Anyone interested in making some money and generating a tool path for me? The way my design sits now it requires a TON of hand sanding to get the finish I want. I know carbide create is capable of much finer details. I am just not as capable currently. I plan on taking a few “one on one” classes that carbide hosts to refine my programing skills. But, I am not there yet. I’m in a bind and need some assistance faster than I am able to learn.
Maple Face Contour.c2d (608 KB)
This looks to use the technique which I wrote up at:
One thing which will help is to use a larger ball-nosed tool.
The other thing to do would be to blend the paths together — unfortunately, Carbide Create does not have a feature for that, but hang on…
Here’s what it would look like w/ those toolpaths/geometries assigned to a hypothetical 1" ball-nosed tool:
Another consideration is that sandpaper is the wrong tool for material removal — for large planes, a Shinto Saw Rasp is amazing at hogging away material, and leaves a decent surface:
and if you don’t have any good quality, hand-cut rasps, you have a revelation coming:
I keep seeing Liogier and Auriou rasps popping up in my Facebook feed and at Lee Valley:
but haven’t been able to get them by the finance committee yet.
(and they have the Shinto Saw Rasp as well as replacement blades)
Thats awesome information! I have seen many videos of people using the “shinto” rasp. I will grab one and see how it works. Thank you for the tips.
Also, I do have pro. I am just not familiar with the Model shape, and shape parameters and component parameters yet.
This should be pretty quick work in Pro — just experiment with drawing/modeling in it. See:
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Alternately, you could model in some other tool such as Alibre or Blender, then import as an STL.
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