I need a 2-foot piece of maple molding for my kitchen cabinets, like the one pictured. Cross section is 3/4" by 15/16". Yeah, I could buy conventional router bits and make it the old-fashioned way by routing the profile into the edge of a board, but here’s a chance for a CNC project. Can this be done in Carbide Create Pro (which I have)?
Yes, you should be able to model that on Carbide Create Pro ---- it would just be a series of rectangles a bit more than 2’ look of appropriate widths which you add and subtract with the correct settings.
Probably easier to draw the profile in a vector drawing or CAD tool, then extrude it in a 3D tool (or just model it directly) and then do the toolpaths using a 3D CAM tool.
Alternately, if it can be multiple pieces it’s “just” a board or two, a piece of quarter round, and a piece of cove molding.
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I can get the cove to happen in CC Pro…but how do you get the roundover portion?
For projects like this I will take a picture of the end of the molding with a ruler in the picture. I will then add that picture into a modeling software and trace the object and scale it correct. I have been able to get very accurate results. Here is a good video on it https://youtu.be/dUiIAb1YqeM
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Thanks for the quick responses. Will’s “extrude” comment makes me wonder…If I take a picture of the end profile, import it as a background in Carbide Create, and trace it using the vector tools, I’ll have a perfect model of the cross section. Can this somehow be “extruded” in Carbide Create Pro? (I’m thinking of the old play-doh toys). Or do I need another piece of software? (I’m not new to Carbide Create, but I am new to CC Pro).
I’m afraid Carbide Create Pro doesn’t have that option (to extrude).
For the roundover you’d need a rectangle which is twice as wide as necessary:
Then you could add the rectangle as an equal height:
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OK…using Will’s technique, I took a shot at this. This is really ugly, but I’m getting the general shapes. It’s REALLY hard to re-edit, once you’ve created the component (pressed “Done”), and changing the size of the shape after you’ve created the component doesn’t seem to resize the component (like toolpaths do), so I couldn’t adjust the sizes and widths…but you might get an idea.
Can anyone tell me what those spikes are between boxes? The boxes in the design are all snapped together, so they are not separated at all.
Thanks
Could you post the file and the dimensions or a scale drawing of the profile?
Another thought, you can make a jig to hold the workpiece on its edge as a V, and this way it would be much easier to get the cut you need. Or away from your S3, you can get a router bit that gives you that shape, I have seen router bits on Ali Papa that is similar to your shape.
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This is the way I would go. Turn your Shapeoko into a traditional router table, and find the right bit.
https://www.rockler.com/power-tools/routers/router-bits/molding-router-bits
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“If I had a hammer …” everything would look like a nail! 
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