I've been using VCarve Pro 8 with its Drag Knife Gadget for years.
I finally discovered what may be a coding/converting flaw. It took so long because of the shapes I was cutting at the time.


If you have a shape or path with both sharp corners and curves; based on the offset specified, not only does the gadget create the corner actions,
it ALSO converts the curves to a series of line segments and small corners. The bigger the curve radius, the more noticeable these segments are.

I never noticed this because all my curve/corner combo shapes had tight radius curves, where these segments applied were very small.

I noticed it when I went to add sharp corners to a snowboard shape which has large radius curves.

Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon? For curved shapes, specifying a near zero (.0001) offset produces the best results.

I'm going to try to split the paths between the curves and the angles; however, I fear that based on offset, these paths will not align at their start and end points.
Thanks

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