It's great for those that want to copy and paste clip art and they do have a fairly wide library though it costs. VC does carved lettering really well including mapping it onto non-planar surface (like a 3D banner). F360 is more for people with an engineering mindset. VC desktop (and pro I believe) is good for artist types that want hand holding. OK, so it does a lot more than that but so many of the tutorials start with 'go into clip art.'. But Alex has some good points about V-Carve too (he says as he chases his tail again LOL).Ĭlick to expand.I'm sure I'll p!ss some people off saying this but VCarve is kind of a glorified clip-art engine. Maybe I'll just stick with F360 and ditch the V-Carve Pro option. I supose I'm just at the stage where not knowing the software interfears with creativity. Not really a problem, I'm just a bit impatient LOL. F360 learning is all about putting time in to find answers to those quick questions as I go. That said, I'm at the point where I feel that designing in Illustrator and bringing paths into F360 may be the best way. For some reason it doesn't feel as intuitvive for me right now. Though I'm getting along well with F360 by learning as I go. Yes it's not pretty software to look at, but It feels a bit more intuitive from one stage to the next. I've got the demo version of V-Carve Aspire (V-Carve Pro only really removes the 2.5/3D creation aspect which I would do in F360) and for me, it seems pretty good 'visually' when designing simple signs etc.

I know this subject has been previously discussed but I'm unable to get things to work.Ĭlick to expand.Well this is what I've been chasing my tail over.

I have uploaded the original SVG file from Illustrator. My situation if further complicated that at my shop I have no internet access so need to generate the code at home. I tried following the recommendations about bringing it into Inkscape, select all, paths, etc but still can't create any gcode. I'm using the OpenBuilds Control software and associated online gcode generater. The problem I have is that I can not seem to generate any gcode from my SVG file I exported from Illustrator. For this build I purchased DXF files of the guitar with all closed vectors. On a previous guitar build I had help setting up the CNC and all I provided were the needed files from Adobe Illustrator. I'm starting the build of an acoustic guitar and want to use my new CNC to make the side bending forms, etc. Although I have yet to cut anything on it the machine seems to work fine. I recently built a Workbee with a black box controller. Although I'm a very 'techy' type of guy I'm new to the CNC world and thus need some handholding.

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