Hello carvers,
I’ve had my X-carve for a few years now, and aside from a few learning curves with feed rates, and carving into my clamps (haha), I’ve had little problems with it. I’ve actually only broken 2 bits in all that time.
That said, I’m making these bezels that I listed on the projects page, and they are a series of full 360 degree radius cuts, 100% designed in Easel. I could understand if this happened in a Live Trace or something that I imported in, but since all the shapes derived from Easel, I did not expect to have these problems.
What I’ve noticed recently is a glitch or twitch when the cutter is making its laps around the radius. First, just one little one that never really showed up in the carve, but now two at different points in the round, and my last piece ended up being complete trash.
Is there a known problem with the X-carve doing perfect circles? It’s definitely not the material it is cutting, this is in the machine itself.
Thank you for any tips.
