Sometime asked me to come up with a batman throwing star bottle opener. So here’s my stab at it. The right wing had a section where the cut was slow and choppy. I’m sure it’s the way I put this together with the spline tool. But I’m not the guru mr. Hatch is. I wonder if he might look n at my gcode and see what i did wrong…or if it can be better?
If you post the DXF or SVG I’ll take a look - probably a bunch of nodes approximating the curve instead of a bezier. Definitely fixable.
Mr Hatch can fix anything!
let me try this. I always have so much trouble uploading. LOL batman throwing star bottle opener v2.dxf (1.0 MB)
james you should do tutorial videos. I’d really love to learn to clean these things up…or better yet, not make them so messy to begin with.
Not trying to jump in the middle of this but…
This is what I see when I open the DXF in both Inkscape and Fusion… Is this just because of the way I have each program set up??
Forgive me, I just always “play along” with things like this to see what I can learn…
nah it’s cool. that was me trying to get it all situated. I’m totally new at this so I really don’t know what i’m doing. I don’t see that when I look at it, but I have no idea how to toggle through the views. I put something down and do something else and poof it’s gone. LOL. I was trying to shrink the outside down without changing the opening/inner geometry. Boy, that’s a mess!
by the way, that’s a great idea…playing along with others to learn. I may try to adopt that as well.
It looks like the stroke width is enormous.
What I do Sometimes is keep it reasonable so I can see it or keep the 2 D design like this with Filled color and No Stroke.
Then when you think your done , switch to outline mode in Inkscape .
Outline mode makes it easy to view and find issues and excessive nodes in curves and tight geometry.
When your ready minimize your view or zoom way down then select the entire screen size to make sure your surrounding areas are free from other objects besides just the one you want. When it’s clear zoom back up, I get rid of the fill and put it stroke only!. And set the stroke thickness to 0.001” inches. It seems to disappear but it’s there if you zoom up. Remember the sketch line is all the cutter software needs to follow. Then I go to Documents and resize it to fit the sketch.only and my settings are in inches.
Curves and circles are where excessive nodes seems to creep in on sketch designs and can give you the choppy results
You’re speaking Chinese man. Lol. That’s how little I know. Sad but true
You need to sit down with the software your gonna use and practice. And run through tutorials to you get the jist of it.
That’s all.
There are a plethora tutorials on INKSCAPE if that’s gonna be your choice.
I’ll look at it tonight. I was on the road driving to & from Erie PA from 730am to 1130pm yesterday - just fell into bed when I got home
Give this one a try, your file was full of open lines and nodes when I opened it with my program, try this one and see if it does better for you. I did it in .dxf.Batman Bottle Opener.dxf (14.7 KB)
When I open this type of file with sheetcam I have to import at a 1 to 10 setting
Yeah I had to sit down and literally have two laptops next to each other and an iPad so I could watch videos, read tutorials and create a design. Now I’m actually figuring out how to move nodes, delete nodes and simplify drawings. This stuff was so frustrating to me in the beginning. But there’s a sense of satisfaction going from idea to drawing to cut.
I didn’t get to it - Microsoft decided I needed to do an update which took 4 hours
So I figured I’d do it while I’m traveling this week - but MS decided I needed to do an update on my travel laptop (Surface) which unfortunately hosed the machine. It’s stuck in an endless “automatic repair & then diagnosing system” loop and can’t boot. (I’m really hating Microsoft’s forced update process now!) Ended up having to go buy a new laptop for travel and get it setup. Still downloading software & doing setups & configs.
@Psdkevin looks like you’re making some progress and getting help from folks here (this community is great for helping each other out )
About 5 years ago I decided go Apple for everything. I got so frustrated with Microsoft products. I quit using anything that had to do with a windows computer. And back in the day (about 15 years ago) I was building PC’s.
I haven’t owned anything except iOS devices and I haven’t been happier. Although I will say it was quite the headache to dual boot two MacBooks for CNC work. But hey, I’m learning to say “what the heck” more often.
Gunny