Making progress but have a couple ?

[SScnc]

I'm making my first serious attempt at machining out of maple and it's looking okay but I have a couple of things I need some advice on...

First, in the pic below you can see to the right of the horses tail that for some reason there are a few ripples. That's the only place that this happened. I'm thinking I either need to make another run but in Y raster or make a box around that area and just try to clean it up (?)

Second, if you look at the perimeter of the profiles of the letters and the horse, it's been left fuzzy. Is there a recommended tool path to go around these outer vectors to clean them up ?

I took these pics while the machine was still running.

I roughed it with a 1/4" EM in three steps at 30 IPM then ran a finish using a 1/8" ball end at 50 IPM in X raster. It's overall size is about 15" x 8-1/2" and about 5/8" deep from a 1" board.

Thanks for advice,

Steve

[Jay C]

What was your allowance for the roughing?
What does the preview show for the same areas you photographed?
The horse tail is too blurred to tell what/how it was cut to produce those grooves.

-Jay

[SScnc]

What was your allowance for the roughing?
-Jay

Hi Jay, the allowance on roughing was 0.02 in "Z Level Roughing"

What does the preview show for the same areas you photographed?
-Jay

The simulation shows the outlines jagged, I realized that this is probably due to my vectors not being smooth. But the simulation showed all else as being perfect, I rotated it all around on the screen and examined it before machining and just now, looks perfect.

The horse tail is too blurred to tell what/how it was cut to produce those grooves.
-Jay

Yeah, sorry about the bad pic. They are actually "ridges" that were left. It was done with a 1/8" ball end in X raster with a tolerance of 0.001 and a step over of 0.0125. I made a box around that area and ran a "Machine Relief" of selected vector (the box) with the same settings on the 1/8" Ball end and it removed most but not all of the ridges, I had to use sand paper on it.

I did this design before doing the NRA logo in my other thread you helped me with and it's vectors (NRA logo) are much smoother and I think it's going to machine better, I hope. I'm going to run finish TP on it soon, I've already done the roughing on it.

Thanks, I'm always looking for constructive criticism and guidance on all this,

Steve