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January 14, 2022, 11:11pm
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We do offer video training:
If you’d prefer to work out your problem face-to-face, you can schedule a 30-minute meeting:
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More than anything, we want you to know that we’re ready to help you as much as you need to be successful with your Carbide 3D machines.
We’ve also done various tutorials on various tasks folks have asked about — please let us know what you are having difficulty with and we’ll gladly work up a custom step-by-step tutorial.
Have you seen:
That said, a basic fidget spinner is straight-forward enough that one can make on in Carbide Create:
Job Setup
Stock Size
Width (X) 100mm
Height (Y) 100mm
Units
MM
Document Background
edit to have 5mm spacing
Metric is used since typical bearings (and the one used for this example) are measured in metric.
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Here’s a quick tutorial on doing this.
Start with an engineering drawing for a file you want to recreate, we’ll use the filler strips from:
and open the PDF:
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Note the thickness (0.75 inches) and width (10 inches) and depth (23 inches) and transfer it into job setup — note that width and depth will need to be transposed — and set the material and retract height:
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Draw a rectangle:
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Note that since Carbide Create draws from the center out it is easiest to draw on…
(the title of this post hearkens back to a small book / card which Warren Chappell created, “Let’s make a “B” for Bennet” — I was fortunate to meet Mr. Chappell when he was Artist-in-Residence at UVA on a school field trip when I was young, and he was the author, along with his cousin Oscar Ogg, of a number of books I remember from my youth.)
Note that the below is obsoleted in current versions of Carbide Create by the ability to asymmetrically scale a circle into an oval/ellipse.
Okay, step-b…
While Carbide Create has a number of stars available, some regular stars are not provided:
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Fortunately, it’s pretty straight-forward to draw a regular star:
Draw a circle which is the size of the desired star:
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Draw a rectangle which is taller than the radius of the circle and duplicate it:
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Rotate each angle by either positive or negative:
360° ÷ number of sides/points (5) ÷ 4 == 18° (for a 5 pointed star)
and drag them into alignment at the top center node of …
For feeds and speeds, the defaults in Carbide Create work well for most folks, and were recently updated — see:
and you may find the balance of the e-book of interest.