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badbert
06-07-2012, 09:39 PM
I finally started the carve for my Stallion Door Header. In best quality, it is an 18 hour carve. I have a 2hp HF DC. It draws ~15 amps by itself. I have it plugged in with my shop lights. When I turn it on it cycles the ballasts, but they recover and no problem. The other plugs are "live" when the switch is off... SO I ASSUMED... that the circuits were different... 15 hours into an 18 hour carve... my son-in-law (my right hand) turned off the lights. When he realized the DC quit... he flipped it back on... Well at least we now know that they are on the same circuit! SO... I took a long shot! And so far it's working!! I reset everything, taped off the switches... and fired up the carver. It worked (huge sigh of relief) I went through the prompts and it is 8 hours in and It looks, so far, to be dead accurate! I just wish there was a fast forward button! Any one else had success with this, Is this thing really accurate enough to recarve a 47"x12"x.75" deep carve?

AskBud
06-07-2012, 09:55 PM
I finally started the carve for my Stallion Door Header. In best quality, it is an 18 hour carve. I have a 2hp HF DC. It draws ~15 amps by itself. I have it plugged in with my shop lights. When I turn it on it cycles the ballasts, but they recover and no problem. The other plugs are "live" when the switch is off... SO I ASSUMED... that the circuits were different... 15 hours into an 18 hour carve... my son-in-law (my right hand) turned off the lights. When he realized the DC quit... he flipped it back on... Well at least we now know that they are on the same circuit! SO... I took a long shot! And so far it's working!! I reset everything, taped off the switches... and fired up the carver. It worked (huge sigh of relief) I went through the prompts and it is 8 hours in and It looks, so far, to be dead accurate! I just wish there was a fast forward button! Any one else had success with this, Is this thing really accurate enough to recarve a 47"x12"x.75" deep carve?I presume that the machine was still doing a raster/pattern carve (they are the first items to be carved).
As I understand it, you can usually draw a rectangle to cover all but the very end of the failed carve, make it a ZERO depth carve. This will bypass the carved area (it will think for a while, before it continues carving the failed carve so don't panic).
AskBud

badbert
06-07-2012, 10:02 PM
Is there a tutorial? :)

AskBud
06-07-2012, 10:40 PM
Is there a tutorial? :)I'll bet there is a thread that has some actual pictures, but I can not locate one. Perhaps someone else has a link.
AskBud

ladjr
06-07-2012, 10:54 PM
I presume that the machine was still doing a raster/pattern carve (they are the first items to be carved).
As I understand it, you can usually draw a rectangle to cover all but the very end of the failed carve, make it a ZERO depth carve. This will bypass the carved area (it will think for a while, before it continues carving the failed carve so don't panic).
AskBud

That is a great piece of information. I hope I won't have to us it but Thanks Bud

Leo

badbert
06-07-2012, 10:59 PM
Bud, I was ribbing you a little bit. I really do enjoy your tutorials! And this is a good piece of information. Had I not modified the MPC already, this info would have been a godsend. But from now on I will save the carved copy and create new copies for tweaks. Back to the Air carve!

brdad
06-08-2012, 05:10 AM
I've had mixed accuracy carving over something I have already carved. Usually any errors are subtle and can be sanded to blend together. Using a zero depth carve region as a fix works well UNLESS you have centerline text or vector paths utilizing the conform feature inside that rectangle.

It really would be nice if the machine could know at what point it quit so it could be restarted at that point.

CasinoDuck
06-08-2012, 06:49 AM
Thanks Bud for the tip:cool: