Vcarve workpiece orientation

[Earle]

Hey guys, I'm having a bit or a mate at the moment with the workpiece in vcarve pro outputting to the machine.

for example if I want to cut along the Y on the machine I have to create my workpiece vertically in VCP

any ideas

Like me you stand to the side of the machine, I just swopped over the X and Y axis where the cables go into the control box. Solves it in 2 seconds

Thus you can design in vCarve in the orientation you prefer.

happy milling




earle

[D-man]

I'm unable to do that due to running 2 motors on the x

[phill05]

draw it in X-axis and rotate into Y-axis

[D-man]

yeah thats what im currently doing but thought i would rather try and fix it so i dont have to mess about

[phill05]

It only takes a couple of key strokes!!

[D-man]

yeah, i get that, but surly you can see im a fussy twat haha

[phill05]

yeah, i get that, but surly you can see im a fussy twat haha

Wait till your asked to design text on one piece at all different angles & upside down and raised & sunken then you might get fussy.

[EddyCurrent]

This is how my machine is, you can see the direction of text on a work piece. When I designed that workpiece on my computer the text would be showing left to right.



So is your's like that ? if so then it's normal.

[D-man]

so its a case of just living with it

[phill05]

If you were doing lots of it the same way then you might want to change but if you are working on different layouts I would say leave as is, quick rotate is select all press Ctrl +9 45 left, Ctrl +0 45 right