Moulding feature

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

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Best approach for cabinet door panel

2nd paying job on my Pro 5, recreating this cabinet door. The customer has been in the house for 40 years + , the kitchen has a full wall of these doors and doesn’t want to replace so they need the new matching doors. This existing is above the refrigerator which is being replaced by a taller zero freezer so they’re loosing half the height , so the two repros right and left need to be in landscape orientation. Using my calipers I carefully measured and made the model in 3D max. I’m doing a 3D…

Re-creating a molding profile

The topic of (re)creating molding profiles came up at: with an image: [image] and since the tool with a bearing may not be used on our machines, the profile may be re-created with a bit of patience and some No Offset Contour toolpaths w/ appropriate tooling (and of course, if one has an appropriate radius tool, it could be used as noted above. First, import the pixel image: [image] and then re-draw the profile: [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] Using Node editing to ad…

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Using unsupported tooling in Carbide Create: Roundover / Cove / Radius bits

These are usually used in routers for decorative effects in wood: https://www.whitesiderouterbits.com/products/1570 but they are potentially useful for joinery: They are also useful for rounding off parts to allow rotary motion as for a hinged lid. Unfortunately, Carbide Create does not support this endmill geometry — but using the new support for previewing a V endmill when used in a No Offset Contour toolpath, it should be possible to preview them w/ confidence by stacking a series o…