F Engrave (FREE V CARVING) and 20° V bit info

Dave Rhoten the sign carver on youtube (20+ years) uses Minwax Sanding Sealer on his boards before he carves them, He has a lot of videos on sign carving free hand with a router and finishing technics

Can you take a picture of your bit or post a link to where you bought it? I’ve got a few, but there seem to be many types of V bits.

Thanks.

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@PhilJohnson or @RobertCanning can one of you take a screen shot of your F-Engrave settings, I want to give it a shot

Thanks

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Thanks

Thanks Phil

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It sure will be nice when the V Carve functionality gets added to Easel!

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Is there a good tutorial for getting started with F-Engrave?

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phil, how do you save this and open it on easel?

these are hard to read they’re too small.

thank you sir.

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what font is this and did you get it?

google chrome does not support windows xp and vista?
i can not get the 3d view on the right side of easel.

after i did my set up and click carve i got this message.
“there is nothing to carve. there are no object in your design that can be carved with your current settings.”

i was going to carve all text.
but when i did the symbol and below it was text
and my bit is 1/8" it did the carve but it went too deeper than
i set it up.

so to use the 20° V bit it must be done on f-engrave then
import g-code to easel. what font was used on yours?

so, save it on f-engrave in a file and put it in the computer then import it in easel from the computer file/folder?
can an end ball mill bit use also on f-engrave?

A ball endmill can be used, just select it under Settings -> V-Carve Settings.

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This is documented as a known error in UGS but it’s also listed as fixed .
Are there any special characters in the comment line? That was also listed as triggering the error.

If you turn off the video progress indicator (Plot during v-varve calculation) it speeds up a fair amount.

Sorry for the throwback question: why did you change the header code?
Mine came with this but I’m not sure what it means:
G17 G64 P0.001 M3 S3000

I don’t know what a relay is… so I should change S3000? I’m trying to import into Easel.

I tried UGS but … should I add G28 into the Fengrave gcode after I set it using G28.1? I don’t have limit switches or a bump stop-- I use Charley’s touchplate to find the zero edge. After I home it’s going relative to the machine zero, I think, but I’m not sure how to fix it.

This is my initial code:
G90
G20
G17 M3 S3000

Thanks!