evansd2
February 28, 2018, 2:02pm
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Good advice about the vector combinations. As for the rectangle, that’s tougher to get around but might be a candidate for something I posted a while back:
I wanted to see if it would be faster to make my own engraving paths. Basically I made a series of concentric or spiral shapes and scored them to see if it would work as an engrave. The end result is that it does work, with mixed results.
All settings are 500/15 on Baltic Birch. This is not a great setting for anything, it was just reasonably fast and showed what I was looking for.
First: This is a traditional engrave. Nice and crisp. no hot spots, but slow. Engrave time: 7:00
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In this case I might try offsetting a bunch of paths by a very small amount to see what you get.
Alternatively there was some talk about breaking the shape apart to get it to stop scanning the whole area but I’m not sure where that ended up.
I’m doing a large circle engrave, having used inkscape’s object to path and stroke to path.
When engraving, it starts at the bottom, then goes back and forth. at some point, it starts doing the sides. the issue is that it does the scanline form one side, then the other, then reverses direction and does it again. wondering if anyone knows thy it doesn’t just continue up one side, do the top, then descend down the other side. would save a lot of movement and likely make the engrave go much f…
Also a discussion about engrave speed in general:
Trying to do a rather large piece, and it says FOUR HOURS?
Come on. That’s ridiculous. There’s no reason a piece 11x8 should take THAT long.
Edit - That was after waiting about 15 mins for “Preparing your design”…
Let us know how it turns out!