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I just saw an add for 50% off for makers with Solidworks. Usually $48 per year, which I think is great. But itās $24 now through January 10. Thereās a code on their site, I found it through the main site, menu - solutions - makers. Then thereās two packages to choose from.
EOYMAKER50 is the coupon code.
Iāll likely do it to try it out this year.
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I havenāt used freecad for vbit stuff but here is a tutorial for doing it in freecad.
Seems pretty neat I am still only doing 2d stuff.
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Whereās the third type? Or are you in the camp that donāt understand binary? 
[Pedantic rant- 10, 01, 00 presumably 11 is also possible but not specified. so missing at least one type for that input]
Pedantic rant #10 -
00 = 0
01 = 1
10 = 2
11 = 3
The joke is that there are 2 types of people, therefore there are 10 types of people (not 0, 1 or 3 types of people).
But as the saying goes, if you have to explain a joke, it isnāt funnyā¦
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LOL - Thereās two types of people. Those who understand how to work with partial information.
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I have not looked recently but I think Fusion canāt do true V-carve toolpaths, where the Vbit goes up and down to fill the span between sketch contours, right? I believe it just does 2D engraving ā true? And still no V bits in the tool database, just chamfer and engraving bits.
Itās been a while but I think what I did was a chamfer bit with the tip set to like 0.001", and it did seem to be a ārealā vcarve, with various widths set by the bit height.
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Yep, that looks like a proper V-carve. Lovely!
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That is a great font for it as well!
It was a trace of a hand carved old sign, but thanks, it was perfect for a v-carve!
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