Custom Foam Cutting

Hi Guys and Gals
Just wanted to share
How I make custom foam gun cases for customers
using my Shapeoko 5 pro

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Cool, nice job. Thanks for the walk through, I found it very interesting!

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How did you design the gun pocket so that you knew it would be a good fit? (without wasting a bunch of foam doing trials and sneaking up on the final shape?)

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you simply trace the product
Then measure a few spots
but when you trace the shape is the actual shape so all you need to do is measure and make the shape the actual size

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For an example of that sort of thing see:

To get an outline, cut a triangle out of some suitable material taller than the item you wish to trace, putting a circle at a point of it which will hold a pen refill, then use that to trace the outline:

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