carvewright
12-12-2006, 12:01 PM
The carving time of each project is determined by four main variables: the size of the project, the quality setting selected, the depth of cut, and the cutting mode. Like a printer, the user can select the output quality. The higher the quality setting selected the longer the project will take to run. The CarveWright produces carvings by two different cut modes; raster carving and vector carving modes. Raster carvings are produced by making many small passes with the cutting bit, building the image one line at a time. A vector carving is produced when the bit follows a 3-D path generated by the software. Vector carvings are typically much faster than raster carvings. The software will estimate total cut time when you upload the project to the memory card. For comparison the jewelry box (8.5” x 5.5” x 3.5”) on the top line of the website Results page took one hour to carve the top and 4 sides in normal quality. The larger box below it (10” x 13” x 6”) took 5 hours at high quality.