I am currently working on a project to make a hard plastic piece to form fit inside of a round container, I have the curvature perfect, however, I am having to stand the project up vertical and would prefer to lay it flat… is there a way to accomplish this?
See:
It would be straight-forward to:
Hang on, will walk through that presently.
Or, one can use the profile to just assign a multiplicity of No-offset Contour toolpaths to appropriate depths:
First, open the file and select the geometry in question:
Use Join Vectors to close it:
Yes
Ensure that it is at 0,0:
Export to an SVG:
OK
Check the dimensions:
and adjust the import/extrusion code:
and export as an STL:
curve.stl (10.2 KB)
then import that into Carbide Create Pro:
and then assign toolpaths as appropriate.
Or see:
Still cannot figure it out… too many hours wasted… I am too new to this, I am stuck trying to open this in “OpenSCAD”… it won’t import it… frustrated
I did that, and made a .stl — you can just go straight to downloading that and importing it into Carbide Create Pro as was shown in the links above — or do you not have a Carbide Create Pro license?
You will want to finish modeling the circle:
curve_v7.c2d (196 KB)
Or, if you don’t have Carbide Create Pro, then just create a series of lines which are then cut to the appropriate depth.
Draw up the tool which you wish to use in profile:
and position it relative to the profile of the stock and draw a rectangle to measure it:
Duplicate the line:
and align it against the vertical center of the circle:
and assign it a No Offset Contour to that depth:
Repeat as necessary until one arrives at…
I purchased the Pro version…
Okay then, please let us know how the .c2d file above works.
Thanks… I finally got it! Thanks…whew! I am still in the learning process and this seemed to be a simple task… Thanks again for your help
