Hi All:
Happy New Year 2018.
Ive put a new release online with a version of Vexx with a guilloche wizard
I designed to decorate a faceplate with. This module was a suggestio
n from a user
and I found it a fun thing to add. I use it for laser engraving but it can
be used for VBit engraving as well.
A video is available at
https://youtu.be/CV0rK64cas0 to show how it works.
Notes:
Vexx's database has been rewritten because it was unable to handle the too
numerous entries all of the reference
s I was creating for the trimming and
snapping routines. This update has made it orders of magnitude faster, but
it is possible bugs exist and crashes can happen while I get it sorted and more
use shows its bugs. The menu item for reset/reset all will rebuild a database
if you find snapping is acting up, save often and it should be fine.
Radius fillet is also a new tool on the bar.
When you generate a guilloche, it is converted to arcs and/or beziers where it can, this is a work in progress, ensure your arc tolerance in settings is .05 or less else arcs may appear that do not seem to smoothly connect in the drawing. I leave beziers turned off
in the settings as the fastpath works better with line segments . You may use bezier
conversio
n though, but it takes a few seconds to compute them on each step
and your cad may or may not have issues with Vexx's beziers. The settings for
allow bezier/arc are also in the config settings under polylines
.
Thx,
Art