Is anybody still here?

[Mooselake]

My current project is practicing CNC chip carving, using VCarve Desktop, on a Sainsmart 4040 Pro.  I've been working through several books on non-CNC chip carving and attempting to reproduce the results with VCD's CAD, and learning as I go along.  As with many CNC things it can take a day or more for a 15 minute carve, every project is an attempt to learn something new so there's a lot of trial, error, retrial, and false starts but the average direction seems to be forward.

My latest efforts are reproducing border designs from a Wayne Barton book, currently using variations of v-carved squares, and on my second pass since I forgot to use the actual measurements of my test blocks (a piece of 1x4 which is 80x160mm). No biggy, the drawing is going a lot quicker than the first time.  Each basic design goes into a 2x14 grid of 5mm squares.  Draw one basic element in one square and then flip, rotate, array copy (not always in that order) to fill the whole grid, and then move on to the next style and repeat the process.  VCarving isn't just for text after all