I am trying to match an existing moulding in an old house for a contractor.
These jobs don’t come too often otherwise I would purchase a planer/moulder. For this specific job the contractor only needs 2 LF. So, I thought instead of purchasing a couple $40-$80 router bits I would instead run the 2 lf piece on my Shapeoko XL. The only problem now is I have gotten away with only doing flat work on my machine. I am a noob when it comes to running z-axis jobs. If someone could point me in the right direction that would be great!
What software and bit do you recommend and how would I go about setting this up?
Vcarve has a Moulding toolpath for just this reason. You just feed it a profile and a path (in your case, just a straight line) and it creates the toolpath.
You could do the same thing in something like Fusion 360 to make a solid model and generate toolpaths from that.
I took your picture into Inkscape and converted it to an svg. Then imported it into CC and deleted all the unnecessary parts. I then sized the profile to equal 3 inches from the top profile to the end. Hopefully you can use this for your carving.
Once one has the profile, it’s pretty simple to decide on which tool(s) you will use to cut out the shape, then draw in a series of lines at the appropriate spaces and set them to cut to the correct depths, see:
Guy, unfortunately, I came up with a blank file. I greatly appreciate your time and effort to go as far as to create a file. Perhaps I need to update on my end. Let me give that a shot!
Lets try again. I created it in v7 and if opened in v6 it will be blank. I just went and double clicked the file and it opened in v7. If it is blank make sure that I did not open v6. I have both v6 and v7 and until I went into apps and changed the default application for c2d files to open v7 v6 wold open and v7 files were blank.
