Aspire Toolpathing 'holes' question

[khaos]

When creating a new model in aspire.

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When creating the tool path

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Aspire creates these holes prior to cutting the squares out. This takes half the cut time. I thought that this might be to prevent some tear out but when the 'final' cut of each square is made it cuts outside of this hole. What is the reason I have them?

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For anyone who cares
If you don't want to make square holes

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you need this outer vector. I makes sense of course but its not something I thought of when I had holes instead of raised areas.
Even if the model shows raised squares.

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I do realize that the 3d model is disregarded for the VCarve. That is to say I don't need it at all. I started this idea as a 3D one so I included it to be a little more thorough.

[srwtlc]

The reason for the "holes" is that the area at the four corners is larger than what the paths between the squares are and the chosen v-bit (along with its settings in the tool library) can't do it all in one pass so it does those areas first to your flat depth setting.

[khaos]

cool, thanks. That makes sense.
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[nat_wheatley]

Joe,

How did you create/post those screenshots?

[khaos]

I know others use different means but this is how I do it. Alt print screen in Aspire then I use photoshop to crop the image. I save them as JPGs and batch process them using photoshops create web photo gallery.

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Limit the size to 600 here are the settings:


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Then of course I 'try' to remember to get a linefeed after every image so they don't go crazy wide making all the posts hard to read.

Hope this helps,

[nat_wheatley]

Thanks Joe, I'll give that a go.

[khaos]

Hey Nat, I forgot to add that the process creates some folders in the target location. I only use the images folder. After I post I delete the entire target.
Sorry to leave out a detail as key as that.

[bcammack]

Alt-PrtScr will capture to the clipboard the bitmap image of whatever window currently has focus. You can then paste it into Windows Paint, GIMP, Photoshop, etc. size and refine it for posting and then save as a .gif or .jpg file.

PrtScr captures the entire screen to the clipboard.