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I've been away from the CW for quite a while now, but I have a job for it and am having trouble getting back to speed...

There are 2 scenarios, haven't picked on yet... I'm making a bookcase type...

1/16 is the carving bit, 1/8 is the smallest cutting bit. For small inlay, you're better off with the laser. The CW would probably be OK with Marquetry and larger inlay. But you won't get...

Looks like the original piece was broken, then scanned. The spot on the outside becomes less noticeable when you frame it in a rectangle and set a carve region.

Shaddy

A cross piece sounds good to me, depends on what light effects you want. Otherwise to edge join, like everyone else said, just make sure your edges are flat and 90° (most table saws with a good...

oh THAT madonna :)

Thanks for the Up.

Shaddy

I'm not positive (because I'm not sure how CW looks at things), but in general, programs are more interested in the actual Pixel count, as opposed to Size.

So if for instance, you had a 2"x2"...

Here's a John Deere logo, might be of interest to some

Shaddy

I added a Harley logo to the pattern sticky.

Shaddy

Here's a Harley logo

Got it from www.brandsoftheworld.com
in EPS format, brought it in to CorelDRAW made it larger by stretching, copied, then imported in to CW. Took all of a couple minutes.
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Here's a few I made or vectorized, to add to the thread, Thanks Jon

Shaddy

If you look very close at some of the grey strips, you can see that they aren't a solid color, they fade from light to dark (in the wrong direction) so even taking it into a photo program and...

I haven't attempted the Jog yet, so I can't answer that. But what I've done is increase the bard length then copy-paste between the MPC's and make one MPC with the 2 projects on it side by side.
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For more complex stuff I've been using CorelDRAW, filling black... exporting as JPG, then importing into CW. Then use CW's outline feature. You can just thicken up the lines and not fill within...

Dspeers, I tried it too, but it won't give you a 3D look. Those are rendered to look good to the eye, but the depth based on the shades will be incorrect and engraver poorly.

TB... nice job,...

Well, Photograv and the CW might work in some instances, but what PG does is convert a greyscale photo to a series of black dots on a white background. This can look good with the laser on wood,...

Bob, I was referring to my thread title of "Centerline Path is Irregular"... I meant that I was using the Centerline option for text, then using Select Bit to choose route profile (60° V Groove in...

The final result is fine, but watching the inefficiency if the path during the process is excruciating. It took about 10x longer than it should have. If I were to guess, it might have to do with...

hey, I AM running 1.036, thanks for the heads up on the update.

Shaddy

Most of the time i get tabs, and one full edge is still connected, what's going on there?

Shaddy

wow, what kind of plastic costs 200 a sheet? Must be good stuff.

I haven't tried it on the CW yet, but for my laser I use cast acrylic from delviesplastics.com,

Extruded might carve better,...

It can be done if the cogs are rounded over (to allow for the 1/8" cutting bit). But I haven't done one.

Shaddy

Try using a different browser when printing, like Mozilla Firefox. It seems to handle it better. Also before you print, go to File -- Page Setup then change some stuff. Play around, like reducing...

Your directions were good, thanks.

THere's nothing wrong with the corel way... except it's quite a few extra steps and it would be nice to do it in CW.

Shaddy

I'm having a lot of trouble making a rectangle with rounded corners, any tips?

Lets say I want a 8x5 plaque with 1.5" radius corners. How would I go about it?

I've been making then in Corel,...

Searched for PTN and came across this

http://carvewright.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1029&highlight=&sid=255d6d510f327a812424e70255a66fdd#1029

Shaddy