Stop the CW/CCW Insanity!
F-Engrave V1.30 is now available Here: F-Engrave Download
Here are the highlights:
- F-Engrave now can determine which side of the loops in a DXF design need to be cut when v-carving. Previously the input needed to be formatted so that the loops in the design were clockwise or counter clockwise to determine whether the inside or outside of the loop was cut.
- A new “V-Carve Accuracy” setting. This new setting can be used to ignore small features in a design. This is especially useful for small DXF design imperfections which result in bad v-carve tool paths. You can also get some speed improvement by increasing this value allowing F-Engrave to ignore tiny features.
A side note: I plan to continue to post updates here but I am also posting them and some other stuff on the Scorch Works Blog and on the Scorch Works Facebook page.
Good luck,
Scorch
Re: Open Source V-Carving
There's just one thing I'm not getting.
How does one determine what size a carving is going to be?
I see the option for setting it the text width to 100% --- 100% of what?
Re: Open Source V-Carving
There's a boundary information field at the bottom on the screen.
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Re: Open Source V-Carving
Oh and the text width at 100% is normal size of character. Greater than 100% would stretch the characters out (elongate it) and less than 100% would compress them.
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Re: Open Source V-Carving
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Originally Posted by
WillAdams
How does one determine what size a carving is going to be?
I see the option for setting it the text width to 100% --- 100% of what?
One ore thing to add to Vogavt's answer: The text size is driven by the text height input. For a given text height the width of the text is determined by the shape of the characters. Changing the width input deforms the characters shape to be narrower or wider.