Vectric - 3D Shape in a dish 

Hey Lee, we're glad that you enjoyed this tutorial :)

Excellent it's good to hear this helped and I'm sure your wife appreciated your made gift!

Thank you!

Thank you Bill!

Glad you got it figured out :)

Thank you Sam!

You are welcome! Thanks!

Thanks!

Hey Jim, unfortunately we don't have a text file version of the tutorials. If it's of any use, you can get the transcript for the video via RU-vid if that's of interest to you? You'll have to bear in mind though that some words may not be the actual words that were said (RU-vid generally does a good job at subtitles, however there are some words that RU-vid just doesn't understand) Nevertheless we'll pass your comments onto our communications team :) Sorry that we couldn't be of anymore help, have a great day!

Hello Michael... Normally if the VCarving will be on any part of the 3D carve we do it after. I say normaly because it does sometimes depend on what you are doing. If the date will land on the flat area around the 3D dish... then it would make sense do it first or after. Not actualy seeing your file it is hard to give advice... but I think your on the right track.

Hello Burton... thanks for the question. The "Multiply" combine mode is a tricky one to get your head around. When we use it in a situation like this we make sure we use a multi dish that is exactly the same positive shape as the dish but scaled to "1"... as you noted. That tapers the edges of the model so that if there are any bits of the model's edge that rise above the dish tuck them inside. It is important to mention that in some cases (because of the nature of the model) it won't make any real difference. "Wouldn't the pixels on the outside edge still be zero height whether or not you change the height or additive mode?" In this case, you are correct... but if you wanted to taper a scene into a dish then this is really important. In the scene case, bake a plane into the positive dish, scale it to 1 and then change it to a multiply component... magically everything outside the dish disappears! I hope something there helps.

Hello J... in the VCarve toolpath form make sure you choose "project toolpath onto 3D model"... it is located at the bottom of the form. This will do all the work for you.

Hi Gary, you would still use 1 as the value for the multiplier in mm. I hope this helps :)

Vectric Ltd will try it thanks

@@garytaylor5646 No problem good luck with your project :)

Hi James, If you could kindly e-mail your file to support@vectric.com with a description of what you are trying to do and hopefully someone should be able to get you moving in the right direction :) Thank you!

Also you may want to watch this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lM_kJQwnFCk.html Hope this helps :)

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Thanks for your question Michael, the best people to help you are our support team. Please contact them directly on support@vectric.com. Please be sure to attach the file you are referring to so that they can advise you on the issue you are seeing. Thanks.