Cutting an arc in the Y/Z Plane

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

In theory one could program G2/G3 arcs to do this by hand — in practice, it’s tedious beyond reason since Grbl doesn’t support loops and variables.

There are a number of programmatic tools:

https://wiki.shapeoko.com/index.php/Programming

I tried to do this sort of thing using OpenSCAD and was scolded for creating objects with untold numbers of triangles which brought the program to a standstill.

A bit more workable option would be to model the neck in Carbide Create’s Pro 3D modeling mode which is currently free for 1 yr.:

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Or, use a more conventional 3D CAD and CAM toolstack: https://wiki.shapeoko.com/index.php/Online_resources#Guitars