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    Default Brain Fart - should be simple, can't remember how to do it!

    I am simply trying to carve a frame from a quarter inch panel. I have been screwing around with this for about 30 minutes fruitlessly. I can get it to look like I'd want, by using a pierced carving, but that would take a ridiculous amount of time, when I should just be able to cut it out instead. I'm attaching the mpc and a pic of how I'd like it, but it is with the pierced carving, not with a cutting bit. Been too long since I've done something like this, and I simply cannot remember what I need to do to get the rounded rectangle and the text outlined together in the right way to make a cut path!

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    I got it to work with the cut out tool I did used the outline tool. Used both pattern to outline.

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    I tried that the very first thing. It outlines the rounded rectangle, and the bottoms of the letters; the opposite of what I want.

    [edit] Here's a pic of my results -
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    Something like this? The 1/16" cutting bit? My trick is the pattern I made called mask. It has the hole in it that you want to be part of the outline. There may be a easier way.
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    That is what I want, yes. I think I see how you did it, and it looks nothing like what I'd done in the past, that I cannot remember how I did, lol. But it works!
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    this was whet I got without the pierced tool
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    Quote Originally Posted by aokweld101 View Post
    this was whet I got without the pierced tool

    Is that a cutout or a carve out? I had trouble trying to get the outline tool to outline the shape to cutout. I kept thinking that there was a way using clip inclusive. It seems like there should be a simpler solution than what I did.
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    This example will cut as raster. If you only want the cutout, delete the pattern (ava). I tried to make the pattern using only the Designer but just couldn't get the cutouts to work. I gave up and used a different program and imported as an .stl. Then it only took about 10 minutes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SteveNelson46 View Post
    I tried to make it using only the Designer but just couldn't get to work. I gave up and used a different program to create the pattern.
    No Fair!! (I took the mask pattern into PE and removed the interior to make a hole.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by bergerud View Post
    No Fair!! (I took the mask pattern into PE and removed the interior to make a hole.)
    The way you did it was brilliant but it took much longer and more skill.
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