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Workpiece
Preparation
Before carving can begin a number of menu prompts and machine
operations
must be navigated.
The machine will ask if the workpiece
is to Stay Under Rollers.
Keeping
the workpiece
under the top rollers is a way of avoiding
undesirable
snipe
in the cut and maintaining
contact with the Board Tracking
Sensor at all
times.
It is recommended
that this option is used when under the
following
circumstances:
•
Best carving quality is desired
•
The project has routing to or near the ends of the board.
•
The project has cutting to or near the ends of the board.
•
The project is longer than 20 inches and there is carving to the
ends of the board.
If YES to Stay Under Rollers is selected
the machine will automatically
assure that there is 3 1/2" extra length on either side of the project.
In
many cases you will have to account for this extra length by inserting a
longer workpiece
then is shown in the design software.
The other option
is to have the project scaled to the board size while accounting
for the
length needed to keep under rollers.
Most times this will not produce the
desired effect.
Workpiece
size as
shown in the design
software
i iWorkpiece
II
A
shown in the design
B
software
FIGURE19:
GRAPHIC
DESCRIPTION
OF STAY UNDER
ROLLER OPTION (AREAS A&B
ADDED)
The machine will then measure the workpiece.
If the size of the inserted
workpiece
does not match the size of the designed
project then the
machine will prompt for additional
information.
The machine will ask
different
questions
based on if the workpiece
installed in the machine
is
larger or smaller than the project designed
in the software.
If the
workpiece
is smaller than the designed
project, then the options
are:
Scale the project to fit the workpiece
or Load New Board.
If the Scale
option is selected
then options
Center On Board, Jog To Position,
or Place
On Comer are displayed
in order to locate the project on the workpiece.
WARNING:
Be very careful when scaling
down a project at the
machine.
The machine will scale the entire project to the
largest size that will fit the inserted workpiece
while
maintaining
the overall aspect ratio of height to width.
It will
not change the aspect ratio to fit that of the inserted
workpiece.
Scaling down can also lead to undesirable
thinning
of carved elements
that may lead to chip out.
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
CompuCarve
TM
System (Rev 1.6) 09/27/06
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