). Now wonder my machine started acting goofy.
Here's what I learned:
Import text from Illustrator as "ai" file - resulted in too many open vectors when importing to Aspire.
Import text from Illustrator as dxf file - node overload
Create outlines from text and import as Illustrator file is optimum and yields the same results as converting text within Aspire.
I also noticed that my Aspire file was originally 26meg. After the fix, the file size was 328k. I won't get the chance to actually re-cut the sign, but I'm certain the problem will most likely go away.
Hope this helps someone...Tom