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Thread: Carving to much out of the pattern

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    Default Carving to much out of the pattern

    Im not sure how to word this problem but Ill try. I am carving plaques for our local basketball team. The wood I am using comes from the old court. I did a set of these plaques about a year ago and have been asked to do more. Its real simple design it is the name of the high school, the players name, jersey #, and a basketball. I carved 3 of them yesterday without a flaw and started today and the first one just carved out a circle where the basketball should be . I made sure everything was cleaned, rechecked my pattern to make sure I didn't have any issues there and proceeded to do a different one just to have the same results. I am at a loss as to what to do.

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    Thank you
    Ambrose Stapleton

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    Probably corrupted file or memory card. I would reformat the card and re upload the mpc. Then when I have problems like this I do a test on a piece of scrap or something besides my good material.

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    Thank you. I will try that and stupid me I didn't even think about using a scrap piece of wood.

    Ambrose

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    I reformatted the card and put a different plaque pattern on it and it did the exact same thing. Is there a way to check to see if the card is corrupted.

    Ambrose Stapleton

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    Can you post the mpc? Someone else could give it a try.

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    #22.mpc Here's one of the MPC's. I have about 24 of them, three of them carved well but then one of them decided to t carve properly and I have tried various others to find out they don't want to care properly. Thi8s is the second set I've done for this coach from the high school. The medium I carved on is part of the old basket ball court. The school is undergoing renovations and the GYM was being rebuilt and they replaced the court. I had no problems with The first set I did about a year ago.

    Today I'm going to try and carve something completely different and see if that will work. I'll post the results.


    Ambrose Stapleton

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    I thought the basketball was a V bit cut. It was a carve! Maybe you should jog to touch so you can touch where the ball will be carved. I think Connie may be right, the boards are not that flat.

    (I would make the ball out of curves and use the V bit on it as well.)

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    Try this one, I removed the carve and put a ball made out of vectors and assigned the v-90 bit. So you will not have to change bits, the whole thing will be done with the the same bit you used for the lettering.
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ID:	73285Thank you for the help. I tried making my own basketball but failed miserably at it. I will work on this some more tomorrow. Thank you once again for the help. I finished a different carve and it came out really nice. So I am really hoping this is operator error and not my machine breaking down again.

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    Ambrose Stapleton

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