Make sure that your spindle speed is as slow as you can go with it. I found to get a neat clean cut with plastics, I have to turn the speed way down. The feed can be fast. You want to get nice chips. If you go too slow or the spindle speed is too high, the plastic tends to melt at the edges instead of being cut away.
On 2013/04/17 02:58 PM, Marcus Bowman wrote: > Are you creating it in VCarve Pro by using the Quick Engrave tool or the > VCarve tool? > > Regards, > > Marcus > > > > On 17 Apr 2013, at 12:14, Erik Friesen wrote: > >> I am routing some lettering on some small plastic buttons with a .020 ball >> nose feeding at 15 ipm. I am using vcarve pro to create the lettering, >> using Norm West 1L, or a single line font. I am using create profile, on, >> to route the line, and doing two passes, one conventional, one climb, in an >> attempt to minimize the plastic from leaving a curled edge on the cut. It >> isn't working well enough. Really, I need to be cutting this as a vector >> that is .001" wide, and routing it all conventional, as I think this would >> fix the edge problem. Not sure how to get there with Vcarve pro though. >> Any other suggestions out there? >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced >> analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building >> apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use >> our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! >> http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > -- Regards / Groete Marius D. Liebenberg MasterCut cc Cel: +27 82 698 3251 Tel: +27 12 743 6064 Fax: +27 86 551 8029 Skype: marius_d.liebenberg Skype Me^(TM)! <skype:marius_d.liebenberg?call> Get Skype <http://www.skype.com/go/download> and call me for free. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 130417-1, 2013/04/17 Tested on: 2013/04/18 01:36:21 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2013 AVAST Software. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
