Optimizing Toolpaths Strategies - Vectric VCarve, Aspire, & Cut2D Quick Tip

[@LearnYourCNC]

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[@gthmcty111]

Bruh I am shocked you don’t have more followers!! Your quick tip videos are INVALUABLE, I have been using Vectrics for over a year and your. Ideas have helped speed up my workflow for sure! Thank you thank you thank you!! Keep up the fantastic job!!!!

[@LearnYourCNC]

I appreciate that!! I am always glad to help out!

[@redherring5532]

There's even some I spent hours figuring out only to get it even more enhanced here

[@redherring5532]

Got a lot out of the vector selection order explanation, will come in clutch for an upcoming project

[@ekmakes8969]

This has been really useful, thank you. It would be really great if you could include a finishing position tutorial in the future. . . . sometimes it's better if the gantry and spindle would finish in a different place than the starting point (for ease of access to unload and reload).

[@ronbrown5664]

I am TOTALLY new at this so bear with me. Would it be possible to ROTATE the horizontal layer 2D 90 degrees and save it to a vertical layer and keep the tool paths for both layers?

[@derekjenkinson8014]

What was this safe z height? What was the plunge speed? Changes to these will speed up the times as well. But a great example of how to optimise a job though.

[@joshuaarce94]

Great Video. I want to make a vacuum table too!

[@lassiter42]

Noticed on your "cut time" screen (1:41) that your scale factor is 2.0. By being on that scale factor, the cut time is approximately twice the actual time. I realized this on my carves. I had a carve that said 1:30:45.....that actual cut time was a little over 45 minutes. It seems to be the case on all of my actual cut times.

[@BeaulieuTodd]

Well presented.

[@troypritchard2999]

Thank you for the cool tips. 👍

[@LearnYourCNC]

You're welcome!

[@flypic1098]

Thanks. 👍 Jim

[@patruddiman4228]

So I had a person design my guitar neck and fretboard for VCarve Pro. The whole idea for carving the fretboard on my CNC was to have what they call blind fret slots. Which means the slots do not get cut all the way to the edge. Well the file didn't end up that way. I tried contacting the individual that designed my neck and fretboard but he is moving his shop and is not responding. So basically what I did was move the nodes in from the edge the desired distance. Well that didn't work it still cuts from edge to edge. Can you help me out?

[@Z-add]

Once you completed the horizontal lines selection order why can't you copy that on the vertical layer and rotate it 90deg?

[@karlalbert1089]

You could connect every end of a line to the next and get a Mäander. This would be cut in one single track and is a tenth of the work you made

[@noface960]

change scale factor to 1

[@michaelkeymont501]

Over an hour to cut that simple pattern?? Try turning off Ramps and watch that go down to 15 minutes... it looks like you’re doing a .5” ramp on every one of those lines, and THAT is where your time is being wasted. Beyond that, if you’re going to recreate the pattern to get better speed, why not go all the way down to just 2 of the lines, make sure that the order and direction is correct, and array copy them to be how you want? Once that’s done, copy the whole pattern to another layer and simply rotate the copy. All of the selection order and direction stuff will be already done. Similarly, you could also just do one of the quadrants and array copy the resulting toolpaths so that any changes you make are automatically copied to the remaining 3 quadrants.

[@hx4791]

took 10 minutes to change that in cam lol may as well have sent the code to the machine and let the machine spend that 10 minutes

[@karlsangree]

15 minutes of tedious editing to save 10 minutes of machine time? Am I missing something here?

[@LearnYourCNC]

If you are cutting the file just once or twice, then I agree, the juice is not worth the squeeze. However, if you are cutting a file multiple times, you are definitely going to want to optimize it. Let's say you save 10 minutes and you cut it 50 times, that adds up to over 8 hours of savings.

[@karlsangree]

@@LearnYourCNC Ok, I get it now. As a long time machinist specializing in one-off parts, I never thought of making 50 of the same part... that concept is totally alien to me. Thanks for the insight. Love your videos.