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How can I speed up a simple vector carve?
Hello Everyone!
I've had my two CW machines for 6 or 7 years now. I use them constantly, rebuilt everything on them several times, and can rebuild them in my sleep. I recently have had a request to make "faux circular saw" like cut lines across the grain of several boards, to make the face of the board to look as if it were cut on a circular saw mill. The boards will measure 8.5"x144"x3/4". I have worked out how to get the weight managable, along with the layout. When I load the project onto the card, it tells me the estimated time is a fraction of the total carve time (for example, a 24" long cut is saying it should only take around 11 minutes but takes closer to 55 minutes). I have run two different lengths of board on my CW, just as a sample. My math tells me that it will take 5.5 to 6 hours to do one board. This is problematic due to the fact that they are asking me to make at least 43 boards. Before anyone suggests it, I have the carve quality set to normal, when I switch it to draft, the estimated time only shortens by a matter of a few minutes. I am using the 3/8 jointing bit and only removing 1/32" of wood per pass with random arched grooves running the width of the board. Am I missing something? Is there any way to speed up the bit and carve speed? The cut is shallow and it is a very gentle curve vector. I think I have attached the smaller 24" long sample file, feel free to download it and open it to see what I'm trying to make. Thanks for the Help!
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