Help with Parker's Place

[bergerud]

I do not understand why the patterns would be any different. Did you chose bit optimization best for the patterns on the board?

The hidden pattern is the penguin. I did not like it but left it on the board anyway. If you go to View - Toolbars - Carving list, you will see it in the list.

[Sliverfoot]

Parkers Place2.mpcThe patterns that you posted were great!
I've put them on a different board and they are just as clear. I guess my question was a dumb one. I thought that if I took those grey images and put them in editor I could adjust the grey scale , or depths, but when I put them in editor especially the giraffe, the image (in editor) is poor. I was just trying experiment with a grey image in editor. Guess I don't understand grey scale or editor.

Regarding the hidden pattern, I see what you mean. I deleted it.

My supervising editor (wife) asked me to move around some of the patterns so here is what the revised patter looks like.
When I uploaded it I got 3 warnings.
1 Wide cuts across the width may interfere with the compression rollers.
2 cut throughs on the top edge will not be completed in order to avoid interference with the roller.
3 cut throughs along the far left edge may break cutting bits due to board leaving auxiliary roller.
I increased the thickness of my board from .5 to .75. My pattern is 30x 12 and I plan on using a board at least 37x 13 (maybe 13.75). That should eliminate any problems shouldn't it?
( Wow long carve time)

[bergerud]

Looks pretty good. Some extra animals around! I changed the maximum pass depth for the cutouts. Most of use do cutouts in a few passes.

As long as your board is 7 in. longer than the pattern and 13 in. wide you should be good. Choose center on board.

Cannot wait to see it!

[Sliverfoot]

Thank you.
May not get around to running this until next weekend. Workweek and all that stuff ya know. I'll keep you posted

[henry1]

Looks pretty good. Some extra animals around! I changed the maximum pass depth for the cutouts. Most of use do cutouts in a few passes.

As long as your board is 7 in. longer than the pattern and 13 in. wide you should be good. Choose center on board.

Cannot wait to see it!

Well bergerud if a .187 or 2.07 posted would help thx

[bergerud]

Sorry Henry, the original mpc was 3 otherwise I would have done it in 1.187.

[Sliverfoot]

Ok
Ran the pattern today, the carved regions turned out great. I used Aspen, its ok probably should have used a harder wood to get more detail
BUT after an 11 hour carve of the pattern it was time to change bit to the 1/8 cutting. I changed bits hit enter and heard a snap, the cutting bit broke and I got a a z axis error.
What did I do wrong??
I'll do another run of the carve but I have to wait till I get another bit, And I don't want it to happen again.
I did change the board thickness from .5 to .75 but I did that to the pattern before uploading it to the card.

[henry1]

Ok
Ran the pattern today, the carved regions turned out great. I used Aspen, its ok probably should have used a harder wood to get more detail
BUT after an 11 hour carve of the pattern it was time to change bit to the 1/8 cutting. I changed bits hit enter and heard a snap, the cutting bit broke and I got a a z axis error.
What did I do wrong??
I'll do another run of the carve but I have to wait till I get another bit, And I don't want it to happen again.
I did change the board thickness from .5 to .75 but I did that to the pattern before uploading it to the card.

did you tell it to cut 0.250 per pass like burgarud told you

[Sliverfoot]

It was set at .260.

[bergerud]

Too bad. When did it break? Did it start cutting? Did the motor spin up? Could you post a picture?