In profile mode Mach cuts corners off? Shortest distance issue?

[komatias]

Thanks for the Aspire info. i shall seek out "smooth" and amend.
Cheers

the button looks like an S with a line through it.

I have had this with small jobs too, the finish looked very rough and the machine was very jerky at higher speeds. With the smoothing, because you are actually telling the machine to do circular sector, it interpolates intrinsically and is just so much smoother.

[marbles]

Thanks!

I'm just in Aspire now and using the 'S' fit curves to selected vectors tool. I can see the difference in file size immediately. I just need to remember to tick the 'replace selected vector' box otherwise end up with two files on top of each other.

I see a 'T' tool in vectror curves section of Aspire which is convert objects to curves. Similar or not, or for another day I wonder?

thanks

[komatias]

That is for converting text fonts into curves so you can profile them or edit them like vectors.