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You can do it by just telling CC that your bit is really narrow, like 0.02" diameter, and have it plunge 0.10" (or whatever you think is a good spring load on the diamond tip). If it is not spring loaded, have it plunge a very small amount 0.01" or so and adjust as necessary.

Ahem, thanks Will.

I'll give it another shot before I contact support. :-) Here is a V2.3 board with the capacitor installed. Carbide V2.3.jpg Here is the V2.1 board like I have, with solder pads in the same location. Carbide V2.1.jpg Before I put a cap in that location, I just want to double-check to see if anyone el...

I moved my SO3 into a spare bedroom, since it is only going to be doing diamond drag engraving from now on, and it happens to be near a small refrigerator, and last night it disconnected twice when the fridge stopped running. The control board is V2.1, and I watched a video where someone showed wher...

If I am stuck, I just start googling for images of what I think I am looking for.

Maybe try doing an image search for corner flourishes and see if anything gets the ideas flowing.

It's not a bracket, but a start.

This is not specific to the Hershey Text, but when I am importing an SVG from Inkscape into makercam, if I import the SVG with a bunch of individual paths (like a bunch of circles for drilling holes or individual letters of a phrase. . .) they will come in in almost random places. What I learned (I ...

Well, the great thing about buying Vectric V-Carve Desktop is there is no monetary penalty for buying it vs. the pro version first. I recently bought the desktop version a couple of weeks ago, but due to an unfortunate loss of my vacuum system, I am kind of dead in the water for cutting anything tha...

I use peck drilling (0.050" peck depth I believe) for both my 0.1250" and 0.0781" holes. I use solid carbide 0.1250" drill bits and 0.0781" carbide drill bits made for drilling circuit boards, but they work fine and don't create any tear-out or splinters in bamboo, maple, cherry, padauk, purpleheart...

What software are you using to create those? They look great!

V-Carving is a completely different way of cutting compared to using straight (constant diameter) bits. With a constant diameter bit, you pick the bit diameter to determine the single cut line width. You want a line 0.063" wide, put in a 0.063" bit. (ignoring runout and other physical factors) You w...