
Originally Posted by
brdad
There is no dispute you are correct - As in many cases, tricking a machine into doing something it is normally not capable of introduces risk to machine, operator, or both. I have heard of people placing a stick between their seat and accelerator pedal as a makeshift cruise control, using cement blocks or wood from the wood pile to hold their cars up in the air while working underneath, and tying two ladders together to make them longer. Sometimes those practices worked, sometimes - not so much. The truth is in all of these cases, there were reasonably safe ways created which were invented to eliminate the need for the risky tricks (cruise control, jack stands and extension ladders).
So where I am going with this is - CW knows the desire for Centerline in a carve region has been discussed and asked for by many of us. It's quite obvious it could be done and done safely, otherwise we could not do vector carves in a carve region safely as in my crappy example below. The end product is no different, it's only the procedure that is different since Centerline uses a variable depth to maintain the correct cut width on the surface.
Centerline is great, but it's a lot of money when it has a limitation of only being on the top of the board. I have no doubt Centerline in a carve region could be programmed into the CW software. Yes, if it is done in a inconsistent depth carve region it may look like crap, I think we're willing to accept that. But if CW says it can't be done, they need new programmers. It may take an extra 5000 lines of code but it can be done. Tricking the machine is not the best way to do it. CW can make it so there is no need for tricks and the hundreds if not thousands of posts on this topic will be irrelevant!
Sorry to ramble on...
I looked at your image you posted and the word "VECTOR" that you used is not centerline text carving, you are drawing the carving and it is only carving on a line only. You could carve Centerline Text in a carve region if you used the program "ai2mpc" - But you would need a program that generates Illustrator files (.ai), and also know how to install the “ai2mpc” program on your computer. Thanks to JLT’s e-mail I found out how to do that - Thanks JLT, BJB
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