# Takes a long time to start carving

**URL:** <https://community.inventables.com/t/takes-a-long-time-to-start-carving/65456>\
**Category:** X-Carve\
**Created:** [December 12, 2018, 12:10pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/takes-a-long-time-to-start-carving/65456 "2018-12-12T12:10:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![MikeBuist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@MikeBuist](https://community.inventables.com/u/MikeBuist)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 12:10pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/takes-a-long-time-to-start-carving/65456/1 "2018-12-12T12:10:41Z")

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In easel I’ve done a design and hit carve and it’s taking a good 10 minutes before it actually starts moving.

Is it my computer sucks or do I have a problem elsewhere?

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**Author:** ![HaldorLonningdal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/haldorlonningdal/32/72377_2.png) [@HaldorLonningdal](https://community.inventables.com/u/HaldorLonningdal)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/takes-a-long-time-to-start-carving/65456/2 "2018-12-12T13:14:40Z")

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Please share your project, it may be due to complex path generation.  
Click Share-\>Public-\>copy URL and click save. Post URL here.

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**Author:** ![MikeBuist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@MikeBuist](https://community.inventables.com/u/MikeBuist)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 1:25pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/takes-a-long-time-to-start-carving/65456/3 "2018-12-12T13:25:31Z")

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Hi Hal

It was due to the number of nodes to calculate I think as I switched to an outline only of the same design and it went through straight away.

Bit pants the a purpose built software can’t cope with a fairly simple picture. I’ll post the outcome on the outline only shortly

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**Author:** ![HaldorLonningdal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/haldorlonningdal/32/72377_2.png) [@HaldorLonningdal](https://community.inventables.com/u/HaldorLonningdal)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 1:35pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/takes-a-long-time-to-start-carving/65456/4 "2018-12-12T13:35:05Z")

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Sharing the project may provide others to chime in on feed rate/depth etc in case there is something to improve in that regard.

In the case of say V-bit carving multiple stepdown/small stepover greatly increase the number of nodes.