Football theme stencil design using VCarve Pro and RDWorks

I made heavy use of the Mirror copy, Weld, Interactive trim and boundary based Trim tools in VCarve Pro in putting together the design.

I'm trying smaller circles than any of my previous designs at 0.15 inches diameter.

Always remember to zoom in on intersection points in VCarve Pro that have been manually connected using the Validity tool and look for the square with + icon at the intersection points as verification.

Important: If you are experiencing incorrect geometries from imports of DXF files into RDWorks, make sure you go to Main Menu: Config -> File Para Setting and fill in the check boxes for "Import DXF text info" and "Import dxf point". Otherwise, you may get a variety of issues; in this case independent arcs getting connected into closed shapes and a large scaling down occurred. You may also try exporting out of VCarve Pro as an .ai file, which RDWorks can import dependably.


RDWorks: Config -> File Para Setting: check both DXF boxes

Here is what my stylized football object is supposed to look like

and here is a markup of what RDWorks does if the DXF options for  import are not set. The highlighted area shows where RDWorks (upon import) adds a connecting segment between the three shapes at the four "edges".

This was a problem on the Build RVA computer's installation of RDWorks that I was NOT able to reproduce at home on my laptop running Windows 10 and RDWorks V8.01.28. Next week when I am at Build I'm update this post with the RDWorks version installed there.